Submitting parts of my thesis to a journal, overlapping text fragments: self-plagiarism? I am currently working on my thesis and I am submitting a part of my thesis as a paper to a journal (same text no rephrasing in some parts). I believe the journal review takes about four to six months before it is published and my thesis will be published on my university website before that. When they check for plagiarism and they find a match between my paper and my thesis, will they reject it?
It is only (self-)plagiarism when you do not indicate that some text is being reused. 

So there is a simple remedy: Add to your thesis some text that indicates which parts have been submitted where. This could be formulated for example as:


  This chapter has been submitted to journal as authors, title