Plagiarism & Similarity Screening

All submitted manuscripts are subject to similarity screening.

The journal uses:

[iThenticate / Turnitin / other service actually used]

Similarity scores are used as an editorial aid and are not automatically interpreted as plagiarism.

Editors consider:

• location of matching text;
• source of matches;
• extent of overlap;
• citation and attribution;
• methodological terminology;
• standard scientific expressions; and
• reuse of previously published material.

If the journal adopts a numerical guideline, state:

Similarity Guideline: [XX%]

The final determination of plagiarism is based on editorial assessment rather than a percentage alone.

 

Related Policies:
Research Misconduct | Publication Ethics | Author Guidelines