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Plagiarism Screening Policy
Manuscripts submitted to the IJESSR Journal will be screened for plagiarism using the Turnitin plagiarism detection tool. The IJESSR Journal will immediately reject any manuscript found to contain plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
Before being sent to reviewers, manuscripts are first checked for similarity or plagiarism by a member of the editorial team. Manuscripts submitted to the IJESSR Journal must have a similarity rate of less than 25%.
Plagiarism is the act of presenting another person’s ideas or words as one’s own, without permission, attribution, or acknowledgment, or due to a failure to properly cite sources. Plagiarism can take various forms, ranging from verbatim copying to paraphrasing another person’s work. To accurately assess whether an author has committed plagiarism, we emphasize the following situations:
- An author can literally copy another author’s work- by copying word by word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledge or citing the source. This practice can be identified through comparing the source and the manuscript/work who is suspected of plagiarism.
- Substantial copying implies for an author to reproduce a substantial part of another author, without permission, acknowledge or citation. The substantial term can be understood both in terms of quality as quantity, being often used in the context of Intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text in proportion to the work as a whole.
- Paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words or phrases from a source and crafting them into new sentences within the writing. This practice becomes unethical when the author does not properly cite or does not acknowledge the original work/author. This form of plagiarism is the more difficult form to be identified.
