Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Policy

Submitted articles must be original. Articles should not have been published in any other medium and should not be under review in any other journal. The journal will not accept plagiarized work. In particular;

Changing or paraphrasing more than one sentence within a paragraph or section of text without proper citation according to scientific rules,

Reusing elements of another's work without citing the source (e.g., figures, tables, statistical data, or article organization, etc.).

Self-plagiarism: When submitting the article to the journal's official website, the author(s) will indicate that the work has not been previously published. Authors should refer to their previous work and indicate how the subsequent work differs from and is based on the conclusions and reasoning of the previous work.

Authors are encouraged to use a similarity program to check their work prior to submission.

Each submitted manuscript will be reviewed by the editorial team using different similarity programs.

The similarity rate should not exceed 15% in the manuscripts submitted to the journal.

If plagiarism is detected, the COPE policy on "Plagiarism in a submitted manuscript" and "Plagiarism in a published manuscript" will be followed.