Amesia adopts a similarity rate cutoff of 24%, excluding the bibliography and minor matches of fewer than nine words. Papers with an iThenticate similarity rate exceeding 35% are considered ineligible for further processing. Even if the overall similarity rate is below 24%, the Editor may reject the paper if clustered, patterned, or thematic similarities indicate plagiarism. In cases where the similarity rate falls between 24% and 35%, the author(s) are invited to revise and re-upload the paper in order to reduce the similarity rate.

Papers under review (submitted but unpublished) that are found to contain plagiarism are rejected without further evaluation. For a published study detected or reported to contain plagiarism, Amesia follows the steps below:

– A Plagiarism Research Team (PRT) is formed from the members of the editorial board.

– The PRT investigates the study detected/reported to contain plagiarism and the plagiarized original study/studies and prepares a report on this issue. The author(s) are informed of the findings and are given 15 days to submit a written explanation or justification.

– If the report confirms plagiarism, the plagiarized study is removed from Amesia’s website and third-party websites where the study is indexed. In line with international publishing standards, retracted articles remain accessible for the scholarly record and are clearly labeled as “Retracted Article”. Author information is not concealed.

– In order to take strict measures regarding the authors, heads of the institutions to which the authors are affiliated are contacted.

– Amesia may reject future submissions by the author(s) for a period of two to five years, depending on the severity of the violation. Amesia reserves the right to permanently ban future submissions by the author(s) in severe cases.

–Amesia may disclose these authors on Amesia's homepage (https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/amesia).

Additionally, Amesia consults with other academic journals to fight plagiarism. 

Amesia considers the following types of plagiarism:

– Complete or Global Plagiarism is when authors submit a paper prepared/published by someone else under their names.

– Direct Plagiarism is copying a section verbatim from another published source without citation and quotation marks.

– Mosaic or Patchwork Plagiarism means creating a new text by combining words, sentences, or ideas in various studies.

– Paraphrasing Plagiarism means writing a new sentence/text with the same meaning with some minor changes, such as using the synonyms of words in a source text.

– Self- or Auto-Plagiarism happens when authors intentionally or unintentionally use parts of their studies without referencing them.

– Accidental Plagiarism occurs when authors unintentionally avail of ideas in another source without proper referencing.

– Source-based Plagiarism implies citing only one of the two information sources and citing a non-existent or incorrect study.

– Duplicate Publication refers to authors’ or publishers’ multiple submissions or publishing of the same findings and/or intellectual materials.