After considering the referee reports and the plagiarism report of "iThenticate: Plagiarism Detection Software", Editorial Board decides whether to publish

the article or not. 

The rules taken into consideration in the similarity ratio determination process are as follows:
- The manuscript’s overall similarity index must not exceed 30% including quotations and/or 15% excluding quotations. In addition, the similarity rate with any single source must not exceed 2%. At this stage, manuscripts with an overall similarity index exceeding 30% including quotations and/or 15% excluding quotations will be returned to the author without being sent for peer review.
- Bibliographic materials (bibliography, citations, etc.) are not included in the scan.
- Editors can check the similarity during-after the arbitration process at each time of the publication process.
- The above-mentioned rules are assumed to be accepted by all authors applying for articles.