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 general similarity rate of the article must be 25% or less. At this stage, articles with a general similarity rate of more than 25% are returned to the author without entering the arbitration process.
- 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.