iThenticate compares every submitted paper to a massive database of content from over 90,000 major newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and books as well as a database of over 17 billion current and archived pages of web content. In addition, iThenticate checks materials from over 70,000 scholarly journals and more than 150 STM publishers.

All new submissions are automatically screened by Editorial Office using iThenticate. The editorial board of ERU IIBFD journal complies with the following rules for plagiarism policy:

•  The articles with an overall similarity index of greater than 20% are rejected without proceeding for the formal peer review. In such cases, the author(s) will be asked to re-revise the article within three weeks.

• Similarity index for single source must be equal to or lower than 3%.

• Editors may also choose to run a similarity report at any other point during the review process or post-publication.

The above mentioned rules are accepted by all authors who have uploaded articles to the Journal.