Prevention of Plagiarism

JNT adopts a similarity cutoff of 24%, excluding the bibliography and the similarity rates of less than 1%. Papers will be considered ineligible for further processing if they are detected to exhibit a similarity rate of over 24% and/or Editor gathers that the paper incorporates plagiarism.

For a published study detected or reported to contain plagiarism, JNT follows the following steps:
– 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.
– If the report confirms plagiarism, the plagiarized study is removed from JNT’s website and third-party websites where the study is indexed.
– In order to take strict measures regarding the authors, heads of the institutions to which the authors are affiliated are contacted.
– JNT will reject or permanently ban future studies by the authors for two years.
– JNT will disclose these authors on JNT's homepage (https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/jnt).
Additionally, JNT consults with other academic journals to fight plagiarism.

Plagiarism Types

JNT considers the following types of plagiarism:

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