Plagiarism Policy
All new submissions are automatically screened by Editorial Office using iThenticate. The editorial board of Journal of Selcuk Communication complies with the following rules for plagiarism policy:
• The articles with an overall similarity index of greater than 15% 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%.
• “Exclude Bibliography: ON, Exclude Quotes: OFF, Exclude Matches: OFF" must be selected for iThenticate report.
• Editors may also choose to run a similarity report at any other point during the review process or pre-publication.
• In addition, -regardless of the rate of similarity- in case of any expression and/or blocks of similarities taken from a source and not referring to the relevant source, the work is returned to the author without being taken into the evaluation process.
The above mentioned rules are accepted by all authors who have uploaded articles to the Journal.
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