The similarity rate control of the candidate articles sent to the e-Kafkas Journal of Educational Research is done with the Ithenticate software program. Authors have to upload the similarity rate file. Articles with a similarity rate of more than 15%, excluding references, are returned to the authors. The corresponding author must also upload the similarity rate statement file and declare that the candidate article does not have any plagiarism problems. Thus, it is ensured that all responsibility is on the authors in case of plagiarism problems.

e-Kafkas Journal of Educational Research is based on the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors. It rejects and does not accept all plagiarism and other unethical behaviors. For this reason, the journal policy of plagiarism behaviors, that is, the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors, cannot be bent. If plagiarism and unethical behaviors, which are the responsibility of the authors, are detected by the journal, the candidate articles are either rejected or returned to the author for editing. If plagiarism or unethical behavior is detected in published articles, author defense is requested for the relevant publication. The publications that are detected to have plagiarism or ethical violations as a result of the author's defense are withdrawn. As a result of the withdrawal process, the relevant publication tag is officially announced by the journal. The editor-in-chief and assistant editors prepare a justification for the article, and the withdrawal procedure is applied to the article with ethical violation. The text file on the web page of a withdrawn article is blocked. The reason for the withdrawal is added to the system as a file so that it remains in the archive permanently.