Articles submitted to The Black Sea Journal of Science are subjected to similarity checks using internationally recognized plagiarism detection programs such as ithenticate, etc. The rules adopted in determining the similarity rate are as follows:
(a) 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.
(b) The similarity rate to a particular source must be less than 3% in the general similarity rate of the article.
(c) Bibliographic materials (bibliography, citations, etc.) are not included in the scan.
(d) Editors can check the similarity during-after the arbitration process at each time of the publication process.
(e) The above-mentioned rules are assumed to be accepted by all authors applying for articles.

The journal will take the following serious measures for published articles that are found to contain plagiarism:
• The journal will immediately contact the university to which the author(s) are affiliated in order to take final action against the related author.
• The journal will remove the PDF copy of the published article from the website, will remove the published article from the issue file, and will disable all links to the published article. The phrase "Plagiarized Article" will be added to the title of the published article.
• The journal will disable the author's account and reject all future submissions by the author for the following 2 years.