Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care is extremely sensitive to plagiarism. All submissions are screened by a similarity detection software at any point during the peer review and/or production process. Even if you are the author of the phrases or sentences, the text should not have an unacceptable similarity to previously published data. Manuscripts with a similarity rate of more than 15% in total (>5% from a single source) will be returned to the author for correction. References section and similarities of less than 3 words will not be considered. In some manuscripts, similarities in the materials and methods sections may not be taken into consideration according to the editor's decision.
In case of alleged or suspected research misconduct such as plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, the Editorial Board will follow the COPE (CC BY-NC-ND) guidelines and act accordingly.