Manuscript with plagiarism* and / or self-criticism detected in the evaluation of the editor in Value in Health Sciences will not be taken. During the file upload process, authors are required to upload the similarity report obtained by using iThenticate plagiarism program to the system together with other files.

Manuscript with a similarity rate of more than 25% and reporting more than 3% from a single article will be accepted as plagiarism and rejected.

^{*Plagiarism is the use of others' published and unpublished ideas or words (or other intellectual property rights) without reference or permission and presented as new and original rather than from an existing source. Self-criticism means that an author uses parts of his previous writings on the same topic elsewhere in his publications, especially without quoting them.}