We accept all terms and conditions of COPE about plagiarism and in case, any attempt of plagiarism is brought to our attention accompanied by convincing evidence, we act based on flowcharts and workflows determined in COPE.
All submissions will be checked with Plagiarism software (iThenticate™) in two different stages (New Submission and After Acceptance).
Articles with a similarity rate of more than 25% in total (>5% from single source) will be sent back to the author for correction. References section and similarities of less than 3 words will not be considered. In some manuscripts, materials and methods sections may also not consider in evaluation of the similarity in accordance with editors' decisions.