- Screening Protocol
|
Stage |
Tool |
Threshold |
|
Submission |
Turnitin |
≤20% similarity |
|
Post-Acceptance |
iThenticate |
≤15% (excl. quotes) |
- Violation Handling
- Minor Cases (>20%): Mandate revision with quotation markup.
- Major Cases (>30%): Immediate rejection + 3-year blacklist.
- Retractions: Marked with CrossMark in PDF.
- Author Guidelines
- Cite ≥50% Scopus-indexed sources.
- Disclose text-recycling from prior work.
- Use AI responsibly (declare tools like ChatGPT in Methods).
- Reviewer Training
- Annual COPE plagiarism-detection workshops.
- Zotero/EndNote certification for citation accuracy checks.