The Plagiarism Screening Service ensures that manuscripts submitted to your journal are evaluated for originality and textual similarity before proceeding further in the publication process. Within this service, the iThenticate plagiarism detection system is used to identify potential ethical risks such as plagiarism, self-plagiarism, textual overlap, duplication, and improper source use at an early stage.
Originality is a fundamental requirement in academic publishing and a key component of scientific reliability. Authors may, intentionally or unintentionally, submit manuscripts containing substantial similarities with previously published works. Therefore, similarity screening before peer review or publication decision is an essential part of editorial quality control.
As part of this service, manuscripts are screened through iThenticate, a widely used plagiarism detection system in academic publishing. The system compares submitted manuscripts against scholarly publications, databases, web sources, and publisher content to generate a similarity report.
The resulting reports are evaluated not only in terms of the overall similarity percentage, but also with regard to the source, concentration, citation context, and whether the detected similarities may raise ethical concerns.
This service strengthens your journal’s publication ethics standards and supports the early detection of potential ethical violations before publication. It contributes to the journal’s academic reliability, editorial quality control, and compliance with indexing expectations. It also helps maintain a transparent, trustworthy, and ethically responsible publishing environment for authors, editors, reviewers, and readers.