Plagiarism Screening

All submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism and text overlap with similarity detection software before peer review. Authors should upload the similarity report with their submission.

• The overall similarity should be no more than 20%, excluding references, and no single source should account for a large share of the text.
• Manuscripts that exceed this limit are returned to the authors for revision or rejected.
• Suspected plagiarism found after publication is handled under the Correction, Retraction, and Research Misconduct policy.