PLAGIARISM SCREENING

Papers submitted to the Journal of Economics and Entrepreneurship (JEKU) will be screened for plagiarism using the Turnitin plagiarism detection tool. The journal will immediately reject any papers that indicate plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
Before sending an article to reviewers, the editorial team thoroughly checks it for similarity using plagiarism detection tools. Papers submitted to JEKU must maintain a similarity index of less than 25%, with the similarity score for any single source not exceeding 3%.

Plagiarism involves presenting someone else's thoughts or words as your own without permission, credit, acknowledgment, or proper citation of the source. Plagiarism can take various forms, ranging from literal copying to paraphrasing another person's work. To accurately assess whether an author has plagiarized, the editorial board emphasizes the following potential situations:
  • Literal copying occurs when an author directly copies another author's work—word for word, in whole or in part—without permission, acknowledgment, or source citation. This practice is identified by comparing the original source with the allegedly plagiarized manuscript or work.
  • Substantial copying implies that an author reproduces a significant portion of another writer's work without permission, acknowledgment, or citation. The term substantial is understood in terms of both quality and quantity, concepts often applied in intellectual property. Quality refers to the relative value of the copied text proportional to the work as a whole.
  • Improper paraphrasing involves taking ideas, words, or phrases from a source and restructuring them into new sentences within a text. This practice becomes unethical when the author fails to properly cite or acknowledge the original work or author, making this particular form of plagiarism more challenging to identify.