Screening for Plagiarism Policy

Eduprofer: Journal of Education and Professional Teacher is committed to maintaining academic integrity and does not tolerate plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct.

All submitted manuscripts may be screened for plagiarism and text similarity using appropriate plagiarism detection software before or during the peer-review process. The screening is conducted to identify substantial similarities with previously published works, including journal articles, books, conference proceedings, online publications, and other academic sources.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts are original and that all ideas, statements, data, quotations, and materials derived from other sources are properly acknowledged and cited.

If substantial plagiarism or inappropriate text reuse is identified during the initial screening, the manuscript may be returned to the authors for clarification or revision, or rejected without proceeding to peer review. If plagiarism is discovered after publication, the journal may take appropriate editorial action, including issuing a correction, publishing a retraction, or removing the article from the journal's publication record when necessary.

Similarity reports are interpreted by the editorial team in the context of the manuscript. A similarity percentage alone does not automatically determine whether plagiarism has occurred, as legitimate quotations, references, technical terminology, and commonly used expressions may contribute to text similarity.

The final decision regarding suspected plagiarism or academic misconduct rests with the editorial team and will be made in accordance with the journal's Publication Ethics and applicable standards of responsible scholarly publishing.