Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Policy

All manuscripts under review or published with EJAS are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software called Turnitin. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. Other violations include duplicate publication, data fabrication and falsification, and improper credit of author contribution.  Thus, Plagiarism or Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour are unacceptable and submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. It is necessary to mention that EJAS Journal may ignore a duplicated manuscript of up to 20%. The development of CrossCheck is a service that helps editors to verify the originality of papers using software called Turnitin. 

All new submissions to many EJAS are automatically screened using CrossCheck. Editorial Board Member may also choose to run a similarity report at any other point during the review process or post-publication. The default similarity report view gives the percentage of the text of the manuscript which has overlap with one or more published articles.