Plagiarism Policy

 The editorial board of PETIR recognizes that plagiarism is strictly unacceptable. Therefore, we have established the following policy stating specific actions and penalties upon the identification of plagiarism or high similarities in articles submitted for publication.

PETIR uses Turnitin's originality checking software as the primary tool for detecting text similarities in article manuscripts and the final version of articles ready for publication. A maximum of 20% similarity index is allowed for the submitted papers. Should we find more than 20% of the similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission.

 

Level of Plagiarism

 

Minor Plagiarism

A short section of another article is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper.

Action: A warning is given to the authors, and a request is made to change the text and properly cite the original article.

 

Intermediate Plagiarism

A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper.

Action: The submitted article is rejected, and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles to this journal for one year.

 

Severe Plagiarism

A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results, data, or ideas presented in another publication.

Action: The paper is rejected, and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles to this journal for five years.

 

Author Responsibility

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted paper, as they are required to read and understand the Copyright Notice and Publication Ethics of the journal. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all co-authors will be subject to the same penalty.