Plagiarism Policy

Epistemic Journal: The editorial board of the Educational Scientific Journal recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) after identifying plagiarism/similarities in articles submitted for publication on Epistemic. Epistemic will use the Turnitin originality check software as a tool in detecting similarities in the text in the article manuscript and the final version of the article that is ready for publication. A maximum of 20% similarity is allowed for submitted papers. If we find more than 20% of the similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission.

Plagiarism Rate

Minor: Short sections of other articles are plagiarized without significant data or ideas taken from other papersAction: A warning is given to the author and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made

Intermediate: Most papers are plagiarized without proper citations for the original paperAction: Submitted articles are rejected and authors are prohibited from submitting further articles for one year

Severe: Most papers are plagiarized that involve reproductions of original results or ideas presented in other publicationsAction: Papers are rejected and authors are banned from submitting further articles for five years.

It is understandable that all authors are responsible for the content of the papers they submit because they all read and understandthe Copyright and Epistemic License Terms. If a penalty is imposed for plagiarism, all writers will be subject to the same penalty.