Plagiarism Screening
All manuscripts submitted to Journal Nursing Research Publication Media (NURSEPEDIA) must be original works and must not have been previously published elsewhere. The journal implements a plagiarism screening policy by using iThenticate Similarity Check to detect potential textual overlap.
However, similarities may occur due to legitimate paraphrasing in manuscript preparation. Therefore, the determination of plagiarism is proposed to be based more on the extent of similar sentences rather than solely relying on the overall similarity percentage. The similarity percentage can be useful as an initial screening tool, but it is not sufficient as the sole indicator of plagiarism.
Given various limitations in automated similarity detection, a qualitative and in-depth assessment of each manuscript is considered essential. This approach is based on four main considerations:
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Overreliance on word count or manuscript length, which may distort similarity results.
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The inclusion of legitimate textual similarities that should not be considered problematic but are still counted in similarity reports.
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The potential failure to detect paraphrased plagiarism, where wording is changed but the original meaning is retained, leading to misleading similarity scores.
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The resulting similarity percentage may therefore be ambiguous and insufficiently accurate in determining the actual level of plagiarism.
Consequently, Journal Nursepedia emphasizes critical editorial evaluation rather than strict dependence on numerical similarity thresholds when assessing potential plagiarism.
