The Editorial Board of the "Journal of Human Rights,Gender Studies & Social Justice" accepts for consideration only original manuscripts that comply with the journal’s requirements concerning publication ethics and research integrity. Submitted manuscripts are screened using iThenticate software to identify textual similarities with previously published and publicly available materials.
The similarity report is assessed by the Editorial Board. The percentage of similarity is used as an initial screening indicator and does not, by itself, constitute proof of plagiarism. The nature, source, extent, and context of all identified matches are taken into account when making an editorial decision.
The journal applies the following similarity thresholds:
- originality above 85% – the manuscript may proceed to peer review, provided that no inappropriate textual borrowing or other ethical concerns are identified;
- originality between 75% and 85% – the manuscript is subject to additional editorial assessment, and the authors may be asked to verify and, where necessary, correct citations, quotations, references, or other instances of textual overlap;
- originality below 75% – the manuscript is normally not accepted for further consideration unless the identified similarity results predominantly from correctly cited material, references, standard terminology, methodological descriptions, or other legitimate forms of textual overlap.
As a general editorial threshold, textual similarity with any single source should not exceed 3%. However, this percentage is assessed in context and does not automatically constitute plagiarism where the overlap is properly quoted, cited, or otherwise justified.
Plagiarism may include verbatim copying without appropriate acknowledgement, substantial paraphrasing without citation, unauthorised use of another person’s ideas, data, results, figures, or other intellectual contributions, as well as other forms of misrepresentation of authorship or originality.
If potentially inappropriate textual overlap is identified before publication, the Editorial Board may request clarification or revision from the authors or reject the manuscript where a serious breach of publication ethics is established.
If suspected plagiarism is identified after publication, the journal will conduct an investigation and give the authors an opportunity to respond. Depending on the nature and seriousness of the violation, the journal may publish a correction, an expression of concern, or retract the article in accordance with its Corrections, Retractions and Expressions of Concern Policy.