Originality, Plagiarism, and Similarity Policy

The Journal of Educational Research and Practice (JERP) requires all submitted manuscripts to represent original scholarly work and to acknowledge all sources appropriately.

Manuscripts must not contain plagiarism, inappropriate text recycling, duplicate publication, fabricated references, or unattributed use of ideas, data, figures, tables, images, instruments, or other scholarly material.

Originality

Submitted manuscripts must not have been published previously in substantially the same form or be under consideration by another journal.

Authors must disclose any closely related prior dissemination, including preprints, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports, or previous publications derived from the same study.

Plagiarism and Textual Reuse

Plagiarism includes the unattributed use of another person’s words, ideas, data, arguments, findings, or other intellectual contributions.

Reuse of authors’ own previously published material must also be appropriately acknowledged. Limited overlap in standard methodological descriptions or technical terminology may be acceptable where justified, but substantial reuse of previously published intellectual content requires clear citation and disclosure.

Similarity Screening

Submitted manuscripts may be screened using similarity-detection software.

JERP does not use a fixed similarity percentage as an automatic criterion for acceptance or rejection.

Similarity reports are treated as screening tools. Editors assess the source, extent, location, nature, attribution, and context of textual overlap.

A high similarity score does not automatically indicate plagiarism, and a low similarity score does not exclude plagiarism or inappropriate reuse.

Author Responsibilities

Authors are responsible for ensuring that:

all sources are accurately cited;
direct quotations are clearly identified;
previously published material is properly acknowledged;
related publications are disclosed;
references are genuine and verified; and
the manuscript does not misrepresent previously published material as original research.

Authors must not manipulate wording, formatting, or document structure in order to circumvent similarity-detection systems.

Generative AI

The use of generative AI does not remove authors’ responsibility for originality, attribution, accuracy, and research integrity.

AI-assisted content must not introduce plagiarised material, fabricated references, misleading paraphrases, or unattributed reuse of existing sources. Substantive use of generative AI must comply with JERP’s Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies Policy .

Editorial Action

Where potentially problematic overlap is identified, JERP may request clarification or revision, require additional citation or attribution, reject the manuscript, or take other action in accordance with the journal’s Publication Ethics .

Concerns identified after publication may result in correction, expression of concern, retraction, or other appropriate action, depending on the seriousness of the case.

Similarity alone does not determine misconduct; editorial decisions are based on the nature and context of the identified overlap.