Plagiarism Policy

Genius Journal of Nursing (GJN) is committed to maintaining high standards of originality, academic integrity, and scientific novelty. All manuscripts submitted to the journal, including revised versions, are screened for plagiarism before entering the peer-review process using recognized similarity detection software such as Turnitin

A similarity index of less than 20% is generally considered acceptable. However, editorial evaluation does not rely solely on percentage thresholds. The Editors carefully assess the nature, context, and location of the similarity identified in the manuscript.

Manuscripts submitted to GJN must meet the following standards:

Authors must ensure that their work is original and properly cites the work and ideas of others.
Proper paraphrasing should be used when referring to previously published material. Authors should avoid copy-and-paste practices and rewrite referenced content in their own words where appropriate.
Direct quotations must be clearly indicated and properly cited according to accepted academic writing standards.
All sources, whether published or unpublished, written or oral, must be appropriately acknowledged.
Plagiarism in any form, including self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, or the uncredited use of text, data, figures, or ideas, is strictly prohibited.

Manuscripts found to contain substantial plagiarism or unethical similarity may be rejected during the editorial screening stage or peer-review process. If plagiarism or unethical similarity is discovered after publication, the journal will take appropriate corrective actions in accordance with its Publication Ethics and Research Misconduct Policy, which may include correction, expression of concern, or retraction of the article.

Through this policy, Genius Journal of Nursing (GJN) seeks to uphold the integrity, credibility, and reliability of the scholarly record.

Screening for Plagiarism

Articles submitted to Genius Journal of Nursing (GJN) will be filtered using Turnitin software, with a maximum of 20% similarities permitted.

Plagiarism includes:

Word-for-word plagiarism – borrowing another author’s language word-for-word but not putting it in quotation marks or citing it correctly.
Source plagiarism – using the ideas of others without giving recognition or citing the source explicitly.
Plagiarism of authorship – presenting another author's work as one’s own.
Self-plagiarism - authors publishing an article in more than one journal by recycling papers. The important issue related to self-plagiarism is that when citing one's own work, significant changes must have been made to the new article. The previous article should only contain a small percentage of any new article produced. So readers will receive new information, which may be inspired by but different from the previous articles.