Screening For Plagiarism
Papers submitted to Educational Invention and Development Studies (EIDS) will be screened for plagiarism using Turnitin/iThenticate plagiarism detection tools. EIDS will immediately reject papers indicating plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
Before submitting manuscripts to reviewers, each submission is checked for similarity/plagiarism by a member of the editorial team. Manuscripts submitted to EIDS must have a similarity level below 25%.
Plagiarism refers to presenting another person’s ideas, findings, or words as one’s own, without permission, acknowledgment, or proper citation. It includes a wide range of practices, from literal copying to inappropriate paraphrasing. To assess potential plagiarism, EIDS emphasizes several possible forms:
- Literal copying occurs when an author reproduces another author’s work word-for-word, in whole or in part, without permission, acknowledgment, or citing the original source. This type of plagiarism is identifiable by comparing the original text with the suspected manuscript.
- Substantial copying refers to reproducing a significant portion of another author’s work without proper permission, acknowledgment, or citation. “Substantial” may refer to both quantity and quality, especially concerning the intellectual value of the copied section in relation to the overall work.
- Paraphrasing without citation involves taking ideas, wording, or phrasing from a source and rewriting them into new sentences. This becomes unethical when the original work or author is not cited or acknowledged. This form of plagiarism is more difficult to detect because the wording may be altered while the underlying ideas remain copied.
