Plagiarism Policy

J. Sport Mov. Sci. (JSMS) is fully committed to the principles of academic integrity and publication ethics. All manuscripts submitted to the journal are evaluated for plagiarism and similarity, and a zero-tolerance policy is applied to ethical violations at all stages of the publication process.

All submitted manuscripts are screened using Turnitin, iThenticate, or other reliable similarity detection software. Manuscripts with a total similarity index exceeding 20% are not considered for editorial evaluation and are returned to the authors.

Authors are required to upload a similarity (plagiarism) report as a supplementary file at the time of manuscript submission. Manuscripts submitted without a similarity report will not be taken into the review process.

Even if the total similarity index is below 20%, manuscripts may be rejected if:

• A high similarity rate is detected from a single source,

• Text is reproduced verbatim or substantially without proper citation,

• Excessive similarity is identified particularly in the introduction, discussion, or conclusion sections.

References, commonly used methodological expressions, and universally accepted definitions may be qualitatively assessed by the editors and, where appropriate, excluded from the similarity evaluation. However, this does not justify unethical use of text.

In cases where plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, or other forms of unethical behavior are identified at any stage of the review or publication process, the manuscript will be rejected. If such issues are discovered after publication, the article will be retracted, and relevant institutions may be notified if deemed necessary.

By submitting a manuscript to JSMS, all authors declare that their work is original, prepared in accordance with scientific and ethical standards, and that they accept and comply with this plagiarism policy.