Turnitin tool

Author Guidelines: Similarity Verification

The Journal of Engineering, Sustainability and Society promotes originality, academic ethics, and good scientific publishing practices. To strengthen editorial integrity, submitted manuscripts are analyzed using the Turnitin tool.

The purpose of similarity verification is to ensure the originality of manuscripts and prevent inappropriate matches with other academic or documentary sources. The journal establishes a similarity index of 17% or lower as a reference threshold.

• Conduct a preliminary review of the manuscript, ensuring the proper use of citations and bibliographic references.
• Consider that similarity may arise from direct quotations, inadequate paraphrasing, or overlaps with previous publications.
• Use similarity-checking tools before submission to perform a preliminary evaluation of the document.
• Ensure that the similarity index does not exceed 17%. If necessary, authors should revise and correct the identified sections.
• Guarantee the proper attribution of all sources used in the manuscript.

During the editorial process, the journal team will review the reports generated by Turnitin. Manuscripts exceeding the established threshold may undergo additional evaluation to determine the nature of the detected similarities.

The active collaboration of authors in controlling similarity contributes to strengthening transparency, ethics, and the scientific quality of the journal’s publications.

Note: A similarity percentage higher than 17% does not automatically imply the rejection of the manuscript. In such cases, authors may provide corrections, clarifications, or justifications as appropriate. Turnitin is a support tool for originality verification and plagiarism prevention and should not be interpreted as an indicator of the scientific quality of the submitted work.