The editorial board of the journal «Innovation and Sustainability» is committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere.

The journal «Innovation and Sustainability»

uses software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts: Unicheck, Antiplagiat, eTXT. Manuscripts in which plagiarism or textual borrowings are found without reference to the original source are rejected by the editorial board for publication in the journal.

The journal «Innovation and Sustainability» will judge any case of plagiarism on its own merits. If plagiarism is detected, either by the editors, peer reviewers or editorial staff at any stage before publication of a manuscript - before or after acceptance, during editing or at page proof stage, we will alert the author(s), asking her or him to either rewrite the text or quote the text exactly and to cite the original source.

If the plagiarism is extensive - that is, if at least 25% of the original submission is plagiarized - the article may be rejected and the author's institution/employer notified.

The manuscripts in which plagiarism is detected are handled based on the extent of plagiarism present in the manuscript: if > 25% plagiarism – the manuscript is rejected without editorial review.

The percentage of plagiarism is calculated by software and also assessed manually.

Plagiarism after publication

If plagiarism is detected after publication, the Journal will conduct an investigation. If plagiarism is found, the journal editorial office will contact the author's institute and funding agencies. The paper containing the plagiarism will be marked on each page of the PDF. Depending on the extent of the plagiarism, the paper may also be formally retracted.

Selfcitation

It is allowed to use self-citation no more than 20% of references.