Originality and Plagiarism

EnNRJ considers plagiarism, duplicate publication, redundant publication, and inappropriate text reuse to be serious forms of publication misconduct.

All submitted manuscripts are screened for originality and text similarity using plagiarism-detection software, such as Crossref Similarity Check (powered by Turn-it-in) or other suitable tools.

A similarity score alone is not definitive evidence of plagiarism. The Editorial Board evaluates the nature, extent, location, and sources of overlapping content to determine whether further action or revision is required.

Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:

• Direct copying of text without appropriate quotation marks and citations.
• Mosaic plagiarism or patchwriting (paraphrasing without proper attribution).
• Presenting another party's ideas, data, methods, findings, or interpretations as one's own.
• Inappropriate reuse of figures, tables, images, or other visual materials.
• Substantial reuse of one's own previously published work without explicit disclosure and proper citation (self-plagiarism).

All manuscripts are subject to online screening via Turnitin. Any paper with a Turnitin similarity score above 60%—including references and block quotes—will be rejected without further consideration. It should be noted that manuscripts with a similarity score of 40-60% will be flagged for special consideration and submitted to the editorial board for formal evaluation. Manuscripts checked via Turnitin are not stored in online repositories. All authors accept their responsibilities, and the editorial staff will take additional precautions to prevent plagiarism if Turnitin yields inconclusive results.

Citation Manipulation

Authors, reviewers, and editors must not engage in citation manipulation to artificially inflate citation counts, journal metrics, author metrics, or the visibility of specific publications.

Citation recommendations provided during the peer-review process must be grounded solely in genuine scholarly relevance and necessity.

Inappropriate citation practices include, but are not limited to:

• Excessive self-citation without clear scholarly justification.
• Coordinated or reciprocal citation arrangements between authors, reviewers, or editors.
• Coercive citation (e.g., editors or reviewers requiring authors to cite specific papers without academic justification).
• Insertion of irrelevant or unnecessary references to artificially boost citation counts.
• Requesting or adding citations solely to improve journal, author, or reviewer metrics.

Intellectual Property and Copyright

• Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted manuscripts do not infringe the intellectual property, copyright, privacy, or other rights of third parties.
• Authors must obtain permission, where required, to reproduce copyrighted materials, including figures, photographs, tables, substantial text, or other protected materials, and must appropriately acknowledge all sources.
• EnNRJ respects the intellectual property rights of authors and third parties and may take appropriate action in cases of copyright infringement or unauthorized use of materials.