Plagiarism Prevention and Manuscript Originality Screening Policy

Eurasian Journal of History is committed to upholding the principles of academic integrity and preventing all forms of plagiarism. Every manuscript submitted to the journal must constitute the author’s original scholarly work and must not have been previously published elsewhere.

When using the scholarly arguments, ideas, text, data, tables, or illustrations of other researchers, authors must provide proper attribution to the original sources. The use of another person’s text, scholarly idea, or research result without appropriate citation, as well as the presentation of another author’s text with only minor modifications as one’s own, is considered plagiarism.

The reuse of substantial portions of an author’s previously published work without proper citation of the original publication is considered self-plagiarism. A previously published article, or a substantial part of it, must not be resubmitted as a new scholarly work.

Before being sent for peer review, all manuscripts submitted to the journal are screened for originality and textual similarity using the «Antiplagiat» system.

A manuscript must have an originality score of at least 80%. However, meeting this threshold does not in itself guarantee acceptance for publication. The Editorial Office assesses not only the overall originality percentage, but also the nature, extent, sources, and context of the identified similarities.

A manuscript that does not meet the minimum originality threshold may be returned to the author for revision or rejected. A revised manuscript will be screened again using the «Antiplagiat» system.

Properly formatted quotations, bibliographic entries, titles of legal and regulatory documents, archival references and document identifiers, official names of institutions, texts of historical documents, and commonly used scholarly expressions are assessed separately.

The Editorial Office pays particular attention to the following forms of academic misconduct:

- using another author’s text, idea, or scholarly result without proper attribution;

- presenting another author’s text as one’s own by making only minor changes to wording or sentence structure;

- reusing substantial portions of one’s own previously published work without citing the original source;

- submitting the same manuscript to more than one scholarly journal at the same time;

- presenting previously published work, or a substantial part of it, as a new article;

- fabricating sources, quotations, archival documents, or research data;

- providing false or misleading information about sources, archival materials, or quotations;

- misappropriating another person’s scholarly results or copyrighted material.

Where substantial or unjustified textual similarities are identified, the Editorial Office may request a written explanation from the author or require revision of the manuscript.

If plagiarism or another serious breach of publication ethics is confirmed, the manuscript will be rejected. Where appropriate, the Editorial Office may notify the institution at which the author is employed or enrolled about the identified misconduct.

If plagiarism is identified after publication, the journal will conduct an appropriate investigation and provide the author with an opportunity to respond. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, the journal may issue a correction, an expression of concern, or a retraction notice.

All suspected cases of plagiarism are handled objectively and confidentially. In addressing such matters, the Editorial Office follows generally recognized principles of publication ethics and relevant guidance issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).