Plagiarism Policy

Sport Science and Health Research (SSHR) is committed to maintaining academic integrity and publishing only original scholarly works. All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism and comply with ethical publishing standards.

Plagiarism Includes, but is Not Limited to:

  • Copying words, sentences, data, figures, tables, or other materials from a source without proper citation or acknowledgment.
  • Quoting or paraphrasing substantial parts of another author's work without appropriate attribution.
  • Using ideas, concepts, opinions, methods, or theories developed by others without properly citing the original source.
  • Rearranging or modifying words and sentences from a published work while retaining the original meaning without adequate citation (patchwriting).
  • Submitting a manuscript that has been wholly or partially published elsewhere without appropriate disclosure (duplicate publication or self-plagiarism).
  • Claiming another person's scientific work, research findings, or intellectual property as one's own.

Prevention

To ensure the originality of published articles, all manuscripts submitted to Sport Science and Health Research (SSHR) will undergo plagiarism screening using Turnitin before entering the peer-review process.

The Editorial Board requires that the similarity index does not exceed 20% (excluding references, bibliography, and properly quoted text). Manuscripts exceeding this threshold may be returned to the authors for revision or rejected, depending on the nature and extent of the similarity.

Sanctions

If plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct are identified before or after publication, SSHR may impose one or more of the following sanctions:

  • Request revision to remove or properly cite plagiarized content.
  • Reject the submitted manuscript.
  • Issue a formal warning to the author(s).
  • Retract the published article.
  • Remove the article from the journal website and indexing services, when appropriate.
  • Notify the author's affiliated institution or funding agency in cases of serious publication misconduct.

The Editorial Board investigates all suspected plagiarism cases fairly and confidentially, following the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. Decisions made by the Editorial Board regarding plagiarism cases are final.