Plagiarism Policy

The Journal of Food Security and Agroindustry (JFSA) practices zero tolerance for plagiarism. We used Turnitin to evaluate the similarity index, and the editor then decided on possible plagiarism (a similarity report will be provided to the author). The editorial board passed the following actions:

1. Similarity Index above 50%: Article Rejected (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing, article outright rejected, NO RESUBMISSION accepted).
2. Similarity Index (25-50%): Send to the author for improvement (provide correct citations to all places of similarity and perform good paraphrasing even if the citation is provided).
3. Similarity index of less than 25%:  Accepted or citation improvement may be required (proper citations must be provided to all outsourced texts).
4. In Cases 2 and 3, the authors should revise the article carefully, add the required citations, and paraphrase the outsourced text well. The article was resubmitted with a new Turnitin report and a less than 25% similarity.