iThenticate compares every submitted paper to a massive database of content from over 90,000 major newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and books as well as a database of over 14 billion current and archived pages of web content. In addition, iThenticate checks materials from over 50,000 scholarly journals and more than 150 STM publishers.

The similarity rate of the articles uploaded to our journal is determined by the iThenticate program.

The editorial board of  Q complies with the following rules for plagiarism policy;

    1- Articles with a similarity rate of more than 20% are rejected. In such cases, the author/s will be asked to re-revise the article within three weeks.

    2- Only articles with a similarity rate ≤ 20% are taken into the review process.

    3- The above-mentioned rules are accepted by all authors who have uploaded articles to the Q.