Plagiarism Screening

To maintain the quality, originality, and integrity of its scholarly publications, ECFi: Journal of Economics and Islamic Finance implements a rigorous plagiarism-screening policy.

All submitted manuscripts are screened using Turnitin or other appropriate similarity-detection software before entering the peer-review process. The overall similarity index must not exceed 25%, excluding the reference list, bibliography, and properly quoted material.

• Manuscripts with a similarity index exceeding 25% will be returned to the authors for revision or may be rejected by the editorial team.
• Authors are strongly encouraged to screen their manuscripts using reliable plagiarism-detection software before submission.
• Authors must appropriately cite and acknowledge all ideas, data, statements, and materials obtained from other sources.
• Any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, verbatim copying, duplicate publication, citation manipulation, and inappropriate paraphrasing without proper acknowledgement, constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and will not be tolerated.
• Manuscripts containing substantial plagiarism may be rejected immediately without proceeding to peer review.
• If plagiarism is identified after publication, ECFi reserves the right to issue a correction, withdraw, or retract the article in accordance with its publication ethics policy.
• The editorial team reserves the right to reject or take other appropriate action against any manuscript that violates this policy.

By submitting a manuscript to ECFi, authors confirm that their work is original, has not been published elsewhere, is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal, and complies fully with the journal’s Plagiarism Screening Policy.