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Global Confluence Review

Plagiarism, Similarity and AI-Generated Content Policy

Global Confluence Review (GCR) is committed to maintaining academic integrity, originality, transparency, and ethical scholarly publishing. All manuscripts submitted to the journal must meet the journal's standards for originality, proper attribution, and responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI).

1. Plagiarism and Originality

Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts represent original scholarly work. All ideas, text, data, figures, tables, and other material obtained from external sources must be appropriately acknowledged and cited.

Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:

  • Copying text or ideas from another source without proper attribution.
  • Presenting another person's research, findings, or work as one's own.
  • Inadequately paraphrasing source material.
  • Reusing previously published material without appropriate citation or disclosure.
  • Submitting substantially overlapping or duplicate publications without proper disclosure.

2. Similarity Threshold

GCR requires manuscripts to have a text similarity score below 10%.

All submitted manuscripts must undergo similarity screening using an appropriate plagiarism-detection tool. Manuscripts with a similarity score of 10% or higher may be returned to authors for revision or rejected, depending on the nature and extent of the overlap.

A similarity score is an indicator for editorial assessment and does not, by itself, establish plagiarism. Editors may examine the similarity report in context, including whether matches arise from references, properly quoted material, standard terminology, common phrases, or methodological descriptions. Where appropriate, these exclusions may be applied consistently during assessment.

Meeting the numerical threshold does not guarantee acceptance if plagiarism, unattributed reuse, or other publication ethics concerns are identified.

3. AI-Generated Content Policy

GCR requires the AI-detection score of submitted manuscripts to be below 20%, as measured using an appropriate AI-detection tool.

Manuscripts with an AI-detection score of 20% or higher may be returned for clarification or revision, or rejected following editorial assessment.

AI-detection scores are not definitive proof that a manuscript was generated by AI. Such tools can produce false positives and false negatives. Editors should consider the detection report alongside the manuscript, the author's disclosures, and other relevant evidence before making a decision.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, references, arguments, and conclusions in their manuscripts.

4. Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence

Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI tools in preparing manuscript content, where applicable under the journal's submission instructions. Such disclosure should identify the tool and describe its role in preparing the manuscript.

AI tools must not be listed as authors. Authors are responsible for verifying all AI-assisted content, including references, quotations, factual claims, calculations, and research results. AI tools must not be used to fabricate data, sources, research findings, or citations.

The use of AI for basic spelling, grammar, or language editing should be distinguished from generating substantive scholarly content.

5. Editorial Screening and Assessment

The editorial team may screen submissions for text similarity, potential plagiarism, and AI-generated content during initial assessment or peer review.

Similarity and AI-detection results are screening indicators rather than conclusive findings. Editors may request explanations, revisions, supporting information, or additional evidence where concerns arise.

The journal may reject a submission where significant ethical concerns remain unresolved, even if the numerical thresholds are met.

6. Handling Violations

Depending on the seriousness of the concern, the journal may:

  • Request clarification or revised content.
  • Return a manuscript for correction.
  • Reject a submission.
  • Investigate suspected misconduct in a published article.
  • Publish a correction, expression of concern, or retraction where warranted.

Editorial decisions should be based on the evidence and the nature of the concern, rather than numerical scores alone.

7. Author Responsibilities

By submitting a manuscript to GCR, authors confirm that:

  • The work is original or appropriately attributed.
  • Sources and reused material are properly cited.
  • Required disclosures concerning AI use are complete and accurate.
  • The manuscript complies with the journal's similarity and AI-use requirements.
  • They accept responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of the submitted work.

8. Policy Updates

Global Confluence Review may revise this policy as scholarly publishing standards, screening tools, and publication ethics practices evolve. Authors are responsible for reviewing the applicable policies and submission instructions before submitting a manuscript.

Questions? Contact the editorial office.