The collection of scientific works «Adult Education: Theory, Experience, Prospects» accepts for publication only original submission (article) that have not been published before and have not been submitted for publication in other Journals.

The Editorial Board uses the StrikePlagiarism.com (Plagiat.PL) program to detect plagiarism in the submission (article). Submission (article) that contain plagiarism without reference to the original source, will be reject by the Editorial Board in order to further clarify the reasons and circumstances of the plagiarism.

Detection the plagiarism before publication. The Editorial Board of the Collection analyzes any case of plagiarism in the content of a scientific article. If plagiarism or the probability of using artificial intelligence is discovered by Editorial Board or Reviewers at any stage before the publication, the author (s) are warned to find out whether the detected plagiarism is indeed borrowed by the Author or, conversely, belongs to the Author as his property, but borrowed from another person and published, and for the peer-reviewed article is not a plagiarism. If not, the Author is invited to rewrite the article text or make a reference to his own source.

Plagiarism checking policy. Manuscripts in which plagiarism is detected are evaluated based on the amount of textual borrowings available in the manuscript by several coefficients (KP1 - no more than 50%, KP2 - no more than 5%, as well as the probability of using artificial intelligence in a percentage ratio from 0-100%), if plagiarism is detected in excess of these coefficients, the manuscript is immediately sent to the Authors for revision. Also, during the check, the anti-plagiarism system will analyze different levels of text modification. Based on the results of the check, the Authors are recommended to revise the text borrowings and resubmit the manuscript in a new version.

The percentage of plagiarism is calculated using anti-plagiarism system software, and will be evaluate by an Expert Commission and the Academic Integrity Supervisor, which are provided by the collection of scientific works «Adult Education: Theory, Experience, Prospects» – Ivan Ziaziun Institute of Pedagogical and Adult Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine.