Plagiarism Statement

The editorial board of the journal is committed to publishing only original material, i.e., material that has neither been published elsewhere, nor is under review elsewhere. The journal “Baltic Journal of Economic Studies” uses software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts in which plagiarism or textual borrowings are found without reference to the original source are rejected by the editorial board for publication in the journal.

Publishing House "Baltija Publishing" advocates adherence to the principles of ethics and integrity of science, which is why it has chosen developed by the Polish company Plagiat, a reliable partner in ensuring the scientific publications quality. The articles are checked for plagiarism using the software StrikePlagiarism.com.

Plagiarism implies the use another author's work without permission or acknowledgement. Plagiarism may have different forms from copying word by word to rewriting.

The editorial board of the journal judge any case of plagiarism on its own merits. If plagiarism is detected, either by editors or reviewers at any stage before publication of a manuscript, the author(s) will be alerted asking him/her to either rewrite the text or quote the text exactly and cite the original source.