Each submitted articles to Kafkas University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences Faculty (KAUJEASF) are scanned through iThenticate plagiarism detection software. In the similarity check conducted via the iThenticate software, the total similarity rate excluding references must not exceed 20%, and similarity from a single source must not exceed 3%. Manuscripts exceeding these thresholds will be rejected without being considered for evaluation. In this context, similarity assessments are based solely on reports generated by the journal through iThenticate. Similarity reports submitted by the authors themselves will not be taken into consideration.