title: Biochemia Medica has started using the CrossCheck plagiarism detection software powered by iThenticate.
abstract: In February 2013, Biodhemia Medica has joined CrossRef, which enabled us to implement CrossCheck plagiarism detection service. Therefore, all manuscript submitted to Biodchemia Medica are now first assigned to Research integrity editor (RIE), before sending the manuscript for peer-review. RIE submits the text to CrossCheck analysis and is responsible for reviewing the results of the text similarity analysis. Based on the CrossCheck analysis results, RIE subsequently provides a recommendation to the Editor-in-chief (EIC) on whether the manuscript should be forwarded to peer-review, corrected for suspected parts prior to peer-review or immediately rejected. Final decision on the manuscript is, however, with the EIC. We hope that our new policy and manuscript processing algorithm will help us to further increase the overall quality of our Journal.
authors.forename: Vesna
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Supak-Smolcić
authors.forename: Ana-Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Simundić
mesh_terms: D015714:Plagiarism; D011643:Publishing; D015871:Scientific Misconduct; D012984:Software
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