Dear Alexander Stoimenov:

Thank you for your message and for clarifying the circumstances surrounding the similarity report.

We understand your explanation regarding the temporary availability of the manuscript on your personal website and appreciate your efforts to remove the material once the issue was identified. However, our editorial procedures require that submitted manuscripts comply with the journal's originality standards at the time of assessment.

You are welcome to resubmit the manuscript for reconsideration. Nevertheless, please note that if the revised submission continues to display an overall similarity index of approximately 97% -- particularly where the overlap is attributed to the same manuscript already associated with another submission or publicly accessible source -- we will regrettably be unable to proceed further with the editorial evaluation process.

In such a case, the manuscript would likely need to be formally withdrawn until the similarity concerns can be resolved in a manner consistent with the journal's publication ethics policies.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
Best wishes,

[editor] - [Journal] Editorial Office
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Date: [...]
From: Alexander Stoimenow <...>
To: [Journal]
Subject: Re: [manuscript number] [Journal] - changes required to your submission


Dear Editorial Office,

I had put this copy on my website as a reference for a reviewer of another
submission. Once I deleted it there, there is absolutely
nothing more I feel I can do to further "clean" it.
I certainly cannot clean your tool's cache,
and I cannot rewrite the entire text just because it is stored there.

Please, let me know what I have to do exactly.
I can resubmit on your site repeating this same description.
Or am I compelled to withdraw it?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

Sincerely yours,

Alexander


On [date], [Journal] wrote:

> [date]
>
> Dear Alexander Stoimenov:
>
> Your above referenced manuscript, entitled "..." requires some further changes before it is ready for reviewing in
> [Journal]. Your submission has been returned to you and is located in [...] as a draft, so that you can make the
> required changes to it and submit it again.
>
> You have resubmitted the document; however, the overall similarity index continues to register at 97%.
>
> We have observed that the original link to the online manuscript now appears to be broken. Nevertheless, the similarity
> detection system still seems to be retrieving the manuscript from its archived source, thereby maintaining the 97%
> overall similarity score.
>
> Kindly review the matter at your earliest convenience.
>
> Please visit the instructions to authors to complete your submission and re-submit the manuscript for consideration of
> publication.
>
> To re-submit your manuscript, please go to your author dashboard at [site], locate the manuscript and click 'Resume'.
>
> --
>
> Sincerely,
> Editorial Office, [Journal]
>