Plagiarism Policy

The Journal does not tolerate plagiarism or self-plagiarism, for that:

  • Authors are required to ensure that the manuscript submitted is the original work of the author;
  • Use of other people's ideas/thoughts can be done by citing in accordance with applicable regulations;
  • Authors are not allowed to submit the same manuscript or have similar ideas to other journals;
  • Authors are required to do a plagiarism check independently and upload the results in the supplementary files section in the fourth step of the submission process.

Plagiarism checks are carried out in two ways, which are:

  • By manually searching for titles and keywords in the manuscript and checking the citing procedures;
  • By using Crossref Similarity Check (powered by iThenticate) to find the level of similarity of the manuscript with other posts.

The Journal only accepts articles with a similarity level of less than or equal to 15%. The similarity check is carried out on all manuscripts, except direct quotations and bibliography. The Editorial Board will reject articles that are indicated as plagiarism or have a similarity rate of more than 15%.

Since September 2022, the Journal has taken firm action against plagiarism and redundancy by following the COPE policy standards, which are:

  1. If plagiarism is found in the submission process (before the article is published), the Journal will take action by referring to https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism-submitted-manuscript-cope-flowchart.pdf;
  2. If redundancy is found in the submission process (before the article is published), the Journal will take action by referring to https://publicationethics.org/files/duplicate-publication-submitted-manuscript-cope-flowchart.pdf;
  3. If post-publication redundancy is found, the Journal will take action by referring to https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism-published-article-cope-flowchart.pdf;
  4. If post-publication plagiarism is found, the journal will take action by referring to https://publicationethics.org/files/plagiarism-published-article-cope-flowchart.pdf.