Policy of Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of taking another person's ideas, writings, data, or work (or their own previously published work) and presenting them as one's own new work without providing proper and clear attribution or acknowledgement. Plagiarism is not just a copyright violation, but a serious violation of academic ethics and integrity.

1Forms of Plagiarism

Conventional Text Plagiarism (Literal/Direct Plagiarism): Copying word for word from other sources without using quotation marks ("...") and without citing the original source.
Paraphrasing Plagiarism: Changing the wording or sentence structure of other sources but still retaining the core idea without providing a clear reference.
Data and Image Plagiarism: Taking tables, graphs, schematics, visual images, or a set of research data from someone else's publication without official permission or without listing the original source.
Plagiarism of Ideas: Taking someone else's unique hypothesis, methodology, or argument structure obtained from an unpublished draft (e.g., when a peer reviewer) and claiming it as a personal idea.
Auto-Plagiarism / Self-Plagiarism (Text Recycling): Also known as duplicate publication, which is the act of copying a significant portion of previously published text, data, or research results into a new article without citing or explaining that the part has been published.

2Similarity Index vs Plagiarism

The percentage figure on the scanner is a maximum of 20%), but this is not a single indicator of plagiarism. A low similarity score can still be considered plagiarism if the copied part is the core idea of the manuscript, on the other hand, a rather high score is not necessarily plagiarism if it is only the name of an official document or an indexed reference.

3Detection and Procedure for Handling Plagiarism Indications

Yurispruden screens the manuscript with  the similarity check Turnitin similarity scanner, if plagiarism is indicated, Yurispruden will take the following steps:

Step 1
Similarity Level Investigation: Editors sort out whether the similarities are simply a general phrase/methodological standard, or are substantial theft of ideas.
Step 2
Clarification to the Author: The journal sent a similarity report to the author to request an official response regarding the similarity of the text.
Ethical Sanctions:
Minor Plagiarism is in the form of small sentences or short paragraphs from other manuscripts without plagiarism of significant data or ideas taken from other papers/publications.
Penalties: Warnings are given to the author and requests to change the manuscript and cite the original source correctly.
Plagiarism Intermediate Data, paragraphs, or important sentences of an article are plagiarized without proper citations to the original source.
Heavy Plagiarism Most articles are plagiarized which involves many aspects such as reproducing original results (data, formulations, equations, laws, statements, etc.), ideas, and methods presented in other publications.
Penalty: Submitted articles are automatically rejected.

4Handling of Manuscripts Proven to Plagiarism Before Publication

The author revises the manuscript or the manuscript is rejected directly if the author does not revise minor plagiarism within the time limit to be determined by the editor or proves to be medium and severe plagiarism.

5Handling of Manuscripts Proven to Plagiarism After Publication

1. Issuance of Official Correction (Corrigendum / Erratum)

If the author's explanation is acceptable and it is proven that the similarity is accidental/minor, the publisher will not retract the article. The issuer only attaches an official Notice of Correction containing:

  • Missing addition of citations or references to original sources.
  • Changing the phrases/sentences in the related sections so that they are no longer plagiarized.
2. Letter of Concern / Warning

The editor sends ethical responses to the author to be more careful in the future so as not to repeat similar mistakes.

6When Does Minor Plagiarism Turn Into Retraction?

Although the percentage of copied text is small, the Jurisprudence will consider Retraction (Article Retraction) or report to the author's institution if, the author provides an unsatisfactory explanation, is uncooperative, or deliberately lies or the minor part copied turns out to be a key finding or claims of the findings belonging to others.