Screaning Plagiarism

Plagiarism and Retraction Policy

The JuMat Editorial Board recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable and has therefore established the following policy stating specific (penalty) measures after identifying plagiarism/similarity in articles submitted for publication on JuMat. JuMat will use originality checker software iThenticate as a tool to detect text similarity in article manuscripts and the final version of the article which is ready for publication. A maximum of 25% similarity is allowed for submitted papers. If we find more than 25% similarity index, the article will be returned to the author for correction and resubmission.

 Definition:

Plagiarism involves "the use or imitation of another author's language and thought and representation of them as one's own original work."

 Policy:

Papers must be original, unpublished, and not awaiting publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from other sources needs to be clearly identified as different from the current original text by (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.

Any text in excess of fair use standards (defined here as more than two or three sentences or its equivalent) or graphic material reproduced from other sources requires permission from the copyright holder and, where applicable, the original author and also requires identification source; for example, previous publications.

When plagiarism is identified, the Editor-in-Chief is responsible for reviewing the paper and will approve steps according to the level of plagiarism detected in the paper according to the following guidelines:

 Plagiarism Rate

Minor:

Short passages from other articles are plagiarized without any important data or ideas taken from other papers

Action: A warning is given to the author and a request to amend the text and cite the original article is properly made

Medium:

Most papers are plagiarized without proper citation to the original paper

Action: The submitted article is rejected and the author is prohibited from submitting further articles for one year.

Severe:

Most papers are plagiarized involving reproduction of original results or ideas presented in other publications

Action: Papers are rejected and authors are prohibited from submitting further articles for five years.

It is understood that all authors are responsible for the content of their submitted papers as they all read and understand JuMat's Copyright and License Terms. If plagiarism is penalized, all authors will be subject to the same penalty.

 If a second case of plagiarism by the same author is identified, a decision on the action to be taken will be made by the editorial board (Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Members) with the Chief Editor-in-Chief. Authors may be banned from submitting further articles forever.

This policy also applies to material reproduced from other publications by the same author. If an author uses previously published text or graphics, the appropriate paragraph or figure should be identified and the previous publication referenced. It is understood that in the case of review papers or tutorial papers, most of the material has been previously published.

Authors must identify the source of previously published material and obtain permission from the original author and publisher. If an author submits a manuscript to JuMat with significant overlap with a manuscript submitted to another journal concurrently, and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after the publication of both papers, the editor of the other journal will be notified and the case will be treated as a case of severe plagiarism. Significant overlap means the use of identical or nearly identical graphics and identical or slightly modified text on one half or more of the paper. For self-plagiarism which is less than half of the paper but more than one-tenth of the paper, the case must be treated as intermediate plagiarism. If self-plagiarism is limited to the method section, the case will be considered minor plagiarism.

If an author uses some previously published material to clarify the presentation of new results, the previously published material should be identified and differences from these publications should be noted. Permission to republish must be obtained from the copyright holder. In the case of a manuscript originally published in conference proceedings and then submitted for publication at JuMat either in identical form or in an expanded form, the author must identify the name of the conference proceedings and the date of publication and obtain permission to republish from the copyright holder. The editor may decide not to accept this paper for publication.

However, an author is permitted to use material from an unpublished presentation, including visuals, in a subsequent journal publication. For submitted publications that were originally published in another language, the title, date, and journal of the original publication must be identified by the author, and copyright must be obtained. Editors may accept publication of such translations to appeal to a wider audience. Editors can select specific published papers (for example, “historic” papers) for republishing to provide a better perspective of a series of papers published in a single issue of JuMat. This republication must be clearly identified as such and the date and journal of the original publication must be given, and permission from the author and publisher must be obtained.

The JuMat layout editor for Journals is responsible for maintaining the list of penalized authors and will check that no author of submitted papers is on this list. If a banned author is identified, the layout editor will notify the Chief Editor who will take appropriate action. This policy will be posted on the website with instructions for submitting the manuscript, and a copy will be sent to the author with a confirmation email upon initial receipt of their original manuscript.