Screening Plagiarism

Sophisticated: Jurnal Pemikiran Politik Islam spares No tolerance towards plagiarism. To ensure the originality of the manuscript, TURNITIN is used to evaluate the similarity index and then the editor decides the suspected case of plagiarism (author will be notified for similarity report). The rubric of assessment by editorial board shall follow these standards:

  1. Similarity Index more than 40%: Article Rejected (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing, article outright rejected, NO RESUBMISSION accepted).
  2. Similarity Index (10-40%): Send back to the author for improvement (author should revise by giving proper citations to all places of similarity and alter for better paraphrasing even if the citation is provided).
  3. Similarity index less than 10%:  Accepted or citation refinement should be given (proper citations must be provided to all outsourced texts).

In cases 2 and 3: The authors should rectify the manuscript carefully, add required citations, and do good paraphrasing from original text.