Screening for Plagiarism Policy
Tudang Sipulung: Journal of Community Service is committed to maintaining academic integrity and upholding the highest standards of publication ethics. Therefore, any form of plagiarism, whether intentional or unintentional, is considered a serious violation of academic and scholarly publishing ethics.
Plagiarism includes the use of ideas, data, methods, research findings, figures, tables, or text belonging to others without providing proper acknowledgment and citation to the original source.
Authors submitting manuscripts to Tudang Sipulung: Journal of Community Service must ensure that their work is original, has not been previously published, and is not under consideration for publication by another journal. In addition, all sources used in the preparation of the manuscript must be properly cited in accordance with accepted academic citation standards.
As part of the journal’s commitment to maintaining publication quality and credibility, all submitted manuscripts will undergo a similarity check using plagiarism detection software, such as Turnitin, before entering the peer-review process. The results of this screening constitute one of the considerations used by the editors in determining whether a manuscript is eligible for further review.
Forms of Plagiarism
- Full Plagiarism
Full plagiarism occurs when an author uses all or a substantial portion of a work previously published by another party without proper acknowledgment. This form of misconduct includes the appropriation of ideas, data, results, or entire manuscripts and presenting them as one’s own work.
- Partial Plagiarism
Partial plagiarism occurs when an author takes specific portions of another person's work and makes only minor changes to words, sentences, or paragraphs without properly citing the original source. This practice is still considered unethical because the scientific substance originates from another author's work.
- Self-Plagiarism
Self-plagiarism refers to the reuse of part or all of a work previously published by the same author without adequate disclosure or citation. This includes duplicate publication, redundant publication, and the reuse of previously published data or findings without clearly informing editors and readers.
Plagiarism Handling Procedure
If indications of plagiarism are identified by editors, reviewers, or other parties during submission, review, editing, or prior to publication, the editors will conduct an evaluation and seek clarification from the author(s). Authors may be requested to revise the manuscript by rewriting problematic sections, correcting citations, or improving the reference list in accordance with the sources used.
Tudang Sipulung: Journal of Community Service establishes that manuscripts with a similarity index exceeding 25% may be rejected for publication. The decision of rejection will be formally communicated to the author(s), accompanied by the reasons for the decision.
If plagiarism is detected after publication, the editorial board will conduct an investigation based on publication ethics principles and the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). If misconduct is confirmed, the journal reserves the right to take appropriate action, including notifying the author’s affiliated institution and/or relevant funding agencies.
Articles proven to contain plagiarism may be subject to sanctions, including the publication of a correction, the issuance of a statement of misconduct associated with the published article, or the retraction of the article from the journal. These measures are undertaken to preserve scientific integrity, publication credibility, and the trust of the academic community in Tudang Sipulung: Journal of Community Service.
