PLAGIARISM POLICY

Plagiarism Policy

Journal of Islamic Enterpreneurship and Management recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable for all author and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified by Journal of Islamic Enterpreneurship and Management anti-plagiarism software detection in an article that is submitted for publication.

This plagiarism applies for copied text and ideas:

  1. Regardless of the source of the copied text or idea.
  2. Regardless of whether the author(s) of the text or idea which you have copied actually copied that  text or idea from another source.
  3. Regardless of whether or not the authorship of the text or idea which you copy is known
  4. Regardless of the nature of your text (journal paper/article, web page, book chapter, paper submitted for a college course, etc) into which you copy the text or idea
  5. Regardless of whether or not the author of the source of the copied material gives permission for the material to be copied; and
  6. Regardless of whether you are or are not the author of the source of the copied text or idea (self-plagiarism).

Similarity Check

Every submitted manuscript is checked using Turnitin at two stages: at initial screening before peer review, and again after revision before acceptance. The maximum similarity index accepted is 25%, excluding the reference list and quotations, with no more than 3% from a single source. Manuscripts above this limit are returned to the authors for revision or rejected, depending on the extent of the similarity.

Actions on Plagiarism

- Minor Plagiarism: A small sentence or short paragraph of another manuscript is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other papers or publications. Punishment: A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the manuscript and properly cite the original sources.

- Intermediate Plagiarism: A significant data, paragraph, or sentence of an article is plagiarized without proper citation to the original source. Punishment: The submitted article is automatic rejected.

- Severe Plagiarism: A large portion of an article is plagiarized that involves many aspects such as reproducing original results (data, formulation, equation, law, statement, etc.), ideas, and methods presented in other publications. Punishment: The paper is automatic rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles to the journal.

Plagiarism Found After Publication

If plagiarism is identified in a published article, the journal will investigate following the COPE guidelines. Depending on the outcome, the article may be corrected or retracted as described in the Correction and Retraction Policy, and the authors' institution may be informed.