Plagiarism Policy
The Editorial Board of Jurnal RITMA recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) upon identification of plagiarism/similarities in articles submitted. Jurnal RITMA utilizes Turnitin originality checking software as the tool for detecting similarities in manuscripts.*
Key Provisions:
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A maximum of 20% similarity index is allowed for submitted papers.
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Should the similarity index exceed 20%, the article will be returned to the author for correction and re-submission.
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Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere.
Levels of Plagiarism and Penalties:
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Minor Plagiarism: A small sentence or short paragraph of another manuscript is plagiarized without any significant data or ideas taken from other papers.
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Penalty: A warning is given to the authors and a request to revise the manuscript and properly cite the original sources.
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Intermediate Plagiarism: Significant data, paragraphs, or sentences of an article are plagiarized without proper citation to the original source.
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Penalty: The submitted article is automatically Rejected.
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Severe Plagiarism: A large portion of an article is plagiarized, involving original results (data, formulations, ideas, or methods).
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Penalty: The paper is automatically Rejected, and the authors are forbidden from submitting further articles to Jurnal RITMA.*
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