Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism Policy

The Editorial Board of Jurnal Ilmiah Ekonomi dan Pajak (EJAK Journal) declares that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating special actions (punishments) when plagiarism is identified in articles submitted for publication on EJAK.

Definition:

Plagiarism involves "the use or imitation of the language and thoughts of other authors and their representation as their own original work."

Policy:

Articles must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be clearly identified as distinct from the current original text through (1) indentation, (2) use of quotation marks, and (3) identification of the source.

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

All manuscripts will undergo a preliminary plagiarism check using the Turnitin Software. The screening process will be carried out by the Editor after the manuscript is received.

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

Plagiarism Rate

  1. Small: Short sections from other articles were plagiarized without any important data or ideas taken from other articles. A warning is given to the author and a request to change the text and correctly cite the original article is made
  2. Medium: Most articles are plagiarized without proper citation to the original article. The submitted article is rejected and the author is prohibited from submitting further articles for one year
  3. Severe: Most articles are plagiarized involving duplicating original results or ideas presented in other publications. Articles are rejected and authors are prohibited from submitting further articles for five years.

All authors are responsible for the content of their articles. If plagiarism is punished, all authors will be subject to the same penalty. If a second case of plagiarism is committed by the same author, the author may be banned from submitting the article forever.