Plagiarism Policy

ARIV: Journal of Islamic Education recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore establishes the following policy regarding plagiarism detection and sanctions. All submitted manuscripts will be screened using plagiarism detection software (Turnitin). A maximum similarity index of 20% is permitted for submitted manuscripts. If the similarity index exceeds 20%, the manuscript will be returned to the author for revision and resubmission.

Plagiarism is defined as the act of copying another person’s text, ideas, data, or intellectual work and presenting them as one’s own without proper acknowledgment. Authors must clearly distinguish copied material from their original writing and properly cite all sources to avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism is considered a serious academic violation and may result in manuscript rejection, reputational damage, and other academic sanctions.

This definition of plagiarism applies to copied text, ideas, data, and materials:

  1. Regardless of the source from which the material was copied.
  2. Regardless of whether the original source itself copied the material from another source.
  3. Regardless of whether the original author is known or unknown.
  4. Regardless of the type of publication in which the copied material appears, including journal articles, books, websites, conference papers, theses, dissertations, or other academic works.
  5. Regardless of whether permission was granted by the original author to reproduce the material.
  6. Regardless of whether the copied material originates from the author’s own previously published work (self-plagiarism).

When plagiarism is identified through plagiarism detection software, the Editorial Board will evaluate the severity of the violation and apply appropriate sanctions according to the following categories:

Minor Plagiarism

A short sentence or brief paragraph is copied from another work without significant use of ideas, data, or findings.

Sanction:
The author will receive a warning and be required to revise the manuscript and properly cite the original source.

Moderate Plagiarism

Significant portions of text, data, or ideas are copied from another source without appropriate citation or acknowledgment.

Sanction:
The submitted manuscript will be automatically rejected.

Severe Plagiarism

A substantial part of the manuscript is plagiarized, including reproduction of original results, data, formulations, equations, methods, arguments, or scientific findings from other publications.

Sanction:
The manuscript will be automatically rejected, and the author may be prohibited from submitting future manuscripts to ARIV: Journal of Islamic Education.