Plagiarism Policy

Statement and Policy

Jurnal Ilmiah Kesehatan applies a strict policy against plagiarism and other forms of publication misconduct. The journal is committed to maintaining originality, academic integrity, and ethical standards in all published articles. Appropriate editorial actions will be taken whenever plagiarism or substantial overlap is identified in a submitted or published manuscript.

Definition

Plagiarism is the act of using another person's ideas, words, data, research findings, images, tables, or other intellectual contributions without appropriate acknowledgment and presenting them as one's own original work. Plagiarism may occur in the introduction, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, or other parts of a manuscript.

Policy

Manuscripts submitted to Jurnal Ilmiah Kesehatan must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Any material quoted directly from another source must be clearly identified using appropriate quotation marks or block quotations, accompanied by proper citation and source attribution. Paraphrased ideas, research findings, data, and other contributions from previous publications must also be appropriately cited.

The reproduction or adaptation of figures, tables, questionnaires, research instruments, clinical photographs, and other copyrighted materials must comply with applicable copyright requirements. Permission from the relevant copyright holder must be obtained when required, and the original source must be acknowledged.

Authors must ensure that their manuscripts comply with ethical and copyright requirements relevant to nursing, midwifery, pharmacy, medicine, public health, and physiotherapy research.

Author's Responsibility for Similarity Checking

To support manuscript originality, authors are required to conduct a similarity check using Turnitin, iThenticate, or another recognized similarity-checking tool before submission.

Authors must submit a similarity report showing a maximum overall similarity index of 20% together with the manuscript. Manuscripts submitted without the required report, or with a similarity index exceeding 20%, may be returned to the authors for correction before further editorial assessment.

The similarity index is used as an initial screening indicator and does not, by itself, establish whether plagiarism has occurred. Editors will assess the sources and context of matched text, including citations, references, standard terminology, and descriptions of established research methods.

Similarity Levels and Editorial Actions

Jurnal Ilmiah Kesehatan applies the following editorial procedures based on the overall similarity index:

1. Similarity index below 20%: The manuscript may proceed to initial editorial assessment and peer review, provided that no significant plagiarism or other ethical concerns are identified. Appropriate citation corrections may still be required.

2. Similarity index from 20% to 40%: The manuscript will normally be returned to the authors for substantial revision. Authors must address problematic similarities, provide appropriate citations, improve paraphrasing, and submit a revised manuscript with a new similarity report showing an overall similarity index below 20%. The revised manuscript remains subject to editorial evaluation.

3. Similarity index above 40%: The manuscript will normally be rejected because of substantial textual overlap and concerns regarding originality. Resubmission may be prohibited when the editorial assessment establishes serious plagiarism or other significant ethical violations.

These thresholds serve as editorial screening guidelines. The Editorial Board reserves the right to reject a manuscript at any similarity level if substantial plagiarism, unattributed copying, or other serious ethical misconduct is identified.

Plagiarism, Similarity, and Paraphrasing

It is important to distinguish between similarity, plagiarism, and paraphrasing.

• Similarity refers to text or other content that matches material identified in existing sources by similarity-checking software. Matches may result from properly cited quotations, reference lists, standard terminology, common expressions, or descriptions of established methods.

• Plagiarism occurs when another person's intellectual contributions are used without appropriate acknowledgment or are misrepresented as the author's own work.

• Paraphrasing involves expressing another author's ideas in one's own words while preserving the original meaning. Proper citation remains necessary even when the wording has been substantially changed.

The Editorial Board evaluates the similarity report in context rather than relying exclusively on the overall percentage. Particular attention is given to unattributed copying of research findings, theoretical arguments, clinical recommendations, research instruments, and other substantive content.

Additional Information

Authors are fully responsible for the originality, accuracy, and integrity of their submitted manuscripts. By submitting an article, authors confirm that the work complies with the journal's publication ethics and copyright policies.

If serious plagiarism or repeated publication misconduct is identified, the Editorial Board may reject the manuscript, request an explanation, notify the authors' affiliated institutions when appropriate, issue a correction or retraction for a published article, or impose restrictions on future submissions. Any action will be proportionate to the severity of the misconduct and consistent with applicable publication ethics guidance.

Self-Plagiarism and Text Recycling

This policy also applies to the inappropriate reuse of material from an author's own previously published work. Authors must appropriately cite their earlier publications when reusing ideas, text, figures, tables, or other materials. Permission from the copyright holder must be obtained when required.

Reusing previously published text or data without appropriate acknowledgment may constitute self-plagiarism or redundant publication. The journal evaluates such cases according to the extent of overlap, the nature of the material, the transparency of the disclosure, and the implications for the originality of the manuscript.

For manuscripts developed from conference proceedings, authors must disclose the original publication, identify the conference proceedings and publication details, explain the additional contribution of the submitted manuscript, and obtain permission when required. The submitted article must provide a meaningful scholarly contribution beyond the previously published version.

Dual or Redundant Submission

Authors must not submit the same manuscript, or substantially overlapping manuscripts, to more than one journal simultaneously.

If significant overlap with another submitted or published manuscript is identified during peer review or after publication, the Editorial Board will investigate the case and may contact the relevant journal or institution when appropriate. Confirmed duplicate or redundant submission may result in rejection, withdrawal of the article from the publication process, or retraction if the article has already been published.

Significant overlap may include the reuse of identical or substantially similar text, tables, figures, datasets, or research findings without adequate disclosure and justification. Each case will be assessed according to the nature and extent of the overlap, the originality of the contribution, and applicable publication ethics standards.