Plagiarism Screening

Plagiarism is defined as the act of using others’ work, ideas, data, or results without proper acknowledgment, citation, or permission from the original source. This includes, but is not limited to, direct copying, paraphrasing without appropriate referencing, and self-plagiarism.

All manuscripts submitted to Jurnal Laboratorium Khatulistiwa will undergo an initial plagiarism screening using Turnitin software to assess the similarity index. The acceptable similarity threshold for submitted manuscripts is less than 20%.

Manuscripts with a similarity index of more than 20% will be rejected without proceeding to the peer-review process. Authors will be encouraged to revise the manuscript and resubmit it after addressing the similarity issues.

The journal strictly enforces ethical publication standards. Therefore, any form of plagiarism, data fabrication, or data falsification is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.