Screening Plagiarism Policy

1. Introduction:

All articles submitted to Al-Muamalat: Jurnal Ekonomi Syariah undergo plagiarism screening using Turnitin.
The journal strictly rejects papers with plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
Before submitting articles to reviewers, the editorial team checks for similarity/plagiarism tools, ensuring a similarity level of less than 25%.

2. Definition of Plagiarism:

Plagiarism includes presenting another person's thoughts or words as one's own without permission, credit, or acknowledgment.
Forms of plagiarism range from literal copying to paraphrasing without proper citation.

3. Forms of Plagiarism:

Literal Copying: Reproducing another author's work word by word, in whole or in part, without permission or proper acknowledgment.
Substantial Copying: Reproducing a significant part of another author's work without permission or acknowledgment.
Paraphrasing: Taking ideas, words, or phrases from a source without proper citation or acknowledgment.

4. Similarity Level:

Al-Muamalat: Jurnal Ekonomi Syariah maintains zero tolerance towards plagiarism.
Turnitin is used to evaluate the similarity index, and the editor determines possible plagiarism cases.
Editorial Board Actions:
- Similarity Index above 40%: Article Rejected (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing; no resubmission accepted).
- Similarity Index (10-40%): Sent to the author for improvement (correct citations and good paraphrasing required).
- Similarity Index Less than 10%: Accepted or citation improvement may be required (proper citations for all outsourced texts).
- In cases 2 and 3: Authors should revise the article, add required citations, do good paraphrasing to outsourced text, and resubmit with a new Turnitin report showing no plagiarism and similarity of less than 25%.