Plagiarism Screening Policy

1. Screening Obligation

All submitted manuscripts must undergo plagiarism screening using Turnitin prior to peer review.

2. Similarity Threshold

• Maximum 15%: Overall similarity (excluding mandatory citations & references).
• Maximum 5%: Similarity per single source.
• Similarity >15%: Manuscript rejected/returned for revision.

3. Prohibited Plagiarism Types

• Direct copying (copy-paste) without attribution.
• Extensive paraphrasing without citation.
• Self-plagiarism(>30% duplicate content from author’s prior work).
• Idea/data plagiarism without acknowledgment.

4. Verification Procedure

• Similarity reports are analyzed by the Editorial Team.
• Highlighted sections are inspected to distinguish:
  ✓ Mandatory citations (common knowledge)
  ✓ Unauthorized copying (plagiarism).
• Authors must include an Originality Statement upon submission.

5. Violation Sanctions

• Minor Offense (similarity 15–25%):
  Manuscript returned for revision within 14 days.
• Moderate Offense (similarity 26–40%):
  *Rejection + 1-year submission ban.*
• Severe Offense (similarity >40% or structured plagiarism):
  Permanent blacklist + notification to the author’s institution.
  

6. Appeal

Authors may appeal with supporting evidence to anthropos@unimed.ac.id within 7 days of notification.

7. Author Responsibility

Authors bear full responsibility for manuscript originality and must cite all referenced sources.