PLAGIARISM POLICY

The Editorial Team of School Education Journal PGSD FIP UNIMED recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable and has established the following policy detailing specific actions (penalties) to be taken when plagiarism is found in articles submitted for publication.

Definition: Plagiarism is an act intentionally or unintentionally to obtain or attempt to obtain an award or value for a scientific work by citing one or all of the scientific work and/or the work of another party that is recognized as a scientific work, without citing the source accurately and completely.

For this reason, then: Articles must be original, unpublished, and not being evaluated for other publications. Material obtained orally from other sources must be recorded properly so that it can be distinguished from the original text. If plagiarism is revealed, the Editor-in-Chief is responsible for reviewing the article and will approve the action based on the level of plagiarism revealed, in accordance with the rules below:

Level of Plagiarism:

• Plagiarizing several short sentences from another article without citing the source. Action: The author is given a warning and a request to change the text and citations properly.

• Plagiarizing most of another article without proper citation and not citing the source. Action: The submitted article is rejected for publication in the Sibatik Journal and the author may be subject to sanctions because it is not allowed to be published in the School Education Journal PGSD FIP UNIMED

Because they all signed the Publication Ethics Statement Form of the School Education Journal PGSD FIP UNIMED, all authors of the article are responsible for the content of the article they submitted. If an article is found to be plagiarized, all authors will face the same penalty. If it is confirmed that the author has submitted his paper to the School Education Journal PGSD FIP UNIMED and sent it to another journal, and the overlap is found during the review process or after publication, then action will be taken according to point 2 above. If plagiarism is found outside the standards mentioned above, the editors of the School Education Journal PGSD FIP UNIMED have the authority to impose sanctions according to the editorial team's policy.

Every manuscript submitted to the School Education Journal PGSD FIP UNIMED will be scanned using Turnitin (similarity check). The similarity threshold is 25%. We will reject manuscripts with a similarity level above 25% and immediately notify the author via email or WhatsApp.