Plagiarism Policy

The Editorial Team of INFOS Journal acknowledges that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore establishes the following policies that state specific actions (penalties) if plagiarism is identified in an article submitted to be published in the INFOS Journal.

Definition:

Plagiarism is an act intentionally or unintentionally in obtaining or trying to obtain credit or value for scientific work, by quoting part or all of the work and/or scientific work of other parties that are recognized as scientific works, without expressing the source appropriately and adequately.

For that, then:

Articles must be original, never published, and not in the process of waiting for publication elsewhere. Material taken verbally from other sources needs to be clearly identified so that it is different from the original text.

We use Turnitin to evaluate each manuscript submission. The Editorial team will not tolerate plagiarism and ethical misconduct in scholarly work from the submitted manuscripts based on the following provisions:

1. Similarity between 30-40% : The editorial inform to the author for major improvement or if the similarity tend to be high and containt plagiarism, the manuscript potentially rejected.
2. Similarity less than 30% : Accepted submission but may be required minor improvement.

The authors should revise the article carefully by improving citations and paraphrasing of the referenced source. Then the author(s) are welcome to resubmit the article with a report showing NO PLAGIARISM and similarity less than 30%.