Plagiarism Screening Policy

Every manuscript submitted to DEPLOY is screened for similarity before peer review.

1. Tool

Screening uses Turnitin under the institutional subscription of [Nama Penerbit], comparing submissions against scholarly publications, web pages, and student work.

2. When Screening Occurs

First, immediately on submission before desk review; second, on the final revised manuscript to ensure no problematic material was introduced during revision.

3. Thresholds

  • ≤ 20% overall with no single source above 5%: acceptable; proceeds to desk review.
  • 21-30%: returned to authors for paraphrasing and citation correction within 14 days, then rescreened.
  • > 30%: rejected, with the similarity report provided to the authors.
  • Any single source above 5%: manual editorial review regardless of the overall figure.

4. Exclusions

Reference lists; properly quoted and cited material; standard technical terms, method names, and institution names; matches below [1]% from a single source; and the authors' own declared preprint.

5. Numbers Are Not the Whole Judgement

The percentage is an aid, not a verdict. Editors read every report manually, paying particular attention to similarity within the Methods, Results, and Discussion sections, which should be the authors' own original work.

6. Author Obligations

Run a similarity check before submitting; attach the report as a supplementary file where available; declare any preprint with its link; and declare when the manuscript derives from a thesis, dissertation, or conference paper, explaining the substantial additional contribution.

7. Theses and Conference Papers

Manuscripts developed from a thesis or conference paper are permitted where the origin is declared at submission, the work contains substantial development such as new data, baselines, or analysis, and the original source is cited. Similarity with the authors' own thesis repository is excluded once verified by the editor.

8. Confidentiality

Similarity reports are internal and accessible only to editors; they are shared with authors when a manuscript is returned or rejected on similarity grounds.