Plagiarism Policy

The ELKOMIKA Editorial Team recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in an article submitted for publication in ELKOMIKA.

Plagiarism is the act of intentionally or unintentionally obtaining or attempting to obtain credit or value for a scientific work, by citing part or all of the work and/or scientific work of another party that is recognized as its scientific work, without declaring the source precisely and adequately.

For this reason, the article must be original, have never been published, and not in the process of waiting for publication elsewhere. Material that is taken verbally from other sources needs to be clearly identified so that it differs from the original text.

If plagiarism is identified, then, the Editor-in-Chief is responsible for reviewing the article and will approve actions according to the level of plagiarism detected, with the following guidelines:

Plagiarism Rate

1. Plagiarizing some short sentences from other articles without mentioning the source. Action: The author is given a warning and a request to change the text and quote correctly.

2. Plagiarizing most other articles without proper citations and not mentioning the source. Action: Submitted article rejected for publication in ELKOMIKA and the author may be sanctioned for not being allowed to publish in ELKOMIKA.

The policy of the level of similarity with other references in ELKOMIKA Journal is below 15 % which is checked using Ithenticate software.