Plagiarism Screening
TIME Journal: Transformation of Islamic Management and Education strictly upholds academic integrity and has a zero-tolerance policy regarding plagiarism, data fabrication, and falsification. All submitted manuscripts are subjected to rigorous plagiarism detection procedures to ensure originality before they are forwarded to the peer-review process.
1. Screening Tools Every manuscript submitted to the TIME Journal will be screened for potential plagiarism using industry-standard similarity-checking software, primarily Turnitin (or iThenticate).
2. Similarity Threshold The maximum acceptable similarity index is 20%. When calculating the similarity index, the following elements are excluded from the screening parameters:
Ø References / Bibliography
Ø Direct quotations (properly enclosed in quotation marks)
Ø Standard affiliations and author details
3. Handling of Plagiarism
Ø Initial Submission: If a manuscript exhibits a similarity index between 21% and 30%, it will be returned to the corresponding author for immediate revision and paraphrasing.
Ø Outright Rejection: Manuscripts with a similarity index exceeding 30%, or those demonstrating clear evidence of deliberate plagiarism (e.g., copying entire paragraphs from a single source without attribution), will be rejected instantly without undergoing peer review.
Ø Post-Publication Discovery: If plagiarism is discovered after an article has been published, the editorial board will conduct an investigation in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. If proven guilty, the article will be formally retracted, and a retraction notice will be published. The authors may also be permanently banned from submitting future manuscripts to the journal.
