Plagiarism Policy

Preventing plagiarism, inappropriate reuse, and misrepresentation of scholarly contributions.

Jurnal Harkat: Media Komunikasi Gender is committed to originality, proper attribution, ethical authorship, and responsible scholarly publication.

The journal uses Turnitin or appropriate similarity-detection tools to support originality screening. In accordance with its Publication Ethics requirements, manuscripts must have a similarity score below 20%.

Similarity reports are evaluated by editors in context. Matching text does not automatically constitute plagiarism, and a score below the threshold does not establish the absence of plagiarism.

Plagiarism occurs when a person uses another individual's words, ideas, data, findings, images, methods, or other intellectual contributions without appropriate attribution, thereby misrepresenting their origin.

Plagiarism may occur regardless of whether the material was obtained from a journal, book, thesis, website, conference paper, report, unpublished manuscript, or another source.

Permission to reuse material does not remove the requirement for proper attribution. Reusing substantial portions of one's previously published work without appropriate disclosure may constitute inappropriate self-plagiarism or redundant publication.

Manuscripts may be screened before peer review and, when necessary, during revision or before final publication.

1. The Editorial Team evaluates the similarity report and identifies relevant matches.
2. Similarity is assessed with consideration of citations, quoted material, methodology, reference lists, and the nature of the overlap.
3. Manuscripts not meeting the stated similarity requirement may be returned for correction or rejected.
4. Suspected plagiarism is examined in context using relevant evidence and appropriate author clarification.
5. The Editorial Team determines proportionate action according to the severity and nature of the problem.

If plagiarism concerns arise after publication, the Editorial Team will evaluate relevant evidence, invite clarification where appropriate, and consider corrective action under the journal's publication-ethics procedures.

Depending on the seriousness and effect on the scholarly record, action may include a correction, Expression of Concern, retraction, or referral to the authors' institutions.

Retraction is intended to correct the scholarly record and must not be treated as an automatic penalty for minor attribution errors.

• Submit original and properly attributed scholarly work.
• Use citations and quotation marks where appropriate.
• Acknowledge sources of text, data, ideas, images, and research methods.
• Disclose significant overlap with previously published or posted work.
• Do not fabricate citations, references, or source documentation.
• Review similarity reports and correct attribution issues responsibly.
• Respond accurately to editorial inquiries concerning originality.
• Ensure that AI-assisted material does not introduce plagiarism or invented sources.

Jurnal Harkat requires proper acknowledgment of scholarly contributions and evaluates suspected plagiarism fairly, consistently, and on the basis of evidence rather than software percentages alone.