Plagiarism & Similarity Screening

All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Interdisciplinery Islamic Studies are subject to similarity screening before publication.

The journal uses [iThenticate / Turnitin / other service actually used] to assist editors in identifying inappropriate textual overlap.

Similarity scores are not treated as automatic proof of plagiarism.

Editors evaluate the nature and location of similarities because legitimate matches may arise from:

• properly cited quotations;
• Qur’anic verses;
• Hadith texts;
• commonly used translations;
• standard terminology;
• research methodology;
• institutional names;
• references; and
• other unavoidable scholarly expressions.

However, unattributed copying, improper paraphrasing, substantial duplicate publication, or inappropriate reuse of previously published material may result in rejection or further investigation.

If the journal adopts a similarity threshold, it should be stated transparently as:

Maximum Similarity Guideline: [XX%]

The final decision is based on editorial evaluation rather than similarity percentage alone.

 

Related Policies:
Research Misconduct | Publication Ethics | Author Guidelines