Screening For Plagiarism

Manuscripts submitted to Archipel are screened using Turnitin or iThenticate. Papers that show signs of plagiarism or self-plagiarism are rejected immediately.

Archipel expects all authors to follow international standards of academic integrity, especially when it comes to plagiarism.

Plagiarism happens when an author uses the ideas, information, or words of another source without proper credit. Even when it is unintentional, plagiarism is a serious academic offense and is not acceptable in international academic publishing.

When an author refers to specific information from a source — a name, date, place, statistic, or other detail — a citation is required. The exception is general knowledge, which is information that can be found in more than five sources or is common knowledge (for example, the fact that Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim population in the world).

When an author borrows an idea from another author, a citation is needed even if the idea is then developed further. This applies to ideas about how to interpret data, what method to use, what conclusion to draw, or general points about a field. The author should cite the source first, and then in a following sentence may explain how the idea has been developed.

When an author uses words from another author, a citation alone is not enough. Quotation marks are required whenever four or more consecutive words are taken directly from a source the author has read.

Archipel takes academic integrity seriously. The editors reserve the right to withdraw the acceptance of a paper if it is found to violate any of the standards above. For more information, please contact the editorial office at journalarchipelid@avidpedia.com.