Plagiarism Policy

The editors of JULIAN: Journal of LAW Education and Legal Science recognize that plagiarism is unacceptable, and therefore establish the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in an article submitted to our journal.

Definition: 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 stating the source accurately and adequately. The article must be original, unpublished, and not in the process of waiting for publication elsewhere.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 editorial board is responsible for reviewing the article and will approve actions according to the level of plagiarism detected, with the following guidelines:

Plagiarizing some short sentences from other articles without mentioning the source. The author will be given a warning and a request to change the text and quote correctly. Plagiarize most other articles without proper citations and not mentioning the source. Submitted articles will be rejected for publication in JULIAN: Journal of LAW Education and Legal Science and authors may be sanctioned not to be allowed to publish in JULIAN journals.

If the article is classified as plagiarism, then all authors will be subject to the same action. If the author is proven to have submitted a manuscript to the JULIAN journal by simultaneously submitting it to another journal, and this overlap is found during the reviewer process or after publication, then action will be taken according to the point above.

Editors will run plagiarism checks using Turnitin or iThenticate software for incoming articles before submitting them to reviewers. If an article has a plagiarism rate of more than 15%, it will be rejected or reverted for revision first. Authors can resubmit/revise articles after the similarity index is less than 15% for total similarity and less than 2% for each source/bibliography.