Plagiarism Policy

Team Editorial Jurnal Biologi Babasal acknowledges that plagiarism is unacceptable and has established the following policy detailing specific actions (penalties) to be taken when plagiarism is found in an article submitted for publication in Jurnal Biologi Babasal.

Definition: Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit or value for scientific work by citing any or all of another party's work and/or scientific work recognized as its scientific work, without appropriately and fully indicating the source.

For that, then: Articles must be original, have never been published and are not currently being evaluated for publication elsewhere. Material acquired verbally from other sources must be clearly noted to distinguish it from the original text. The journals use industry-standard software "Turnitin" (Maximum 20% of similarity will be tolerate) to verify all submissions for plagiarism, and if plagiarism is discovered during the peer review process, the manuscript may be rejected. In cases where plagiarism is discovered after publication, an investigation will be conducted, and appropriate action will be taken in accordance with the journals' policies.

If plagiarism is revealed, the Editor-in-Chief is responsible for reviewing the article and will approve the action based on the level of the plagiarism revealed, according to the rules below:

Plagiarism Level

  • Plagiarizing some short sentences from other articles without mentioning the source, the author is given a warning and request to change the text and quote correctly.

  • Plagiarized most other articles without proper citations and did not mention the source, submitted articles are rejected for publication in Jurnal Biologi Babasal and authors may be sanctioned for not being allowed publication in Jurnal Biologi Babasal.

All authors are responsible for the content of the articles they submit. If the article is found to be plagiarized, all authors will face the same punishment. If it is confirmed that the author submitted a paper to Jurnal Biologi Babasal while also submitting it to other journals, and this overlap is found during the reviewer process or after publication, action is taken following point 2 above. If plagiarism is discovered outside the above-mentioned standards, the editor of Jurnal Biologi Babasal has the authority to impose punishments following the editor's team's policy.