Plagiarism Screening

Manuscripts submitted to Catha Saintifica will be screened using the Turnitin similarity detection tool. Catha Saintifica will immediately reject papers that indicate plagiarism or self-plagiarism with a similarity index exceeding 20%. Catha Saintifica will immediately reject papers that indicate plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Catha Saintifica wants to ensure that all authors exercise due care and adhere to international standards for academic integrity, particularly regarding the issue of plagiarism.

Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, or words from another source without giving proper credit to that source. Even if it occurs unintentionally, plagiarism remains a serious academic offense and is unacceptable in international academic publications.

When authors obtain specific information (names, dates, places, statistics, or other detailed information) from a specific source, citations must be included. (This is only an exception in cases of common knowledge, where the data is readily available in more than five sources or is common knowledge, for example, the fact that Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world.)

When an author takes an idea from another author, a citation is still required even if the author then develops the idea further. This might be an idea about how to interpret data, what methodology to use, or what conclusions to draw. It might also be an idea about broad developments in a field or general information. Regardless of the idea, the author must cite the source. In cases where the author develops the idea further, it is still necessary to cite the original source of the idea, and then in the following sentence, the author can explain the more developed idea.

When the author takes the words of another author, citations and quotation marks are mandatory. Whenever four or more consecutive words are identical to a source the author has read, the author must use quotation marks to indicate the use of the other author's original words; a mere quotation is no longer sufficient.

Catha Saintifica Journal highly values ​​academic integrity, and the editors reserve the right to withdraw acceptance of papers found to violate any of the standards set out above.