Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society (PJILS)
Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society (PJILS) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity and publication ethics. All submitted manuscripts are subject to plagiarism and similarity screening before entering or completing the editorial and peer-review process. Authors are responsible for ensuring that all ideas, quotations, data, arguments, and materials derived from other sources are properly acknowledged and cited.
The overall similarity score should normally not exceed 20%.
Manuscripts may be screened using iThenticate or Turnitin.
Copying words, sentences, paragraphs, arguments, or other material from another source without quotation marks, proper citation, or appropriate acknowledgment.
Combining phrases, sentences, or ideas from one or more sources with minor modifications while failing to provide appropriate attribution.
Rewriting another author's work only superficially while retaining substantially the same language, structure, or argument without proper acknowledgment.
Presenting another person's original concept, argument, interpretation, analytical framework, or research insight as one's own without proper citation.
Reusing substantial portions of one's own previously published work without appropriate citation, acknowledgment, or disclosure, including duplicate or redundant publication.
Misrepresenting, fabricating, omitting, or inaccurately attributing sources in a manner that obscures the actual origin of information or scholarly material.
Submitted manuscripts may be screened using iThenticate or Turnitin during the preliminary editorial evaluation.
The Editorial Team examines the similarity report to identify the sources and nature of matched text, including whether similarities arise from appropriately quoted material, legal documents, references, commonly used terminology, or potentially inappropriate text reuse.
Manuscripts with an overall similarity index exceeding 20%, or manuscripts showing problematic textual overlap regardless of the total percentage, may be returned to the author for revision or rejected when substantial plagiarism is identified.
Revised manuscripts may be screened again before final acceptance or publication to ensure that identified similarity or plagiarism concerns have been appropriately resolved.
Authors must ensure that manuscripts are original and that all borrowed ideas, language, data, illustrations, and other materials are properly cited. Direct quotations must be clearly identified, and paraphrased material must accurately acknowledge the original source. Authors are also responsible for appropriately citing their own previously published work where relevant.
Where substantial plagiarism is identified before publication, PJILS may reject the manuscript and take appropriate editorial action. If plagiarism is discovered after publication, the journal may issue a correction, expression of concern, retraction, or other appropriate notice in accordance with its publication ethics policies and the seriousness of the case.
Pakungwati Journal of Islamic Law and Society uses plagiarism screening as one component of a broader commitment to originality, academic honesty, responsible citation, and integrity in scholarly publishing.
