Plagiarism Policy

1. Introduction:

• All articles submitted to Mabahits Al-Uqud undergo plagiarism screening using Turnitin.
• The journal strictly rejects papers with plagiarism or self-plagiarism.
• Before submitting articles to reviewers, the editorial team checks for similarity/plagiarism tools, ensuring a similarity level of less than 20%.

2. Definition of Plagiarism:

• Plagiarism includes presenting another person’s thoughts or words as one's own without permission, credit, or acknowledgment.
• Forms of plagiarism range from literal copying to paraphrasing without proper citation.

3. Forms of Plagiarism:

• Literal Copying: Reproducing another author’s work word by word, in whole or in part, without permission or proper acknowledgment.
• Substantial Copying: Reproducing a significant part of another author's work without permission or acknowledgment.
• Paraphrasing: Taking ideas, words, or phrases from a source without proper citation or acknowledgment.

4. Similarity Level:

• Mabahits Al-Uqud maintains zero tolerance towards plagiarism.
• Turnitin is used to evaluate the similarity index, and the editor determines possible plagiarism cases.
• Editorial Board Actions:
  • Similarity Index above 40%: Article Rejected (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing; no resubmission accepted).
  • Similarity Index (10-40%): Sent to the author for improvement (correct citations and good paraphrasing required).
  • Similarity Index Less than 10%: Accepted or citation improvement may be required (proper citations for all outsourced texts).
  • In cases 2 and 3: Authors should revise the article, add required citations, do good paraphrasing to outsourced text, and resubmit with a new Turnitin report showing no plagiarism and similarity of less than 20%.