Plagiarism Policy

The HANDASAH Journal Editorial Team acknowledges that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (punishments) if plagiarism is identified in an article submitted for publication in the HANDASAH Journal.

Definition:

Plagiarism is an act intentionally or unintentionally in obtaining or trying to obtain credit or value for a scientific work, by quoting part or all of the work and/or scientific work of another party which is recognized as a scientific work, without stating the source accurately and adequately.

For that, then:

Articles must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Material taken verbally from other sources needs to be clearly identified so that it differs from the original text.

If plagiarism is identified, the Editor in Chief is responsible for reviewing the article and will approve actions according to the level of plagiarism detected, with the following guidelines:

Plagiarism Rate

1. Plagiarize some short sentences from other articles without citing the source. Action: The author is given a warning and a request to change the text and quote correctly.

2. Plagiarized most of the other articles without proper citation and not citing the source.

Action: The submitted article is rejected for publication at the Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar Islamic University: HANDASAH Journal and the author may be penalized for not being allowed to publish at the Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar Islamic University: HANDASAH Journal All article authors are responsible for the content of the articles they submit because they all sign the HANDASAH Journal Publication Ethics Statement Form which will be given when the manuscript is declared accepted. 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 HANDASAH Journal by simultaneously sending it to other journals, and this overlap is found during the reviewer process or after publication, then the action is given according to point 2 above. If plagiarism is found outside the rules above, the editor of HANDASAH Journal has the right to provide sanctions according to the policy of the editor team.

The policy level of similarity with other references in this journal is below 20% which is checked using plagiarism checker software