Plagiarism Policy

All manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Health Law (JHL) must be free from plagiarism. Authors are advised to use plagiarism detection software to check for content similarity. Editors screen submitted articles for plagiarism using anti-plagiarism software (Turnitin). In accordance with Ristekdikti regulations, the maximum allowable plagiarism threshold is 25%.

The Editorial Team of the Journal of Health Law (JHL) considers plagiarism unacceptable. Consequently, the journal has established a policy regarding specific actions (penalties) to be taken if plagiarism is identified or suspected in an article submitted for publication in the Journal of Health Law (JHL).

Definition:
Plagiarism is the act—whether intentional or unintentional—of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit or recognition for a scholarly work by quoting part or all of another party's work and/or scholarly output and claiming it as one's own, without properly and adequately citing the source.

Acts classified as plagiarism include: submitting an article authored by another person without proper citation; paraphrasing without clearly stating the source; and using ideas, theories, data, or information without clearly acknowledging the source.

If plagiarism is detected, the Editor-in-Chief is responsible for reviewing the article and approving an appropriate course of action based on the severity of the detected plagiarism, in accordance with the following guidelines:

Plagiarism Levels & Sanctions:

1.  Plagiarizing short excerpts from another article without citing the source. Action: The author receives a warning and a request to revise the text and provide proper citation.

2. Plagiarizing substantial portions of another article without proper citation or source attribution. Action: The submitted article is rejected for publication in the Journal of Health Law (JHL), and the author may be sanctioned by being barred from publishing in the Journal of Health Law (JHL).

All authors of an article are responsible for the content of their submission, as they are required to sign the Journal of Health Law (JHL) Publication Ethics Statement Form upon the manuscript's acceptance. If the article is found to contain plagiarism, all authors will be subject to the same sanctions.

If an author is found to have submitted a manuscript to the Journal of Health Law (JHL) while simultaneously submitting it to another journal—and this overlap is discovered during the review process or after publication—disciplinary action will be taken in accordance with point 2 above.

Authors submitting articles for publication in the Journal of Health Law (JHL) must guarantee that their manuscripts are free from such issues. If plagiarism is proven to exist in an article, the author must be prepared to accept sanctions in accordance with the law, and the Journal of Health Law (JHL) reserves the right to impose sanctions based on the editorial team's policy.