Plagiarism Check

To ensure the originality of the articles, Smong Journal uses various plagiarism checkers available. The most common tools used are Google search engine, plagiarism checker, viper, duplichecker.com, and Copyleaks.com. Plagiarism check is conducted in the screening process of the submitted manuscripts. Only plagiarism-free manuscripts are sent to the assigned editor(s) to be followed up with the review process. Submissions with minor plagiarism issues will be notified to revise and resubmit, while manuscript with serious plagiarism issues will be rejected and archived.

 

Document Similarity Policy

The maximum similarity of <15% uses iThenticate or TurnitIn. Minimum reference > 20 comes from 80% of scientific journals, the rest may be sourced from proceedings, patents, research books, research reports.

Author is not allowed to withdraw submitted manuscripts, because the withdrawal is waste of valuable resources that editors and referees spent a great deal of time processing submitted manuscript, money and works invested by the publisher. If author still requests withdrawal of his/her manuscript when the manuscript is still in the peer-reviewing process, author will be punished with paying IDR 1.500.000,- per manuscript, as withdrawal penalty to the publisher. However, it is unethical to withdraw a submitted manuscript from one journal if accepted by another journal. The withdrawal of manuscript after the manuscript is accepted for publication, author will be punished by paying IDR 3.000.000,- per manuscript. Withdrawal of manuscript is only allowed after withdrawal penalty has been fully paid to the Publisher.

If author do not agree to pay the penalty, the author and his/her affiliation will be blacklisted for publication in this journal.