Plagiarism Policy

Statement and Policy

Asshika: Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning applies zero tolerance towards plagiarism and establishes the following policy, stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified in an article submitted for publication in AI (Artificial Intelligence).

Definition: 

Plagiarism involves the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's original work."

Policy: 

Papers must be original, unpublished, and not pending publication elsewhere. Any material taken verbatim from another source needs to be identified as different from the present original text by

(1) indentation; (2) use of quotation marks; and (3) identification of the source.

If you copy more than two or three sentences of text or the equivalent from another source, you need permission from the owner of the copyright and, if possible, the original author(s). You also need to properly credit the source, such as by saying that it was published before.

All submitted papers will be checked for similarity by .

When plagiarism is identified, the principal editor responsible for the review of this paper will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the paper in accordance with the following guidelines:

Similarity Level

ASSHIKA Journal practices zero tolerance toward plagiarism. We use iThenticate to evaluate the similarity index, and then the editor decides the case of possible plagiarism (a similarity report will be provided to the author). The editorial board has taken the following actions:
1. Similarity Index above 20%: Article Rejected (due to poor citation and/or poor paraphrasing, article outright rejected, NO RESUBMISSION accepted).
2. Similarity Index (10–20%): Send to the author for improvement (provide correct citations to all places of similarity and do good paraphrasing even if the citation is provided).
3. Similarity index Less than 20%:  Acceptance or citation improvement may be required (proper citations must be provided for all outsourced texts).
In cases 2 and 3, the authors should revise the article carefully, add the required citations, and paraphrase outsourced text well. And resubmit the article with a new iThenticate report showing NO PLAGIARISM and less than 20% similarity.