International Journal of Judicial Law (IJJL)

The International Journal of Judicial Law (IJJL) is committed to the highest standards of integrity in legal scholarship. We maintain a Zero-Tolerance Policy toward plagiarism, data fabrication, and academic dishonesty. Our editorial processes are strictly aligned with the guidelines provided by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It is the mandatory duty of all authors to ensure that their work is original and provides proper credit to the sources of information used.

To maintain international quality, IJJL subjects every manuscript to a multi-stage screening process using the world’s most advanced plagiarism detection technologies:

1. iThenticate®: Every submission is screened against a global database of over 170 million scholarly articles, law reviews, and conference proceedings.
2. Turnitin®: Manuscripts are cross-referenced against institutional repositories, student theses, and vast internet archives.

Note to Authors: IJJL does not accept reports from free or unverified online plagiarism checkers. Only reports generated by the Journal’s licensed iThenticate/Turnitin accounts are considered final.

While legal writing necessitates the use of court citations and statutory language, IJJL enforces the following quantitative and qualitative limits:

1. Overall Similarity Index: Must be below 15% (excluding bibliography and common legal citations).
2. Single Source Similarity: No more than 3% from any individual published source is permitted.
3. Core Content Protection: Regardless of the percentage, the Research Methodology, Legal Analysis, and Conclusion sections must be 100% original. Any significant overlap in these sections will lead to immediate rejection.

As a judicial law journal, we recognize that quoting Court Judgments (Precedents) and Legislative Acts (Statutes) is essential. To avoid false positives in plagiarism reports:

1. All verbatim quotes must be placed within quotation marks ("...").
2. Every quote must be supported by a footnote following the Bluebook (21st Edition) or OSCOLA citation style.
3. Large blocks of quoted text should be avoided unless critical for legal interpretation.

IJJL categorizes the following as serious violations of publication ethics:

1. Direct Plagiarism: Submitting someone else's work as your own.
2. Self-Plagiarism (Text Recycling): Reusing substantial parts of one’s own previously published research without citation or disclosure.
3. Mosaic Plagiarism: Borrowing phrases from various sources and weaving them into a new text without proper attribution.
4. Citation Manipulation: Providing incorrect references or excessive self-citation to bypass similarity checks.

In cases of detected plagiarism, IJJL follows the COPE Flowcharts for standardized disciplinary action:

1. Stage 1 (Internal Inquiry): The Editor-in-Chief reviews the similarity report. If plagiarism is suspected, the author is sent the report and asked for a formal explanation.
2. Stage 2 (Pre-Publication Sanctions): If the explanation is unsatisfactory, the manuscript is rejected. The author may be blacklisted from the journal for a period of 1 to 3 years.
3. Stage 3 (Post-Publication Sanctions): If plagiarism is discovered after publication, IJJL will issue a formal Retraction. A "Retraction Note" will be permanently linked to the article, and the indexing databases (Scopus/DOAJ) will be notified.

By submitting a manuscript to IJJL, the author(s) certify that:

1. The manuscript is original and has not been published elsewhere.
2. All authors have read and approved the final version.
3. Proper permissions have been obtained for any copyrighted material used.
4. The work does not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of any third party.