Screening For Plagiarism Policy

IERS: Jurnal Interaksi Edukatif dan Realitas Sosial is firmly committed to upholding academic integrity, originality, and ethical publishing practices in all submitted and published manuscripts. To maintain these standards, every manuscript submitted to the journal is subject to plagiarism screening prior to entering the peer-review process. The journal uses reputable plagiarism detection software to identify potential textual similarities, overlaps, or unoriginal content. Manuscripts found to contain plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, or other forms of academic misconduct will be rejected immediately. In cases where minor similarity is detected and considered unintentional, authors may be requested to revise their manuscripts and provide appropriate clarification. However, serious ethical violations will result in immediate rejection without further editorial consideration.

The acceptable similarity index for submitted manuscripts is below 20%, excluding references, properly cited quotations, tables of contents, and commonly used academic expressions. Authors are fully responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts respect intellectual property rights and that all sources are appropriately acknowledged and cited in accordance with established academic standards. Through this plagiarism screening policy, JIERS: Jurnal Interaksi Edukatif dan Realitas Sosial seeks to uphold academic integrity, ethical excellence, and scholarly credibility while ensuring that every published article represents an original, rigorous, and meaningful contribution to the advancement of knowledge in education, social sciences, sociology, educational interaction, social realities, and contemporary social issues at local, national, regional, and global levels.