Plagiarism Policy

International Journal of Innovation in Teaching and Learning Technology (IJITLT) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity, originality, and ethical scholarly publishing. The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, text recycling, or any other form of inappropriate appropriation of another person's ideas, words, data, or intellectual work.

All manuscripts submitted to IJITLT are subject to plagiarism and similarity screening as part of the initial editorial assessment. Similarity screening is conducted using appropriate plagiarism-detection software before a manuscript is forwarded to the peer review process and may be repeated at subsequent stages when deemed necessary.

Similarity Threshold

As a general editorial guideline, manuscripts should meet the following similarity criteria:

  • Maximum overall similarity: 15%

  • Maximum similarity from a single source: 2%

The similarity percentage is used as an initial screening indicator and does not, by itself, determine whether plagiarism has occurred. The Editorial Board will assess the nature, context, and sources of the identified similarities before making an editorial decision.

Similarity resulting from the following legitimate elements may be excluded or considered separately where appropriate:

  • bibliography or reference list;

  • properly identified and formatted direct quotations;

  • standard technical, methodological, or procedural terminology;

  • commonly used academic expressions;

  • names of institutions, organizations, programs, or instruments;

  • article titles and other unavoidable metadata; and

  • other standard phrases that do not constitute evidence of inappropriate text reuse.

Editorial Assessment

Manuscripts with similarity exceeding the recommended threshold may be subject to additional editorial assessment. Depending on the nature and extent of the similarity, the Editorial Board may:

  1. request the authors to revise and properly paraphrase or cite the relevant material;

  2. request clarification regarding the source of the similarity;

  3. return the manuscript for substantial revision;

  4. reject the manuscript before peer review; or

  5. initiate further investigation when there is a reasonable indication of plagiarism or other publication misconduct.

A high similarity score does not automatically constitute plagiarism, while a low similarity score does not necessarily guarantee originality. Editorial decisions are therefore based on both similarity reports and substantive academic assessment.

Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism

Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:

  • presenting another person's words, ideas, data, figures, or findings as one's own without appropriate attribution;

  • copying substantial portions of another work without proper citation;

  • inappropriate paraphrasing without acknowledging the original source;

  • submitting another person's work under one's own authorship;

  • reusing substantial portions of the author's own previously published work without appropriate citation or disclosure (self-plagiarism); and

  • submitting substantially overlapping or duplicate manuscripts to multiple journals.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that all ideas, quotations, data, figures, tables, and other materials derived from external sources are appropriately acknowledged and cited.

Manuscript Withdrawal and Post-Publication Action

If plagiarism or significant text duplication is identified after publication, the journal may take appropriate corrective action in accordance with its Publication Ethics policy. Such actions may include issuing a correction, publishing an expression of concern, retracting the article, or notifying the relevant institution or authority where appropriate.

Authors found to have committed serious or deliberate plagiarism may be subject to restrictions on future submissions to the journal.

Author Responsibility

By submitting a manuscript to International Journal of Innovation in Teaching and Learning Technology, authors confirm that the manuscript is their original work, that all sources have been properly acknowledged, and that the manuscript is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.

Authors are encouraged to conduct their own similarity check before submission and to ensure that all borrowed material is appropriately quoted, paraphrased, cited, and referenced.

The final determination of plagiarism or other forms of publication misconduct rests with the Editorial Board of International Journal of Innovation in Teaching and Learning Technology, taking into consideration the similarity report, the context of the identified overlap, applicable publication ethics standards, and the authors' explanations where appropriate.