Plagiarism Policy

The Journal of Regional and Urban Planning (JPWK) Editorial Team recognizes that plagiarism is unacceptable and therefore established the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) if plagiarism is identified in an article submitted for publication in the Journal of Regional and Urban Planning (JPWK). For this reason, before submitting, JPWK advises authors to check plagiarism independently. If the article is declared accepted, JPWK will check for plagiarism before it is published.

Definition:
Plagiarism is an act of intentionally or unintentionally obtaining or trying to obtain credit or value for a scientific work, by quoting part or all of another party's work and/or scientific work which is recognized as scientific work, without stating the source accurately and adequately.

For that, then:

Articles must be original, previously unpublished, and not awaiting publication elsewhere. Material taken verbally from other sources needs to be clearly identified so that it is different from the original text.

If plagiarism is identified, then, the Editor-in-Chief is responsible for reviewing the article and will approve action according to the level of plagiarism detected, with the following guidelines:

Plagiarism Level:
1. Plagiarize some short sentences from other articles without citing the source. Action: The author is given a warning and a request to change the text and cite it properly.
2. Plagiarizing large portions of other articles without proper citation and not citing the source. Action: The submitted article is rejected for publication in the Journal of Regional and Urban Planning (JPWK) and the author may be sanctioned for not being allowed to publish in the Journal of Regional and Urban Planning (JPWK)

All article authors are responsible for the content of the articles they submit. If the article is classified as plagiarized, then all authors will be subject to the same action.

If the author is proven to have submitted a manuscript to the Journal of Regional and Urban Planning (JPWK) while simultaneously sending it to another journal, and this is discovered during the review process or after publication, then action will be taken according to point 2 above and the article will be withdrawn.

If an act of plagiarism is found outside the above rules, the editor of the Journal of Regional and Urban Planning (JPWK) has the right to impose sanctions according to the policy of the editorial team.