Kitaba: Journal of Interdisciplinary Arabic Learning is committed to maintaining academic integrity and strongly opposes plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, and other forms of publication misconduct.

All submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism and text similarity before being sent for peer review. Kitaba: Journal of Interdisciplinary Arabic Learning uses Turnitin as a plagiarism detection tool to identify similarities between submitted manuscripts and previously published or publicly available works.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submitted manuscripts are original and properly acknowledge and cite the work of others. Any use of another person's ideas, words, data, or other intellectual contributions must be appropriately cited and referenced.

The journal generally applies a maximum similarity threshold of 20% for submitted manuscripts. Manuscripts exceeding this threshold may be returned to the authors for revision or rejected, depending on the nature and extent of the similarities.

If plagiarism or substantial similarity is identified during the screening process, the manuscript may be returned to the authors for clarification or revision, or rejected depending on the severity of the case. Cases of suspected plagiarism or other forms of publication misconduct will be handled in accordance with the journal's publication ethics policy and applicable scholarly publishing standards.

Authors are also responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts have not been published previously and are not under consideration for publication in another journal.

Authors are encouraged to use reference management software such as Mendeley, Zotero, or EndNote to ensure accurate and consistent citation and referencing.

However, a similarity score is not by itself considered evidence of plagiarism. The editorial team evaluates the similarity report and determines the appropriate action based on the context and nature of the matched text.