All manuscripts submitted to FAKUMI MEDICAL JOURNAL undergo thorough originality screening using various detection software including CrossCheck, iThenticate, and Turnitin. The editorial team conducts an initial similarity assessment before forwarding manuscripts to reviewers. To be considered for publication, submissions must maintain a similarity index below 24%.

The journal maintains a strict stance against academic dishonesty. Submissions found to contain plagiarized content or self-plagiarism will be rejected immediately.

Academic dishonesty encompasses various practices where authors present someone else's intellectual work as their own without proper attribution. This misconduct can manifest in several ways:

1. Direct reproduction occurs when authors copy text verbatim from another source—either partially or completely—without obtaining permission, acknowledging the original creator, or providing citation information. This form can be detected through side-by-side comparison of the suspected text with potential original sources.
2. Extensive borrowing involves reproducing significant portions of another author's work without proper authorization, acknowledgment, or citation. The significance can be evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively, similar to intellectual property considerations, where quality refers to the relative importance of the borrowed content in relation to the complete work.
3. Content reframing involves restructuring ideas, phrases, or terminology from external sources into apparently new sentences. This practice becomes unethical when authors fail to cite or acknowledge the original contribution. This more subtle form of academic dishonesty presents greater challenges for detection.