Journal of Maritime Defense Technology (JMDT) upholds the highest standards of research integrity, academic honesty, and publication ethics. All manuscripts submitted to JMDT are subjected to rigorous plagiarism screening to ensure originality and compliance with ethical publishing standards.

The journal utilizes Turnitin and other advanced similarity detection software to examine each submission for potential overlap with previously published materials, including journal articles, conference proceedings, books, theses, technical reports, policy documents, institutional reports, and online content. Authors are expected to ensure that their work is original, properly cited, and free from plagiarism, falsification, fabrication, redundant publication, and inappropriate reuse of previously published material.

Manuscripts found to contain unethical practices, including significant uncredited use of another author’s work, improper paraphrasing, data manipulation, duplicate submission, or extensive self-plagiarism, may be rejected immediately or returned for revision depending on the severity of the case. In serious cases, the editorial team may take further action, including retraction of published articles and reporting to the relevant institutions or authorities if necessary.

Authors are strongly encouraged to cite all sources accurately, paraphrase appropriately, and ensure that all borrowed ideas, data, images, figures, maps, diagrams, technical materials, and textual content are properly acknowledged. For manuscripts involving maritime defense technology, naval systems, cybersecurity, surveillance, autonomous systems, or strategic defense studies, authors must also ensure that all technical and institutional sources are used ethically and legally.

By submitting a manuscript to JMDT, authors agree that their manuscript may be screened for textual similarity and understand that violations of plagiarism and publication ethics policies may result in rejection, revision, retraction, or other editorial actions.

To check the possibility of plagiarism, each submitted manuscript is screened using the Turnitin application. Upholding ethical publishing practices is a fundamental commitment of JMDT to preserve the integrity, credibility, and reliability of the scholarly record.