Correction and Retraction Policy

Correction and Retraction Policy

Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur'an dan Hadis

Faculty of Ushuluddin and Islamic Thought, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta

1. Purpose

Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur'an dan Hadis is committed to maintaining the accuracy, transparency, and integrity of the published scholarly record. This policy explains how the journal handles corrections, addenda, expressions of concern, retractions, and article removal when errors or ethical problems are identified after publication.

The journal does not silently change the scholarly record. When a post-publication update affects the meaning, reliability, authorship, ethics, or status of an article, the journal will make the update transparent to readers.

2. Reporting a Concern

Authors, readers, reviewers, editors, institutions, or other parties may notify the editorial office if they identify a possible error or ethical concern in a published article. Reports should describe the issue clearly and provide supporting evidence where possible.

The editorial team will assess the concern according to its nature, seriousness, available evidence, and effect on the reliability of the article. Where needed, the journal may contact authors, reviewers, editorial board members, the publisher, institutions, or other relevant parties before deciding on the appropriate action.

3. Minor Updates and Formal Corrections

Minor updates may be made when the issue does not affect the scholarly meaning or reliability of the article. These may include typographical errors, formatting problems, broken links, metadata errors, or technical display issues. A separate notice may not be required when the correction is purely technical.

A formal correction notice may be published when an error affects the article record but does not invalidate the main argument or findings. This may include significant errors in author information, funding statement, acknowledgement, data presentation, citation, translation, transliteration, table, figure, source description, or methodological explanation. The notice will identify the article, explain the correction, and be linked to the original article wherever technically possible.

4. Addenda and Expressions of Concern

An addendum may be published when additional information is needed to clarify or complete a published article without changing its main argument. This may include missing source information, manuscript identifiers, data availability details, ethical clarification, or relevant methodological information.

An expression of concern may be issued when serious questions have been raised but the available evidence is not yet sufficient for a correction or retraction. This may happen while an investigation is ongoing or while the journal is waiting for information from authors, institutions, or other relevant parties. When the matter is resolved, the expression of concern may be followed by a correction, retraction, clarification, or notice that no further action is required.

5. Retractions

A retraction may be issued when the journal determines that an article is unreliable, unethical, or invalid as part of the scholarly record. Grounds for retraction may include plagiarism, fabricated or falsified data, manipulated evidence, serious citation manipulation, duplicate publication, undisclosed prior publication, unethical research conduct, unauthorized use of copyrighted or restricted material, serious authorship manipulation, or major errors that undermine the article's conclusions.

Retraction notices will identify the article, explain the reason for retraction, and remain linked to the original article wherever technically possible. Retracted articles will be clearly marked as retracted. The journal will not silently remove retracted articles because readers must be able to understand the status of the publication record.

6. Article Removal

Article removal will be considered only in exceptional circumstances, such as legal requirements, serious privacy violations, defamatory content, court orders, copyright infringement that cannot be resolved by correction, or content that may cause serious harm. When removal is necessary, the journal will retain a public notice explaining why the content is unavailable, unless legal restrictions prevent such notice.

7. Author Responsibilities

Authors must notify the editorial office promptly if they discover a significant error, omission, inaccurate citation, incorrect translation, data problem, or ethical issue in their published article. Authors are expected to cooperate with the journal in preparing corrections, clarifications, or other post-publication notices. Questions or reports should be sent to jurnalqurdis@uin-suka.ac.id.

 

Approved by: Editorial Board of Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur'an dan Hadis

Last updated: 1 May 2026