Publication Ethic Statement
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- Preamble and Policy Ownership
- Editorial Independence and Decision-Making
- Responsibilities of Authors
- Authorship and Contributorship
- Originality, Plagiarism, and Citation Ethics
- Research Ethics and Respect for Religious, Cultural, and Manuscript Materials
- Data, Sources, and Research Materials
- Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies
- Responsibilities of Reviewers
- Editorial Responsibilities
- Peer Review and Editorial Decisions
- Conflicts of Interest
- Complaints and Appeals
- Misconduct Handling
- Corrections, Retractions, and Post-Publication Updates
- Publisher Responsibilities and Website Transparency
- Policy Review and Contact
1. Preamble and Policy Ownership
Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur’an dan Hadis is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Faculty of Ushuluddin and Islamic Thought, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. The journal publishes research in Qur’anic studies, hadith studies, tafsir, ulum al-Qur’an, ulum al-hadith, manuscript traditions, living Qur’an and living hadith studies, Islamic intellectual history, and related areas of Islamic scholarship.
This Publication Ethics and Editorial Integrity Policy is developed as the journal’s own working policy. It defines the standards, responsibilities, and procedures followed by authors, reviewers, editors, editorial staff, the editorial board, and the publisher. The policy is intended to protect scholarly integrity, editorial independence, transparency, fairness, and accountability throughout the publication process.
The policy is informed by internationally recognized recommendations on publication ethics, including guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), where relevant to the journal’s scope and workflow. These recommendations are used as references; the operational procedures and responsibilities described here belong to Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur’an dan Hadis.
2. Editorial Independence and Decision-Making
Editorial decisions are made by the editor-in-chief, handling editors, and authorized editorial team members according to the manuscript’s scholarly merit, relevance to the journal’s scope, originality, methodological clarity, ethical compliance, and the quality of peer-review reports.
The publisher and institutional owner support the journal’s academic mission but do not determine the acceptance or rejection of individual manuscripts. Editorial decisions must not be influenced by institutional pressure, author identity, payment status, personal relationships, political interests, religious affiliation, ethnicity, nationality, gender, or ideological background.
The journal does not use acceptance as a reward, favor, or institutional privilege. All submissions follow the same editorial route unless a clearly stated special issue or invited contribution procedure applies.
3. Responsibilities of Authors
Authors are responsible for submitting work that is original, accurate, ethically prepared, and not under consideration elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, authors confirm that all listed authors have approved the submission, that all necessary permissions have been obtained, and that sources, translations, manuscripts, images, tables, interviews, fieldwork materials, and datasets are properly acknowledged.
Authors must present evidence, methods, interpretations, and conclusions honestly. They must not fabricate or falsify data, manipulate citations, misrepresent sources, conceal duplicate submission, or use unauthorized third-party materials. Authors must disclose funding, conflicts of interest, prior dissemination, use of generative AI tools where relevant, and any ethical approval or consent required by the research context.
Authors are expected to respond to editorial and reviewer comments respectfully, correct errors identified during review or production, cooperate with ethics inquiries, and notify the journal promptly if a significant error is found in a submitted or published work.
4. Authorship and Contributorship
Authorship is reserved for individuals who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the manuscript and who can take responsibility for the integrity of the work. Contributions may include developing the research question, designing the argument, collecting or analyzing sources, conducting fieldwork or manuscript study, interpreting findings, drafting the manuscript, critically revising it, and approving the final version.
Individuals who provide administrative support, proofreading, funding acquisition, general supervision, technical assistance, or access to materials should be acknowledged where appropriate, but they should not be listed as authors unless they meet the journal’s authorship expectations.
The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that the author list is accurate, all authors approve the submitted and revised versions, no eligible contributor is excluded, and no honorary, guest, gift, or coercive author is included. Requests to add, remove, or rearrange authors after submission must be sent to the editorial office with a clear explanation and written agreement from all affected authors.
5. Originality, Plagiarism, and Citation Ethics
All manuscripts must be original scholarly work. Authors must clearly acknowledge the ideas, words, arguments, translations, data, images, and findings of others. Copying text without quotation and citation, close paraphrasing without acknowledgement, translating another author’s work without attribution, or reusing substantial portions of one’s own published work without disclosure is not acceptable.
The journal uses plagiarism screening tools and editorial checks. Similarity reports are interpreted by editors in context, not treated mechanically. Depending on the nature and extent of overlap, a manuscript may be returned for correction, rejected, or investigated as a possible ethics case.
Citations should reflect relevant scholarship and evidence. The journal does not permit fabricated references, citation manipulation, coercive citation, irrelevant self-citation, or the omission of key scholarship in order to misrepresent the field. Editors and reviewers may suggest additional references only when they are academically necessary.
6. Research Ethics and Respect for Religious, Cultural, and Manuscript Materials
Research published in the journal may involve interviews, ethnographic observation, living Qur’an or living hadith communities, pesantren, study circles, manuscript owners, archives, religious institutions, digital communities, teachers, students, or other human participants. Authors must treat participants and communities with dignity, obtain informed consent where appropriate, protect privacy and anonymity when required, and avoid harm, coercion, stigma, or misrepresentation.
Because the journal publishes scholarship on Qur’anic and hadith traditions, authors are expected to handle religious texts, manuscripts, oral transmission, archival sources, rare books, images, inscriptions, and community-held materials with scholarly accuracy and cultural sensitivity. Authors must identify sources precisely, respect access conditions, obtain permissions when required, and avoid misleading claims about provenance, ownership, dating, authorship, textual authority, or community practice.
Where formal ethics approval is required by an author’s institution or research context, authors must provide the relevant information. Where formal approval is not required, authors should still explain how ethical issues were considered and managed when the research involves people, communities, restricted materials, or sensitive cultural sources.
7. Data, Sources, and Research Materials
The journal encourages transparency in the use of data, sources, and research materials where this is ethically, legally, and practically possible. Relevant materials may include interview protocols, anonymized field notes, manuscript catalogues, transliteration tables, translation notes, datasets, coding schemes, supplementary images, appendices, or digital humanities files.
Authors are not required to share materials that would violate privacy, copyright, archive agreements, sacred trust, cultural sensitivity, community expectations, or legal restrictions. When materials cannot be shared, authors should explain the reason in the manuscript or in a data availability statement.
Authors are responsible for the accuracy of quotations, translations, transliterations, references, manuscript shelfmarks, and archival descriptions. Where translation choices affect the argument, authors should state whether the translation is their own or cite the translation used.
8. Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies
Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur’an dan Hadis recognizes that generative AI and AI-assisted tools may support limited parts of academic work, such as language refinement, grammar checking, transcription assistance, formatting, reference organization, or data management. However, AI tools may produce inaccurate, biased, incomplete, unverifiable, or fabricated information. Authors remain fully responsible for every claim, citation, translation, interpretation, and conclusion in their manuscript.
AI tools must not be listed as authors or co-authors. Authorship is limited to human contributors who can approve the final manuscript, accept responsibility for the work, disclose conflicts of interest, and respond to questions about the publication. Authors must not use AI tools to fabricate references, hadith citations, Qur’anic interpretations, manuscript data, archival information, field notes, images, or scholarly arguments.
Authors must disclose substantive use of generative AI or AI-assisted technologies when such tools have been used to draft, rewrite, summarize, translate, code, analyze data, generate tables or figures, or otherwise shape the manuscript. Basic spelling checkers, grammar checkers, citation managers, and formatting tools do not require disclosure unless they generate or substantially rewrite scholarly content.
Suggested disclosure statement: During the preparation of this manuscript, the author(s) used [name of tool/service] for [specific purpose]. The author(s) reviewed, verified, edited, and approved all AI-assisted output and take full responsibility for the accuracy, originality, citations, interpretations, and final content of the manuscript.
Reviewers, editors, and editorial staff must not upload submitted manuscripts, reviewer reports, editorial correspondence, unpublished data, or confidential author information into public or third-party AI systems unless the journal has explicitly approved the tool, confidentiality is protected, and permission has been obtained where required.
9. Responsibilities of Reviewers
Peer reviewers support the journal by providing expert, fair, constructive, and timely assessments of manuscripts. Reviewers should accept an invitation only when they have suitable expertise, sufficient time, and no conflict of interest that could compromise independent judgment.
Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential documents. They should evaluate the manuscript’s argument, method, evidence, originality, structure, source use, and contribution to Qur’anic and hadith scholarship. Reviews should be expressed in scholarly language and supported by clear reasoning; personal, hostile, discriminatory, or dismissive comments are not acceptable.
Reviewers should alert the editor confidentially if they suspect plagiarism, duplicate submission, citation manipulation, fabricated data, unethical research practice, unreliable translation, or misuse of sources. Reviewers must not use unpublished material from a manuscript for personal research, teaching, publication, or public discussion.
10. Editorial Responsibilities
Editors of Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur’an dan Hadis are responsible for managing submissions fairly, confidentially, and consistently. Each manuscript is assessed according to its relevance to the journal’s scope, scholarly contribution, methodological clarity, originality, ethical compliance, and the quality of peer-review reports.
Editors are responsible for selecting appropriate reviewers, protecting the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts, managing conflicts of interest, communicating decisions clearly, and ensuring that editorial decisions are based on academic merit rather than personal, institutional, political, financial, or discriminatory considerations. Editors must not use unpublished materials from submitted manuscripts for personal advantage.
When ethical concerns arise before or after publication, editors are responsible for assessing the concern, seeking clarification where necessary, consulting relevant members of the editorial board or publisher, and taking proportionate action to protect the integrity of the scholarly record.
11. Peer Review and Editorial Decisions
The journal uses a double-blind peer-review process unless otherwise stated for a particular manuscript category. The identities of authors and reviewers are protected during the review process as far as the workflow allows.
The usual process includes administrative screening, scope and ethics screening, originality checking, editor assignment, reviewer invitation, peer review, editorial decision, revision assessment, and final production. A manuscript may be declined before external review if it is outside the journal’s scope, incomplete, ethically problematic, or below the journal’s basic scholarly standards.
Editorial decisions may include rejection, major revision, minor revision, acceptance, or withdrawal from consideration for ethical or procedural reasons. A request for revision does not guarantee acceptance. The final decision belongs to the editor, who considers reviewer reports, journal standards, ethical issues, and the manuscript’s contribution.
12. Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest exists when personal, financial, institutional, ideological, professional, or relational factors could reasonably affect, or be perceived to affect, judgment in the publication process.
Authors must disclose relevant funding, sponsorship, institutional interests, professional relationships, personal relationships, paid roles, advisory roles, or public advocacy directly related to the manuscript. Reviewers and editors must also disclose conflicts and decline involvement when independent judgment may be compromised.
Disclosure does not automatically prevent review or publication. The editor-in-chief will determine whether the conflict can be managed, whether another editor or reviewer should be assigned, or whether the manuscript cannot be processed fairly.
13. Complaints and Appeals
Authors, reviewers, readers, or other parties may submit complaints or appeals concerning editorial process, reviewer conduct, publication ethics, factual errors, conflicts of interest, plagiarism, citation manipulation, peer-review manipulation, or post-publication concerns.
Complaints and appeals should be submitted to the editorial office by email at jurnalqurdis@uin-suka.ac.id. A complaint should include the complainant’s name and contact information, the manuscript or article title where relevant, a clear description of the concern, supporting evidence, and relevant dates or correspondence.
The journal will assess whether the concern falls within its responsibility and assign it to an appropriate editor, editorial board member, or publisher representative. Appeals against rejection must identify a procedural error, factual misunderstanding, conflict of interest, or serious misreading; disagreement with academic judgment alone is not sufficient for reconsideration.
14. Misconduct Handling
The journal treats suspected research or publication misconduct seriously whether it is identified before review, during review, after acceptance, or after publication. Possible misconduct includes plagiarism, text recycling without disclosure, duplicate submission, data fabrication or falsification, citation manipulation, peer-review manipulation, undisclosed conflict of interest, authorship manipulation, unauthorized use of copyrighted or restricted material, unethical treatment of participants, and misrepresentation of manuscripts, archives, interviews, translations, or sources.
When a credible concern is received, the journal will record the allegation, conduct an initial assessment, preserve confidentiality, request clarification from the relevant party where appropriate, consult editors or editorial board members, and decide on a proportionate outcome based on available evidence.
Possible outcomes include no further action, request for correction, additional review, rejection, withdrawal, expression of concern, correction notice, retraction, or notification to an institution, funder, or relevant authority when necessary.
15. Corrections, Retractions, and Post-Publication Updates
Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur’an dan Hadis is committed to maintaining the accuracy, transparency, and integrity of the published scholarly record. The journal recognizes that post-publication updates may sometimes be necessary to correct honest errors, clarify published information, address ethical concerns, or protect readers from unreliable findings.
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. The editorial team will assess the concern according to its nature, seriousness, evidence, and effect on the reliability of the article. Where necessary, the journal may contact the author(s), reviewer(s), editorial board members, publisher, institution, or other relevant parties before deciding on the appropriate action.
The journal may take one or more of the following actions:
Minor Updates
Minor updates may be made when the issue does not affect the scholarly meaning, interpretation, or reliability of the article. These may include typographical errors, formatting problems, broken links, metadata errors, spelling mistakes in non-substantive parts, or technical errors in article display.
Minor updates may be corrected directly in the article file, metadata, or website record. When the change is purely technical and does not affect the scholarly content, a separate correction notice may not be required.
Formal Corrections
A formal correction notice may be published when an error affects the article record but does not invalidate the article’s main argument or findings. This may include significant errors in data presentation, author information, funding statement, acknowledgement, translation, transliteration, citation, table, figure, or methodological description.
The correction notice will identify the original article, explain the corrected information, and be linked to the article wherever technically possible. The article file may also be updated with a note indicating that a correction has been issued.
Author Corrections and Editorial Corrections
When an error originates from the author’s submitted or approved content, the journal may publish an author correction. When an error is introduced during editing, production, layout, metadata processing, or website publication, the journal may publish an editorial correction.
In both cases, the purpose is not to assign blame but to ensure that readers have an accurate and transparent scholarly record.
Addenda
An addendum may be published when additional information is necessary to clarify, complete, or contextualize a published article, but the new information does not contradict or invalidate the original article.
Addenda may be considered when important methodological details, source information, manuscript identifiers, data availability notes, or ethical clarifications were not included in the original publication. Addenda are used selectively and must be approved by the editor.
Expressions of Concern
An expression of concern may be issued when serious questions have been raised about a published article but the available evidence is not yet sufficient for a correction or retraction. This may occur when an investigation is ongoing, when the authors’ institution is reviewing the matter, when evidence is incomplete, or when the journal cannot yet determine the reliability of the article.
An expression of concern will identify the article, describe the general nature of the concern, and remain linked to the article. When the matter is resolved, the expression of concern may be replaced or supplemented by a correction, retraction, clarification, or notice that no further action is required.
Retractions
A retraction may be issued when the journal determines that a published 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 remove the article silently, because readers must be able to understand the status of the publication record.
Article Removal or Replacement
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 article or part of the article is no longer available, unless legal restrictions prevent such notice. Where appropriate, corrected or replacement files may be issued with clear information about the change.
Publication of Notices
Correction notices, addenda, expressions of concern, and retraction notices should be published in a way that is visible, permanent, and linked to the original article. Where possible, these notices should include: the title of the affected article; author name(s); publication details; DOI or URL, where available; the type of notice; a clear explanation of the issue; the date of the notice; the editorial action taken.
The journal will make reasonable efforts to ensure that indexing and abstracting services can identify and link post-publication notices to the original article.
Author Responsibilities After Publication
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.
If all authors do not agree on a proposed correction or retraction, the editor may proceed based on available evidence and may note the disagreement where necessary.
16. Publisher Responsibilities and Website Transparency
The Faculty of Ushuluddin and Islamic Thought, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, as the publisher, supports the journal’s scholarly mission, editorial independence, publication infrastructure, online platform, and long-term integrity. The publisher does not interfere with individual editorial decisions.
The publisher supports the public availability of journal policies, accurate metadata, stable article access, website maintenance, and correction of the scholarly record when needed. The journal website should provide clear and updated information about the journal’s aims and scope, editorial team, author guidelines, submission process, peer review, publication ethics, AI policy, plagiarism screening, copyright, fees, open access, archiving, and contact information.
All internal links should be checked regularly. Broken links, outdated pages, duplicated policy pages, inconsistent information, or inaccessible documents should be corrected promptly because website reliability is part of publication integrity.
17. Policy Review and Contact
This policy may be reviewed and updated periodically by the editorial team to reflect changes in journal workflow, publication standards, indexing requirements, ethical guidance, technology, and scholarly practice. Substantial updates should be approved by the editor-in-chief and, where appropriate, discussed with the editorial board and publisher.
Questions, complaints, appeals, or concerns related to publication ethics should be addressed to: Editorial Office, Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur’an dan Hadis, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Islamic Thought, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta. Email: jurnalqurdis@uin-suka.ac.id.
Policy approval: Approved by the Editorial Board of Jurnal Studi Ilmu-ilmu al-Qur'an dan Hadis: 1 May 2026.
Last updated: 1 May 2026.
