EDITORIAL POLICIES
General Information
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Authorship
“Author” is considered to be the independent intellectual contributor to a published study.
Anyone who is indicated as an author should have the characteristics of an author and the ones with these characteristics should be listed in the study in order. The order of the study should be the consensus of the co-authors.
The authors should be prepared to explain the author's list when required.
The corresponding author, after the study is published, should provide data and supplementary information when required.
Any contribution that is not qualified for authorship criteria should be mentioned in the “Acknowledgement” section.
Fundraising, data collection, general supervising of the study group, spell checking or technical editing, reduction and editing alone do not qualify for authorship; therefore they are the titles to be mentioned in the “Acknowledgement” section.
It is the authors’ responsibility to prepare a manuscript that meets scientific criteria.
We support our editors in dealing with any authorship disputes, and also care about transparency in authorship. We integrate with established and emerging industry standards to increase transparency in authorship, for example, ORCID.
Changes in authorship
The writers' names and placement that are indicated in the copyright transfer form will be considered after the process of the manuscript is started.
After this stage;
- A writer's name cannot be added to the manuscript at any time except the writers who signed the copyright transfer form.
- The order of the writers' names cannot be changed.
Acknowledgement
Conflict of interest, financial support, grants, and all other editorials (language editing) and/or technical assistance if present, must be presented at the end of the text.
Peer Review
The Journal of Islamic Research is an unprejudiced and independent; international, equitable, open-access, and a peer-reviewed journal that evaluates the manuscripts by principles of "double-blind" arbitration. (https://www.islamiarastirmalar.com/magazine/en-index.html?page=process ). Acceptance is based on significance, and originality of the material submitted.
If the article is accepted for publication, it may be subject to editorial revisions to aid clarity and understanding without changing the data presented.
Information for Reviewers:
Confidentiality: Reviewers should keep manuscripts, associated material, and the information they contain strictly confidential.
Reviewers staff members must not publicly discuss the authors’ work.
Reviewers must not retain the manuscript for their personal use and should destroy paper copies of manuscripts and delete electronic copies after submitting their reviews.
Promptness: Any selected reviewer who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse him/herself from the review process.
Objectivity: Reviews should be honest, objective and free from personal prejudice. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.
Conflict of Interest
Conflict of interest exists when there is a divergence between an individual’s private interests (competing interests) and his or her responsibilities to scientific and publishing activities such that a reasonable observer might wonder if the individual’s behavior or judgment was motivated by considerations of his or her competing interests.
Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed to the journal at the earliest stage.
- Authors:
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other relevant interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their work. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.
- Reviewers:
Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, funders, or institutions connected to the paper or any relevant interests in organizations that might benefit or suffer from the publication of the work.
The Journal of Islamic Research uses an evaluation system to eliminate reviewer options that are from the same institution as the authors.
- Editors:
Editors should recuse themselves from considering manuscripts (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other members of the editorial board to review and consider) in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers.
The Journal of Islamic Research uses an evaluation system that forwards the editor's manuscripts to other members of the editorial board automatically.
Confidentiality
The Journal of Islamic Research treats submitted manuscripts as confidential documents. No information about the manuscripts, reviews or the decisions is disclosed other than the corresponding author, actual reviewers and journal editor.
Correction and retraction of articles
The editor of the journal decides the magnitude of the corrections. Minor corrections are made directly to the original article. Major corrections may not be acceptable.
When necessary, retraction of articles will be done according to COPE retraction guidelines.
PUBLICATION ETHICS
Plagiarism
Plagiarism takes many forms, from ‘passing off’ another’s paper as the author’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical behavior and is unacceptable. Authors should submit original works and sources must be appropriately cited or quoted.
According to COPE, plagiarism ranges from the unreferenced use of others’ published and unpublished ideas including research grant applications to submission under new authorship of a complex paper, sometimes in a different language. It may occur at any stage of planning, research, writing or publication; it applies to print and electronic versions.
In the Journal of Islamic Research, articles are evaluated together with the plagiarism/similarity report.
Manuscripts with high plagiarism, insufficient originality, serious scientific or technical flaws are rejected.
Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same findings in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently also constitutes unethical behavior and is unacceptable.
In general, an author should not submit for consideration in another journal a previously published paper. Publication of some kinds of articles (eg, clinical guidelines, translations) in more than one journal is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met.
The authors and editor of the journal must agree to the secondary publication, which must reflect the same data and interpretation as the primary document. The primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication.
Duplicate submission
Authors should not submit the same manuscript or similar manuscript based on the same database, in the same or different languages, simultaneously to more than one journal.
Fabrication and falsification of data
Fabrication, manipulation or falsification of data is a violation of this publication ethics.
When scientific misconduct is alleged, or concerns are otherwise raised about the conduct or integrity of work described in submitted or published papers, the journal acts according to the COPE Guidelines.
Citations manipulation
A manuscript should contain only relevant citations. The inclusion of citations that are not relevant to the work is strongly discouraged. Similarly, irrelevant self-citation to increase one’s citation is unethical.
