REFEREE EVALUATION PERIOD

All the articles that are sent to Journal of Islamic Research are put to preliminary consideration for the journal’s aim and objective suitability and agreeing to general terms. Plagiarism, copy and duplicate check is also done by the committee in this step. In case such ethical issues are detected, action will be taken in the framework of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. At this stage, by the result of preliminary consideration the article may be required to edit, declined or sent to at least 2 referees.

The articles are directed to referees by online system.

The authors’ personal and contact information are hidden in order to provide author-referee confidentiality by double-blind method analysis.

Referees who will take part in evaluation are chosen by the editor among the referee committee members having articles on the relevant article’s branch provided that they are not working in the same institution as the author/authors.

Referees should make the evaluation within 20 days. If the referee did not provide an answer within the given time period, the referee’s assignment on the article would be ceased. New referee having the same criteria will be assigned for the article by the editor.

After the referee evaluation, the editor may decline or accept the article or require editing of the article.

If any of the referees’ opinion is negative, the article may be sent to a third independent referee.

Articles to be edited should be sent to the journal with the corrections within 25 days. If there is no answer within the given period and no extension time is required with an excuse, the articles’ processes will be ceased.

The articles coming to the editor after editing for final evaluation are presented to referee evaluation provided the referees want to see the editing. For other cases, they may be rejected with editor initiative or accepted and published.