About the Journal

Focus and Scope

FOCUS

The focus of this journal is an effort to load scientific works related to thoughts or studies in the field of Islamic law and actualize and add to the treasure of a better understanding of Islamic law through the publication of articles and research reports.

SCOPE

Al-Istinbath: Jurnal Hukum Islam encompasses a broad range of research topics in Islamic law:

Islamic Family Law
Islamic Criminal Law
Islamic Politics
Islamic Judicial
Legal Aid in Islam
Islamic Jurisprudence

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted to Al-Istinbath: Jurnal Hukum Islam will undergo a selection and assessment process by the Board of Editors to ensure their accordance with the writing guideline, focus, and scope, and that they are of excellent academic quality. The manuscripts will be reviewed using the single-blind peer review method in which case neither authors nor reviewers know each other identities.

Desk Review. At the desk review stage, manuscripts will be examined to ensure that they have met the writing guideline, focus, and scope with excellent academic quality. If they do not meet the conditions, the author will be given the opportunity to revise their manuscript according to the given criteria. However, there is also the possibility that the manuscript will be directly rejected.

Peer review. When the manuscript has passed the desk review stage, it will then be delivered to reviewers who are experts in the field of the submitted manuscript. The review process will be done within four weeks. Manuscripts that did not successfully pass the desk review process will not proceed to this stage.

Reviewer decision. The reviewers will provide the following recommendations:

Accepted; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication;
Accepted with minor revisions; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication once it is revised in response to the reviewers concerns;
Accepted with major revisions; means that substantive inadequacies in the manuscript, such as data analysis, the main theory used, and rewriting of paragraphs, need to be revised;
Rejected; means that the manuscript is not acceptable for publication or the given reviews relate to very basic issues.

The reviewer decision will be considered by the Board of Editors to determine the ensuing process of the manuscript.

Revision Stage. Once the manuscript has been received with notations of minor or major revisions, it will be returned to the author with a review summary form. For manuscripts accepted with major revisions, authors are allotted four weeks to revise. Whereas for manuscripts accepted with minor revisions, two weeks is allotted for revision.

Final decision. At this stage, the manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Board of Editors to ensure that the author has revised in response to the reviewers concerns. In this final decision, the manuscript may still be rejected if the author did not seriously conduct the revisions necessary.

Publication confirmation. At this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be resent to the author to ensure that the content is in accordance with the author writing. At this stage, the author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the Editorial Secretary will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as a print publication.

Publication Frequency

Al-Istinbath : Jurnal Hukum Islam publishes twice a year (May and November). Each issue number amounts to a minimum of five (5) the title.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge

Step 1: Publication and Authorship

All submitted papers are subject to a strict peer-review process by at least two national or international reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper. Reviewers are being selected by Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief. The author also can propose reviewers for some journals and article types.
The factors that are taken into account in the review are relevance, originality, readability, statistical validity, and language.
The possible decisions include acceptance, minor revisions, major revisions, or rejection.
If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
No research can be included in more than one publication, whether within the same journal or in another journal.

Step 2: Authors Responsibilities

Authors must certify that their manuscript is their original work.
Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere, or even submitted and reviewed in another journal.
Authors must participate in the peer review process and follow the comments.
Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research. The level of their contribution also must be defined in the Authors Contributions section of the article.
Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscripts.
Authors must report any errors they discover in their published papers to the Editors.
Authors must not use irrelevant sources that may help other researches/journals.
Authors cannot withdraw their articles within the review process or after submission, or they must pay the penalty defined by the publisher.

Step 3: Peer Review/Responsibility for the Reviewers

Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information.
Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author. No self-knowledge of the author(s) must affect their comments and decision.
Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments in 400 to 800 words.
Reviewers may identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Step 4: Editorial Responsibilities

Editors (Managing Editor or Editor-in-Chief) have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.
Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.
Editors should make corrections when needed.
Editors should base their decisions solely on the paper's importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to the publication scope.
Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason.
Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.
Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions; they should have proof of misconduct.
Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers, and board members.
Editors must not change their decision after submitting a decision (especially after rejection or acceptance) unless they have a serious reason.

Step 5: Publishing Ethics Issues

The corresponding author is the main owner of the article so she/he can withdraw the article when it is incomplete (before entering the review process or when a revision is asked for).
Authors cannot make major changes in the article after acceptance without a serious reason.
All editorial members and authors must will to publish any kind of corrections honestly and completely.

Plagiarism Check

Al-Istinbath: Jurnal Hukum Islam has a zero-tolerance for plagiarism and unethical behaviour with respect to publishing. Authors must ensure their paper is of the highest standard and that attributions and citations are accurate and the paper is original in its entirety. All papers are systemically reviewed on submission and any detections mean an immediate rejection. The journal applies plagiarism-detection to each submitted manuscript. Plagiarism screening will be conducted by Al-Istinbath Editors uses Turnitin to track the level of similarities and the author will be well-informed about the result of similarities-checking.

Plagiarism occurs when an author takes ideas, information, or words from another source without proper credit to the source. Even when it occurs unintentionally, plagiarism is still a serious academic violation and unacceptable in international academic publications. When the author learns specific information (a name, date, place, statistical number, or other detailed information) from a specific source, a citation is required. (This is only forgiven in cases of general knowledge, where the data is readily available in more than five sources or is common knowledge, e.g., the fact that Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world.) When the author takes an idea from another author, a citation is required even if the author then develops the idea further. This might be an idea about how to interpret the data, either what methodology to use or what conclusion to draw. It might be an idea about broad developments in a field or general information. Regardless of the idea, the authors should cite their sources. In cases where the author develops the idea further, it is still necessary to cite the original source of the idea, and then in a subsequent sentence, the author can explain her or his more developed idea. When the author takes words from another author, citation and quotation marks are required. Whenever four or more consecutive words are identical to a source that the author has read, the author must use quotation marks to denote the use of another author original words; just a citation is no longer enough.

Al-Istinbath Jurnal Hukum Islam takes academic integrity very seriously, and the editors reserve the right to withdraw acceptance from a paper found to violate any of the standards set out above. The journal's editors (in conjunction with the publisher, the reviewer, ethics commission, and/or society) will take responsive measures when ethical concerns are raised with regard to a submitted manuscript or published paper. Every reported act of unethical publishing behaviour will be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication. The editors follow the Cope when dealing with cases of suspected misconduct.

In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication, or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors and members of editorial board [if necessary ethics commision], will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification or, in the most severe case, the retraction of the affected work. Together with the editors, the publisher shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, and under no circumstances encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to occur.

Al-Istinbath Jurnal Hukum Islam takes academic integrity very seriously, and the editors reserve the right to withdraw acceptance from a paper found to violate any of the standards set out above. For further information, potential authors can contact the editorial office at al-istinbath@iaincurup.ac.id or alistinbath@gmail.com.