Ethics and Malpractice
Table of Content
- Introduction
- Duties of Editors
- Duties of Reviewers
- Duties of Authors
- Authorship and Contributorship
- Complaints and Appeals
- Competing Interest
- Data Sharing and Reproducibility
- Intellectual Property (Copyright Policy)
- Ethical Guideline (Ethical Oversight)
- Post-publication discussions and corrections
Introduction
This statement clarifies ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in Journal of Islamic Economic Laws including the authors, the editors, the peer-reviewers and the publisher.This statement is based on COPE's Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication
The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed Journal of Islamic Economic Laws is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the authors, the journal editors, the peer reviewers, the publisher and the society.
Muhammadiyah University Press as publisher of this Journal takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Muhammadiyah University Press and Editorial Board of JISEL will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.
Publication decisions
The editors of Journal of Islamic Economic Laws is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The decision is based on the recommendation of the journal's editorial board members and reviewers. The journal abides by legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor confers with the editorial team and reviewers in making this decision.
Non-Discrimination
The editors and reviewers evaluate manuscripts for intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
Confidentiality
The editor, reviewers, and editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial team, and the publisher, as appropriate.
Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used by any of the editorial board members and reviewers in their own research.
Duties of Editors
1. Publication Decisions
Editors ensure that all submitted manuscripts being considered for publication undergo peer review by at least two reviewers who are experts in the field. The Principal Editor is responsible for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal will be published, based on the validation of the work in question, its importance to researchers and readers, the reviewers’ comments, and such legal requirements as are currently in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The Editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.
2. Fair Play
Editors evaluate submitted manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit (importance, originality, study’s validity, clarity) and its relevance to the journal’s scope, without regard to the author’s race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, religious belief, political philosophy or institutional affiliation. Decisions to edit and publish are not determined by the policies of governments or any other agencies outside of the journal itself. The Principal Editor has full authority over the entire editorial content of the journal and the timing of publication of that content.
3. Confidentiality
Editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
4. Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Editors will not use unpublished information disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit written consent. Privileged information or ideas obtained by editors as a result of handling the manuscript will be kept confidential and not used for their personal advantage. Editors will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers; instead, they will ask another member of the editorial board to handle the manuscript.
Duties of Reviewers
1.Contribution to Editorial Decisions
The journal uses double-blind review process. The reviewers advise the editors in making the editorial decision. The editors communicates with authors, as required, and helps them in improving quality of their research paper.
2.Promptness
The journal editors are committed to provide timely review to the authors. If a reviewer does not submit his/her report in a timely manner, the paper is immediately sent to another qualified reviewer.
3.Confidentiality
Manuscript content is treated with at most confidentiality. The journal uses double blind process. Except for the editors, the editors and reviewers cannot discuss paper with any other person, including the authors.
4.Standards of Objectivity
The editors and reviewers are required to evaluate papers based on the content. The review comment must be respectful of authors. The reviewers are required to justify their decision and recommendation.
5.Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
6.Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. 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, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Duties of Authors
1.Reporting standards
Authors should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work wherever possible. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
2.Data Access and Retention
Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review. They should be prepared to provide such data within reasonable time.
3.Originality and Plagiarism
The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Papers found with such problems are automatically rejected and authors are so advised.
4.Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication
When a paper is submitted for possible publication, the submitting author makes a written statement that the paper has not been published not it is currently under publication with any other journal. Simultaneous submission is considered unethical and is therefore unacceptable.
Authorship and Contributorship
This policy ensures that authors who have made substantial contributions to the intellectual content of an article are recognized and that they are cognizant of their obligations to assume responsibility for the published work.
Authorship
The following criteria are employed to ascertain authorship:
1. Making a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work
2. Acquiring, assessing, or interpreting data for the purpose of the project
3. Writing the work or critically refining it to identify significant intellectual content
4. A commitment to take responsibility for all aspects of the work, including the final approval of the version to be published, and the assurance that any concerns regarding the integrity or veracity of any portion of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Submitting author
The submitting author is primarily responsible for submitting the article to the journal using our manuscript submission system and for communicating with the journal throughout the article submission, peer review, and revision process. They ensure that the journal's administrative obligations are satisfactorily fulfilled. These encompass, but are not restricted to, the collection of conflict of interest forms and statements, the provision of authorship details, the sanction of the ethics committee, and the documentation of clinical trial registration. Although one or more co-authors may delegate these responsibilities, the submitting author bears sole responsibility for them.
When submitting your article through our submission system, you must provide the name, email address, and institutional affiliation of all author contributors. The final published article will contain the author names, institutions, and addresses, which will be derived from the completed portions rather than the Word document that was submitted.
At the time of the research/article's composition, affiliations should correspond to the institutions in which the work was conducted. A confirmation email is sent to all author contributors immediately upon the submission of an article and the subsequent rendering of a final decision.
Corresponding author
The corresponding author is predominantly accountable for the completion of all necessary actions following the acceptance of the manuscript and for maintaining communication with the journal and readers after publication. The corresponding author will receive all communications from Jisel. We maintain a single corresponding author in our system for the purpose of email correspondence and the publication of the article.
AI Authors
In the event that any content is submitted for publication, Jisel will not acknowledge AI technologies as authors. Jisel exclusively recognizes humans as capable of authorship as a result of their responsibility to be accountable for their work.
Alteration to Authorship
If their affiliation changed during the work, the author can identify their current affiliation, the affiliation at the time the work was conducted, or both. The acknowledgements section can provide further clarification regarding the change in affiliation.
The authorization of any change in authors that occurs after the initial submission and before publication is required from all authors. This pertains to amendments, deletions, changes in the order of the authors' names, or modifications to the attribution of contributions. If any modifications are made, the editor must be notified. The editor is authorized to contact any of the authors and contributors to ascertain whether they have given their consent to any modifications.
Contributorship Statement
Contributorship statements must be included in all submitted articles, which should specify the individual contributions to the planning, execution, and reporting of the work described in the article. A contributorship statement should include authors, non-authors, and group authors (collaborators). The contributorship statement should offer a lucid account of contributors who have made substantial contributions to the paper but whose contributions do not warrant authorship.
This space is also the appropriate location to include contributions from participants or members of the public who have served as research volunteers, including their names and specific responsibilities. We strongly advocate for authors to include a comprehensive acknowledgement of the public and participants' contributions to their research, as appropriate.
To be included in the paper, all individuals named in the contributorship statement must grant permission, as readers may infer their endorsement of the data and conclusions. The author submitting the work bears the responsibility of obtaining permission and providing evidence if necessary.
The contributorship statement must explicitly identify the individual responsible for the overall content as the guarantor. Having access to the data and control over the publication decision, the guarantor assumes full responsibility for the completed work and the study's execution.
Acknowledgements
The paper may end with an acknowledgments statement listing those who contributed to the research but were not recognized, as well as personal thanks. It is highly recommended that authors obtain permission from all acknowledged individuals before submitting to any Jisel, as acknowledgment may be interpreted as endorsement of a study's data and conclusions by acknowledgment recipients.
Complaints and Appeals
For handling complaints concerning the journal, its editorial staff, editorial board, or its publisher, Jisel shall have a well outlined system. Regarding the complaint situation, the complaints will be explained to respectable people. Any aspect of the journal business process might be the subject of a complaint, including the editing process, unethical editors/reviewers, peer review manipulation, and so on. According to COPE standards, the complaints will be addressed. For this reason, Jisel has legal experts in the field of Intellectual Property rights as the Ethics Advisory Board.
Competing Interest
The journal editor should be informed of any competing interests that the authors may have in order to make the most informed decision regarding the manuscript. We do not intend to eliminate competing interests, as they are nearly inevitable. We will not reject papers solely on the basis of the authors' competing interests; however, these interests will be disclosed in the published paper. The subsequent information should be disclosed by authors:
• Their affiliations with commercial entities that provided financial support for the research described in the submission.
• Any financial associations involving their spouse or children under 18 years of age.
- Non-financial associations that may be relevant to the submitted manuscript.
- Their associations with commercial entities that could be viewed as having an interest in the general area of the submitted manuscript.
Data Sharing and Reproducibility
JISEL encourages transparency and accountability in research. Authors are expected to present their findings clearly and provide sufficient detail to allow others to understand and, where applicable, reproduce the results.
Data Availability
All data supporting the findings should be properly cited or described within the manuscript, including how the data were obtained and processed. If necessary, readers may request access to the data directly from the corresponding author. Authors are fully responsible for managing and providing access to their data.
Confidential Data
For studies involving sensitive or confidential information, authors must ensure proper anonymization. Access to such data may be restricted in accordance with ethical and legal standards.
Reproducibility
Authors should describe their research methods, data sources, and analytical procedures in enough detail to allow verification or replication by others where appropriate.
Intellectual Property (Copyright Policy)
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Journal of Islamic Economic Laws is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Ethical Guideline (Ethical Oversight)
Ethical oversight should encompass policies regarding consent to publication, publication on vulnerable populations, ethical conduct of research using animals, ethical conduct of research using human subjects, handling confidential data, and ethical business/marketing practices, as per the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The Jisel dedicates itself to evaluating appeals pertaining to our authors' non-observance of ethical principles.
Research Involving Human Subjects
Authors must include a statement that the studies have been approved by the appropriate institutional and national research ethics committee and have been conducted in accordance with the ethical standards outlined in the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/), revised in 2013, and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards, when reporting studies that involve human participants.
If there is any doubt about whether the research followed the 1975 Helsinki Declaration or similar standards, the authors must explain their methods and show that the independent ethics committee or institutional review board approved the parts of the study that are in question. The article's "Ethical Approval" section should at the very least include a statement that specifies the project identification code, date of approval, and name of the ethics committee or institutional review board.
The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was endorsed by the Ethics Committee of XXX (Project identification code). All subjects provided informed consent for inclusion prior to participating in the study.
Post-publication discussions and corrections
Jisel appreciates reader feedback and corrections on previously published articles. A reader has the option to submit an email to the editor-in-chief with comments and corrections regarding an article that has already been published. If accepted, the editor-in-chief will publish the comments and revisions as a letter to the editor in the subsequent edition. The editor in chief may be contacted by esteemed writers to respond to suggestions from readers and revisions. If appropriate, the response may be published as a response to a letter to the editor.
