Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published by Sharia Faculty, State Islamic Institute of Kudus, Kudus, Indonesia

Focus

JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah emphasizes the study of Islamic Family Law, Sharia Economic Law and Islamic law in Islamic countries in general and specifically in Indonesia by emphasizing the theory of Islamic Family Law, Sharia Economic Law and Islamic law and its practice in the Islamic world that developed in attendance through publications of articles and book reviews. 

Scope

JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah specializes in studying the theory and practice of Islamic Family Law, Sharia Economic Law and Islamic law in Islamic countries and is intended to express original researches and current issues. This journal welcomes the contributions of scholars from related fields warmly that consider the following general topics;

  • Islamic Law as A Living Law
  • Islamic Family Law
  • Law and Social Studies
  • Constitutional Law (Fiqh Siyasah)
  • Penal Law (Fiqh Jinayah) and Criminology
  • Jurisprudence
  • Islamic Astronomy Observatory
  • The Field of Worship Fiqh
  • Sharia economic law
  • Sharia management law
  • Sharia banking law
  • Law of sharia financial institutions
  • Non-bank financial industry law
  • Sharia economics
  • Islamic law

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah uses a double-blind policy review, the initial authors and articles are not displayed until the articles are accepted for further review and publication. Each article sent will be evaluated on the basis of the following considerations:

  • The results of scientific work are the work of the Original
  • Conformity between methodologies and research topics
  • Have a good analysis
  • The ability to communicate with readers
  • Based on the recommendations of the reviewer
  • The normal time for screening and evaluation of manuscripts is four to six months from the date of receipt
  • Articles submitted to JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah can use Indonesian, English, or Arabic. However, abstracts must be in Indonesian and English.

Editor of JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah has the full right to decide whether the article is accepted or rejected

 

Publication Frequency

JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmih Mahasiswa Syariah  is published 2 times per year (June and December)

For the June Issue

Articles will be published no later than 30 June every year

For the December Issue

Articles will be published no later than 30 December every year

Please submit your article using our online journal system

 

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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics

JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah is a peer-reviewed national journal, available in print and online and published two times a year. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the editorial board, the peer-reviewer­­­­­ and the publisher of Sharia Faculty, State Islamic Institute of Kudus, Kudus, Indonesia.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah 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 author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.

Sharia Faculty, State Islamic Institute of Kudus, Kudus, Indonesia, as publisher of JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing 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.

Publication Decisions

The editor of the JIMSYA: Julnal Ilmu Syariah is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair Play

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor 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.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author.

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee 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 himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

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.

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

Reporting Standards

Authors of reports of original research 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. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

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.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 

 

Publication Fees

At the moment, JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah does not charge for the submitted articles. All processes of article publication are free of charge.

 

References management

Every articles subbmitted to JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah have to use references manajement softwere. eg Mendeley or zotero

 

Copyrights, Permissions, Reprints & Licensing

JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah uses license CC-BY-SA or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly works. This license permits anyone to compose, repair, and make derivative creation even for commercial purposes, as long as appropriate credit and proper acknowledgment of the original publication from Tawazun: Journal of Sharia Economic Law is made to allow users to trace back to the original manuscript and author. Readers are also granted full access to read and download the published manuscripts, reprint, and distribute the manuscript in any medium or format.

 

Correction and Retraction Policies

The papers published in the JIMSYA: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah will be considered to retract in the publication if: 

  1. They have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error)
  2. the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication)
  3. it constitutes plagiarism
  4. it reports unethical research 

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf.