Journal of Ushuluddin and Islamic Thought (JUIT) is resolutely committed to upholding the paramount standards of publication ethics and scholarly integrity. The journal adheres assiduously to the principles and exemplary practices promulgated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME)., thereby ensuring the probity, transparency, and accountability indispensable to the advancement of academic discourse in religious studies, espesially in Tafsir and Hadith Studies.

All participants in the publication enterprise—authors, editors, peer reviewers, and the publisher—are enjoined to comport themselves with unswerving rectitude, candor, and fiduciary responsibility, thus fortifying the edifice of trustworthy scholarly exchange within the ambit of Ushuluddin and Islamic thought.

1. Duties of Editors

Editors assume fiduciary oversight for the impartial evaluation of all tendered manuscripts predicated exclusively upon their substantive intellectual merit, untainted by extraneous considerations of provenance, affiliation, or extraneous bias.

Editorial adjudications shall hinge solely upon the manuscript's scholarly rigor, congruence with the journal's thematic ambit, and its prospective augmentation of the disciplinary corpus.

Editors are imperatively bound to uphold inviolable confidentiality vis-à-vis submitted materials, refraining from any appropriation thereof for personal scholarly pursuits absent the author's explicit written approbation.

Editors must scrupulously eschew conflicts of interest, tendering forthright disclosure of any relational entanglements that might vitiate their deliberative equipoise.

Upon the emergence of ethical perturbations, editors shall proceed consonant with COPE's algorithmic flowcharts and WAME's procedural imperatives, thereby securing procedural rectitude and equitable dispensation.

2. Duties of Authors

Authors are exhorted to embody uncompromising academic probity and ethical vigilance in the ideation, elaboration, and submission of manuscripts.

Tendered works must incarnate genuine original scholarship, unmarred by plagiarism, contrivance, falsification, or superfluous duplication of antecedent publications.

Authors bear the onus of according meticulous attribution to all antecedent scholarly antecedents that have informed their opus.

Each enumerated author must have tendered a substantive intellectual or practical contribution to the inquiry and must ratify the manuscript's terminal iteration.

Latent conflicts of interest—pecuniary, institutional, or interpersonal—must be divulged with unsparing candor.

Inquiries implicating human interlocutors, empirical datum accrual, or hermeneutic methodologies necessitate attestation of requisite ethical sanction and informed participant concurrence, in consonance with prevailing institutional review board stipulations.

3. Duties of Reviewers

Peer reviewers serve as linchpins in sustaining the journal's benchmarks of excellence, dispassion, and methodological precision.

Reviewers are charged with proffering perspicacious, unbiased, and expeditious critiques of manuscripts, calibrated to elevate scholarly discourse.

An impenetrable shroud of confidentiality must envelop all adjudicative deliberations; reviewers are interdicted from exploiting unpublished revelations within the manuscript for proprietary or personal emolument.

Reviewers shall expeditiously notify the editor of any subsisting conflicts of interest or of patent substantive congruences between the manuscript sub judice and extant or pending scholarly artifacts.

Critiques ought to be attuned to refining the manuscript's perspicuity, methodological sinew, and doctrinal salience.

4. Publisher’s Responsibilities

The publisher, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Philosophy, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, stands resolute in buttressing the editorial phalanx's fealty to superlative ethical publishing canons.

The publisher safeguards untrammeled editorial sovereignty, impervious to adventitious commercial or ideological incursions.

Upon the discernment of ethical derelictions, plagiaristic transgressions, or datum adulteration, the publisher shall confederate with the editorial apparatus to enact restorative measures, encompassing errata issuance, retractions, or caveats of concern, in meticulous conformity with COPE and WAME protocols.

The publisher avows scholarly autonomy, limpidness, and inclusivity throughout the journal's intellectual demesne.

5. Allegations of Misconduct

Upon the ascription of ethical malefaction—encompassing plagiarism, citationary chicanery, datum fabrication, or authorship contretemps—the journal shall inaugurate a formal inquest, oriented by COPE's prescriptive schemata and WAME's adjudicative rubrics.

Implicated principals shall be accorded a temperate locus standi to rebut adduced imputations.

Corroborated malfeasances shall engender graduated sanctions apposite to the infraction's magnitude, potentially including manuscript interdiction, posthumous retraction, or remonstrance to apposite institutional stewards.

All inquisitorial proceedings shall transpire beneath the mantle of confidentiality, impartiality, and solicitous regard for the dignity of all principals.

6. Research Ethics and Data Integrity

Authors assume custodial accountability for the ethical husbandry of research subjects. Probes incorporating colloquies, sondages, or anthropic datum mandate corroboration of informed assent elicitation and respondent anonymization.

Empirical datum and appurtenant artifacts must be limned with adamantine fidelity, and authors are adjured to furnish such repositories upon judicious scholarly summons to abet verificatory probity.

7. Open Access and Copyright Policy

JUIT functions as a plenary open-access conduit, bestowing unfettered and instantaneous promulgation of its scholarly repertoire to catalyze the transcontinental percolation of erudition.

Authors preserve proprietary suzerainty over their creations whilst bestowing upon the journal primacy of publication under the aegis of the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

This contrivance sanctions nonproprietary appropriation, dissemination, and replication across media, predicated upon scrupulous ascription to the originating savant and provenance.

References

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). Recommendations on Publication Ethics Policies for Medical Journals.