INTRODUCTION

Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith is committed to maintaining the integrity, objectivity, and credibility of the scholarly research it disseminates. Transparency concerning actual or potential conflicts of interest—also termed competing interests—is essential for fostering trust in the academic publishing ecosystem. This policy delineates the obligations of authors, peer reviewers, editors, and journal personnel in identifying and addressing interests that might reasonably be construed as influencing professional judgment or editorial neutrality. Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith formulates this policy in alignment with the ethical standards promulgated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

DEFINITION

A conflict of interest (COI), or competing interest, emerges when an individual's professional judgment concerning core scholarly duties—such as evaluating research validity, manuscript merit, or the integrity of peer review—could be unduly swayed by secondary interests. These secondary interests encompass:

• Financial interests: Including employment, consultancies, stock ownership or equity stakes, honoraria, pending or awarded research grants, patents held or applied for, royalties, compensated advisory positions, expert witness fees, or travel reimbursements linked to the manuscript in question.
• Non-financial interests: Encompassing personal relationships (e.g., familial or intimate associations), academic or professional affiliations (e.g., recent or ongoing collaborations, mentorship roles), institutional affiliations, unpublished rival research, or deeply held personal, religious, or ideological convictions that bear direct relevance to the submission's content or participants.

The existence of a conflict of interest does not ipso facto constitute an ethical breach; nonetheless, its nondisclosure may erode the veracity of the research and the publication enterprise. This policy pertains to all parties engaged with Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith, including authors, reviewers, editorial leadership, board members, and administrative staff.

POLICY

Principle of Full Disclosure

All participants in the Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith publication process are obligated to disclose, proactively and exhaustively, any actual or potential conflicts of interest pertinent to their involvement. In the absence of such conflicts, a declarative statement affirming this must be furnished.

Timing of Disclosure

• Authors: Shall disclose all prospective conflicts at the point of manuscript submission and furnish updates should novel conflicts materialize during peer review or revision stages.
• Peer Reviewers: Shall declare any conceivable conflicts upon receipt of the review invitation and prior to acceptance. Should a conflict surface during the review process, it must be promptly communicated.
• Editors and Journal Staff: Shall report any conflicts capable of impinging upon editorial functions to the Editor-in-Chief or publisher, and shall abstain from adjudicating submissions wherein a material conflict is present.

Assessment and Management of Disclosed Conflicts

xdaxMutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith shall scrutinize all divulged interests to gauge their capacity to introduce bias into the research or editorial deliberations. Remedial measures may encompass:

• Disseminating authors' conflict-of-interest declarations contiguous to the published article.
• Reallocating peer reviewers or editors to mitigate risks to impartiality.
• Declining manuscripts wherein a conflict imperils the foundational integrity of the research.

Publication of Disclosure Statements

Every published article in Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith shall incorporate conflict-of-interest declarations. Where no pertinent conflicts obtain, a statement such as “The authors declare no known competing interests” shall be appended. Funding provenance must likewise be articulated, inclusive of any funder involvement in the research continuum; absent such involvement, this absence shall be expressly affirmed.

Post-Publication Discovery of Undisclosed Conflicts

Upon identification of a substantive undisclosed conflict post-publication, Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith shall initiate an inquiry consonant with COPE protocols. Corrective interventions—ranging from errata issuance, expressions of concern, to retraction—shall be calibrated to the conflict's gravity and its ramifications for research probity.

IMPLEMENTATION PROCEDURES

For Authors

What to Disclose

Authors must avow all financial and non-financial interests that could plausibly be deemed to impinge upon their scholarship:

• Financial: Encompassing research patronage; occupational or consultative engagements with pertinent entities; equity investments; royalties or patent entitlements; honoraria or stipends.
• Non-financial: Including institutional or organizational allegiances; interpersonal or scholarly associations; vehement ideological stances germane to the research domain.

Funding Sources

All extramural funding supporting the research must be divulged, alongside delineation of the funder's putative role in study conception, data scrutiny, interpretive synthesis, manuscript elaboration, or publication determinations. Where the funder exerted no influence, this nonintervention shall be unequivocally stated.

How to Disclose

Authors are enjoined to tender a duly executed conflict-of-interest disclosure instrument concomitant with manuscript submission. Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith may utilize the ICMJE Uniform Disclosure Form or an bespoke variant thereof. A synoptic disclosure (or avowal of nil conflict) must further manifest in the manuscript, customarily antecedent to the bibliographic apparatus.

Consequences of Non-Disclosure

Omission to disclose germane interests may occasion publication deferral or manuscript repudiation. Post-publication detection may precipitate corrective emendation or article retraction.

For Peer Reviewers

What to Disclose

Reviewers must unmask any circumstance apt to vitiate their objectivity, inter alia:

• Recent or subsisting collaborations with submitting authors.
• Interpersonal bonds or vocational antagonisms.
• Pecuniary stakes in the research sequelae or cognate endeavors.
• Antecedent engagement with the manuscript or analogous proffers.
• Entrenched convictions liable to skew dispassionate appraisal.

How to Disclose

Reviewers shall tender disclosures of prospective conflicts upon invitation to review. Subsequent discoveries mandate instantaneous notification to the editor.

Action on Disclosure

Reviewers encumbered by material conflicts shall be solicited to relinquish the assignment. The editor shall appraise the disclosure and adjudicate the befitting recourse.

For Editors and Journal Staff (Including Editorial Board Members)

What to Disclose

Editors and personnel must disclose sundry relationships or interests susceptible to—or ostensibly susceptible to—modulating their editorial prerogatives:

• Fiscal nexuses to apposite commercial or institutional bodies.
• Interpersonal or vocational ties to authors or reviewers.
• Journal submissions by self or proximate confederates.
• Congruent research preoccupations with tendered manuscripts.

How to Disclose

Disclosures shall be remitted to the Editor-in-Chief or publisher. Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith may curate a publicly accessible ledger of editorial attestations, refreshed at regular intervals.

Management and Recusal

Editors or staff laboring under material conflicts must recuse themselves from all editorial engagements vis-à-vis the implicated manuscript. An uncompromised editor or board designee shall assume oversight. Manuscripts tendered by journal editors shall undergo autonomous peer review to safeguard equipoise.

Journal-Level Conflicts of Interest

Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith and its publisher avow fealty to editorial autonomy. The journal's architecture precludes commercial, institutional, or doctrinal encroachments upon editorial suasion. Institutional or journal-level conflicts shall be stewarded with plenary translucence.

Record Keeping

Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith safeguards confidential archives of all divulged conflicts of interest tendered by authors, reviewers, editors, and staff.

This policy is crafted to engender translucence, buttress ethical rectitude, and safeguard societal confidence in the scholarship disseminated by Mutawatir: Jurnal Keilmuan Tafsir Hadith. It shall undergo periodic review and refinement to synchronize with emergent paradigms in academic publishing.