Religio: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama is steadfastly devoted to upholding the most rigorous standards of publication ethics and scholarly integrity. The journal adheres scrupulously to the principles and exemplary practices endorsed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

All stakeholders in the publication process—encompassing authors, editors, peer reviewers, and the publisher—are obligated to conduct themselves with unwavering probity, transparency, and accountability, thereby safeguarding the foundational integrity of academic discourse within the domains of religious studies, interfaith scholarship, and comparative theology.

1. Duties of Editors

Editors bear the primary responsibility for evaluating all submitted manuscripts on the basis of their substantive intellectual merit, unencumbered by any form of prejudice or partiality.

Editorial determinations shall rest exclusively upon the manuscript's scholarly excellence, pertinence to the journal's thematic purview, and its substantive advancement of the discipline.

Editors are duty-bound to preserve the utmost confidentiality with respect to submitted materials and are precluded from appropriating any element thereof for their own investigative pursuits absent explicit written authorization from the corresponding author.

Editors must vigilantly avert conflicts of interest and candidly disclose any affiliations that might impinge upon their deliberative impartiality.

In instances where ethical irregularities emerge, editors shall proceed in conformity with COPE's procedural schemata and directives, thereby guaranteeing procedural equity and judiciousness.

2. Duties of Authors

Authors are enjoined to exemplify unyielding academic rectitude and ethical probity in the conception, composition, and tendering of manuscripts.

Submissions must embody authentic original scholarship, devoid of plagiarism, data contrivance, falsification, or superfluous reiteration of prior publications.

Authors are required to furnish meticulous attributions to all antecedent influences upon their scholarship.

Every individual enumerated as an author must have effected a material contribution to the inquiry and must endorse the definitive iteration of the manuscript.

Any latent conflicts of interest—whether pecuniary, institutional, or interpersonal—must be forthrightly divulged.

For inquiries entailing human subjects, empirical data accrual, or ethnographic methodologies, authors must attest to the procurement of requisite ethical approbation and informed participant assent.

3. Duties of Reviewers

Peer reviewers constitute a cornerstone in upholding the journal's standards of excellence, impartiality, and methodological exactitude.

Reviewers are charged with furnishing incisive, dispassionate, and punctual assessments of manuscripts.

An inviolable veil of confidentiality must enshroud all evaluative proceedings; reviewers are proscribed from exploiting unpublished disclosures within the manuscript for personal or proprietary advantage.

Reviewers shall promptly apprise the editor of any extant conflicts of interest or of discernible substantive overlaps between the manuscript under scrutiny and extant or pending publications.

Evaluative commentary ought to be calibrated to augment the manuscript's lucidity, methodological robustness, and intellectual import.

4. Publisher’s Responsibilities

The publisher, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Philosophy, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, is resolute in bolstering the editorial cadre's adherence to paramount ethical publishing norms.

The publisher safeguards unfettered editorial autonomy, insulated from extraneous commercial or ideological pressures.

Upon detection of ethical infractions, plagiaristic infractions, or data adulteration, the publisher shall collaborate with the editorial apparatus to institute remedial interventions, including the issuance of errata, retractions, or expressions of concern, in strict accord with COPE protocols.

The publisher champions scholarly autonomy, perspicuity, and inclusiveness across the journal's intellectual constituency.

5. Allegations of Misconduct

Upon the imputation of ethical malfeasance—encompassing plagiarism, manipulatory citation practices, data fabrication, or authorship disputes—the journal shall promptly inaugurate a formal inquiry, calibrated to COPE's prescriptive algorithmic frameworks.

Implicated authors shall be afforded a measured opportunity to rebut proffered allegations.

Substantiated infractions shall precipitate calibrated sanctions commensurate with the transgression's gravity, potentially encompassing manuscript repudiation, post hoc retraction, or referral to pertinent institutional authorities.

All probative proceedings shall be conducted under the aegis of confidentiality, evenhandedness, and deference to the dignity of all implicated parties.

6. Research Ethics and Data Integrity

Authors assume fiduciary accountability for the ethical stewardship of research participants. In investigations incorporating interviews, questionnaires, or human-derived data, authors must corroborate the elicitation of informed consent and the safeguarding of respondent anonymity.

Empirical data and ancillary materials must be rendered with unerring fidelity, and authors are exhorted to tender such resources upon judicious scholarly requisition to facilitate verificatory scrutiny.

7. Open Access and Copyright Policy

Religio: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama operates as a fully open-access venue, affording unfettered and instantaneous dissemination of its corpus to foment the transnational circulation of erudition.

Authors retain proprietary dominion over their creations while conferring upon the journal primacy of publication under the auspices of the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

This instrumentality countenances nonproprietary utilization, dissemination, and replication across media, contingent upon scrupulous attribution to the originating author 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.