Publication Ethics
Dalwa Islamic Economic Studies: Jurnal Ekonomi Syariah is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, transparency, and responsible scholarly publishing. This Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement is developed with reference to the Core Practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and internationally recognized principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing.
This statement applies to all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher. The journal is committed to preventing and addressing publication misconduct, including plagiarism, fabrication and falsification of data, duplicate or redundant publication, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, peer-review manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and unethical research practices.
In handling suspected publication misconduct, authorship disputes, complaints and appeals, conflicts of interest, corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions, the journal follows relevant COPE principles, guidelines, and flowcharts where applicable.
Duties of Editors
Publication Decisions
The Editor-in-Chief and editorial team are responsible for determining whether submitted manuscripts are suitable for publication. Editorial decisions are based on scholarly quality, originality, methodological soundness, relevance to the journal's focus and scope, contribution to knowledge, research integrity, ethical compliance, and recommendations from peer reviewers.
Editorial decisions must remain independent and must not be influenced by publication fees, commercial interests, institutional pressure, personal relationships, or other inappropriate considerations.
Fair and Impartial Evaluation
Editors evaluate manuscripts solely on their academic merit, originality, relevance, methodological quality, and scholarly contribution without discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, citizenship, institutional affiliation, geographic origin, political philosophy, or other personal characteristics.
Confidentiality
Editors and editorial staff must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts. Information concerning a manuscript may only be disclosed to the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial advisers, and the publisher where necessary.
Unpublished information contained in submitted manuscripts must not be used by editors for personal research or advantage without the author's explicit written permission.
Conflicts of Interest
Editors must disclose and appropriately manage any conflict of interest that could affect, or reasonably be perceived to affect, editorial independence. Editors should recuse themselves from handling manuscripts where significant personal, professional, financial, institutional, or collaborative conflicts exist.
Handling Allegations of Misconduct
Editors are responsible for taking appropriate action when credible concerns regarding research or publication misconduct are raised before or after publication.
Where necessary, authors may be asked to provide explanations, original data, ethics documentation, or other supporting evidence. Cases will be handled fairly, confidentially, and in accordance with relevant COPE guidance.
Duties of Reviewers
Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Reviewers assist editors in making editorial decisions and help authors improve the scholarly quality, clarity, accuracy, and methodological soundness of their manuscripts through constructive academic feedback.
Promptness
A reviewer who considers themselves unqualified to assess a manuscript or who cannot complete the review within the required period should promptly inform the editor.
Confidentiality
All manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Reviewers must not share, reproduce, distribute, discuss, or use unpublished information contained in manuscripts for personal, professional, or competitive advantage.
Objectivity
Reviews must be conducted objectively, professionally, and constructively. Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate. Reviewers should provide clear scholarly arguments supporting their comments and recommendations.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant scholarly works that have not been appropriately acknowledged and should notify the editor if they identify substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript and other published or submitted works.
Conflicts of Interest
Reviewers must decline to review manuscripts where personal, professional, financial, institutional, collaborative, or competitive relationships may create a conflict of interest.
Detailed information regarding manuscript assessment and the journal's review procedures is available on the Peer Review Process page.
Duties of Authors
Reporting Standards
Authors must provide an accurate and objective account of the research conducted. Research methods, data, findings, analysis, and conclusions must be presented truthfully and with sufficient information to enable scholarly evaluation.
Fraudulent, deliberately inaccurate, fabricated, falsified, or misleading statements constitute unethical publication behaviour and are unacceptable.
Originality and Plagiarism
Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts represent original scholarly work and that ideas, words, data, figures, theories, or other materials derived from other sources are appropriately acknowledged and cited.
Plagiarism, self-plagiarism, inappropriate paraphrasing, unattributed text recycling, and the use of another person's ideas or materials without proper acknowledgment are unacceptable publication practices.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to similarity and plagiarism screening in accordance with the journal's dedicated Plagiarism Screening Policy.
Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication
Authors must not submit substantially the same manuscript simultaneously to more than one journal. Duplicate or redundant publication without appropriate disclosure constitutes unethical publication behaviour.
Authors should disclose closely related manuscripts or publications that substantially overlap with the submitted work.
Authorship and Contributorship
Authorship should accurately reflect substantial scholarly contributions to the research and manuscript.
All listed authors should have made meaningful contributions to the conception, design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, or preparation of the study; participated in drafting or critically revising the manuscript; approved the final version; and accepted responsibility for the integrity of the work.
Guest authorship, gift authorship, honorary authorship, and ghost authorship are unacceptable.
Individuals who contributed to the research but do not meet the criteria for authorship should be appropriately acknowledged.
Authorship disputes will be handled in accordance with relevant COPE guidance and may be referred to the authors' institutions where appropriate.
Acknowledgement of Sources
Authors must appropriately acknowledge all sources that have materially influenced their research. References must be genuine, relevant, accurate, and used for legitimate scholarly purposes.
Data Integrity and Availability
Authors are responsible for the accuracy, integrity, and appropriate presentation of all data reported in their manuscripts. Research data must not be fabricated, falsified, selectively manipulated, or presented in a misleading manner.
Where necessary for editorial assessment or investigation of ethical concerns, authors may be requested to provide underlying research data or supporting documentation, subject to applicable ethical, legal, privacy, and confidentiality requirements.
Fundamental Errors in Published Works
If authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their published article, they must promptly notify the journal and cooperate with the editors in issuing an appropriate correction or retraction where necessary.
Research Ethics and Ethical Oversight
Research involving human participants must comply with applicable ethical standards. Authors are responsible for obtaining ethical approval and informed consent where required and for protecting participants' rights, dignity, safety, privacy, anonymity, and confidentiality.
Detailed requirements regarding ethical approval, exemptions, informed consent, vulnerable participants, and supporting documentation are provided in the journal's Ethical Clearance policy.
Conflicts of Interest
Authors, reviewers, and editors must disclose any financial, professional, institutional, personal, or other interests that could influence, or reasonably be perceived to influence, their scholarly judgment.
Authors must also disclose relevant sources of research funding and, where applicable, the role of funders in research design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, or publication decisions.
Data Fabrication and Falsification
Fabrication refers to creating data, participants, observations, or results that did not occur. Falsification refers to manipulating research materials, processes, images, data, or results in a manner that misrepresents the research.
Both fabrication and falsification constitute serious research misconduct and may result in manuscript rejection, correction, retraction, or referral to the relevant institution or authority.
Citation Ethics
Authors must ensure that all references are genuine, relevant, accurate, and appropriately used.
The following practices are prohibited:
- fabricating references or citing nonexistent sources;
- deliberately providing inaccurate bibliographic information;
- inserting irrelevant citations;
- excessive or inappropriate self-citation;
- citation coercion;
- citation cartels or reciprocal citation arrangements intended primarily to manipulate citation metrics; and
- other forms of citation manipulation.
Editors and reviewers must not require authors to add unnecessary citations to their own publications or to the journal.
Peer-Review Integrity
Dalwa Islamic Economic Studies is committed to maintaining a fair, independent, confidential, and objective peer-review process. Any attempt to manipulate reviewer identities, recommendations, reviewer accounts, or the editorial evaluation process constitutes serious publication misconduct.
The journal applies a double-blind peer-review process. Detailed procedures are described on the journal's Peer Review Process page.
Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence
The use of generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technologies by authors, reviewers, and editors must comply with the journal's dedicated Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy.
All parties remain responsible for maintaining transparency, confidentiality, accuracy, intellectual integrity, and human accountability when using AI-assisted technologies.
Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern
Dalwa Islamic Economic Studies is committed to preserving the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record. Post-publication concerns will be assessed fairly and, where appropriate, in accordance with relevant COPE guidance.
Corrections
A correction may be issued when an error affects part of a published article but does not invalidate its principal findings or overall scholarly integrity.
Retractions
A retraction may be issued when there is reliable evidence that published findings are substantially unreliable because of serious error or misconduct, plagiarism, redundant publication, unethical research, manipulated peer review, fabricated or falsified data, or other serious violations of publication ethics.
A retraction notice should clearly identify the affected article and explain the reason for the retraction.
Expressions of Concern
An Expression of Concern may be issued when serious concerns have been raised regarding a published article but sufficient evidence for a final editorial decision is not yet available.
Complaints and Appeals
Dalwa Islamic Economic Studies recognizes the right of authors, reviewers, readers, and other parties to raise legitimate complaints regarding editorial procedures, peer review, publication ethics, conflicts of interest, editorial conduct, or published content.
Authors may appeal an editorial decision where they believe that a significant factual, procedural, or ethical error has occurred. Appeals should provide clear scholarly or procedural justification.
Complaints and appeals will be handled objectively, confidentially, and in accordance with relevant COPE principles.
Allegations of Research and Publication Misconduct
Allegations of research or publication misconduct will be treated seriously, fairly, and confidentially.
The journal will seek appropriate evidence and provide relevant parties with an opportunity to respond. Where institutional investigation is necessary, the journal may contact the author's institution, research ethics committee, funding body, or another competent authority.
The journal will avoid unsupported accusations and will follow appropriate COPE guidance when managing allegations of misconduct.
Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Licensing
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts respect applicable intellectual property rights and that permission has been obtained where copyrighted or otherwise protected materials are reproduced.
Copyright ownership, author rights, reuse permissions, and licensing terms are governed by the journal's dedicated Copyright Notice and Licensing (Creative Commons) policies.
Duties of the Publisher
The publisher supports the editorial independence of Dalwa Islamic Economic Studies and does not interfere with scholarly decisions regarding the acceptance or rejection of individual manuscripts.
The publisher supports the editorial team in maintaining the integrity and preservation of the scholarly record and in responding appropriately to allegations of research or publication misconduct.
Editorial Independence
Editorial decisions are based solely on academic and scholarly considerations.
Article Processing Charges (APCs), sponsorship, advertising, institutional interests, commercial considerations, or other financial factors must not influence editorial decisions.
Payment of any publication-related fee does not guarantee acceptance of a manuscript.
Post-Publication Discussion
Dalwa Islamic Economic Studies welcomes responsible scholarly discussion concerning published articles.
Readers who identify significant errors, ethical concerns, or potential threats to research integrity may contact the editorial office. Legitimate concerns will be assessed and, where necessary, investigated in accordance with the journal's publication ethics procedures and relevant COPE guidance.
