Publication Ethics

Tsiqah: Jurnal Studi Hadis dan Tradisi Kenabian (e-ISSN: XXXX-XXXX, p-ISSN: XXXX-XXXX) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Bahtera Al Fikr Press, part of Institut Bahtera Studi Islam. This statement clarifies the ethical responsibilities of all parties involved in the publication process, including authors, editors, editorial board members, reviewers, and the publisher. This statement is based on the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), including ethical standards for journal editors, reviewers, authors, and scholarly publishers.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed journal is an essential part of the development of credible, transparent, and responsible academic knowledge. It reflects the quality of the work of authors, reviewers, editors, publishers, and the institutions that support scholarly research. Peer-reviewed articles support the principles of academic integrity, intellectual responsibility, methodological transparency, originality, and ethical communication.

Tsiqah: Jurnal Studi Hadis dan Tradisi Kenabian, as published by Bahtera Al Fikr Press, part of Institut Bahtera Studi Islam, is committed to maintaining high ethical standards at all stages of publication. These stages include manuscript submission, editorial screening, peer review, revision, editorial decision, copyediting, publication, correction, and post-publication evaluation.

The publisher ensures that commercial interests, institutional interests, sponsorship, financial support, or personal relationships do not influence editorial decisions. Editorial decisions are made independently based on academic merit, originality, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal’s Focus and Scope.

In managing its publication, the journal upholds three fundamental ethical principles:

Neutrality – ensuring freedom from conflicts of interest in editorial and review decisions.

Fairness – providing equal opportunity to authors based on academic merit, originality, methodological quality, and relevance to the journal’s scope.

Integrity – ensuring originality and preventing plagiarism, duplication, data fabrication, data falsification, citation manipulation, unethical authorship, fake peer review, and other forms of publication misconduct.

These principles apply to all parties involved in the publication process.

Publication Decisions

The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding which submitted articles should be published. Decisions are based on the article’s academic merit, originality, methodological soundness, relevance to the journal’s Focus and Scope, ethical compliance, and contribution to scholarly discourse in Hadith studies, Hadith sciences, Sunnah studies, Prophetic traditions, living Hadith, digital Hadith studies, religious authority, manuscript studies, Islamic intellectual history, and interdisciplinary studies of Prophetic traditions in Muslim societies.

Editorial decisions are also guided by legal and ethical considerations, including copyright, plagiarism, defamation, research integrity, authorship, conflict of interest, and publication ethics. The Editor-in-Chief may consult section editors, reviewers, editorial board members, or other qualified experts in making publication decisions.

Fair Play

Editors evaluate submitted articles solely based on their intellectual content, scholarly contribution, methodological quality, originality, and relevance to the journal’s scope. Editorial decisions must not be influenced by the authors’ race, gender, religion, nationality, ethnicity, institutional affiliation, political beliefs, academic seniority, or personal relationships.

All manuscripts are treated fairly and objectively throughout the editorial and peer review process.

Confidentiality

Editors, editorial staff, and editorial board members must not disclose any information about a submitted article to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

All submitted articles must be treated as confidential documents. Editors and reviewers must not use unpublished materials, arguments, data, translations, manuscript descriptions, digital corpora, field findings, or research results from submitted articles for personal or academic advantage without the express written consent of the authors.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest for Editors

Editors must avoid handling articles in which they have a conflict of interest. Conflicts of interest may include personal, institutional, academic, financial, political, religious, or collaborative relationships with the authors or their institutions.

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted article must not be used by editors or editorial board members for their own research without written permission from the authors. If an editor has a conflict of interest, the article should be assigned to another qualified editor.

Duties of Authors

Reporting Standards

Authors must present an accurate, objective, and academically responsible account of the research conducted. The article must contain sufficient detail to allow readers, reviewers, and editors to understand and evaluate the research process, data sources, analytical method, and scholarly contribution.

For textual, historical, philological, hermeneutical, empirical, ethnographic, bibliometric, systematic review, or digital humanities research, authors must clearly explain the sources, method, and analytical procedure used in the article. Any form of fabrication, falsification, manipulation, selective reporting, or misrepresentation of data, Hadith texts, sanad and matn analysis, translations, sources, field materials, digital data, or findings is considered unethical and unacceptable.

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors must ensure that their article is entirely original. If the work, words, ideas, arguments, translations, data, figures, tables, images, or findings of others are used, they must be properly cited and acknowledged.

Plagiarism in any form is unacceptable. This includes direct copying, improper paraphrasing, unattributed translation, self-plagiarism, duplicate publication, and the use of another scholar’s ideas or textual analysis without proper acknowledgment.

The journal may use plagiarism detection software to evaluate the originality of submitted articles. Articles with serious plagiarism, unethical textual overlap, or manipulated similarity will be rejected.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication

Authors must not submit the same article to more than one journal at the same time. Authors must also not publish the same research in multiple venues without proper justification, citation, and editorial approval.

Articles submitted to Tsiqah: Jurnal Studi Hadis dan Tradisi Kenabian must not have been previously published in any language or format. If the article is derived from a thesis, dissertation, conference paper, research report, preprint, or pre-existing academic work, this must be clearly disclosed, and the submitted article must be substantially revised and developed into an original journal article.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Authors must properly acknowledge all sources that have influenced their work. Relevant Hadith collections, classical Islamic sources, syarah works, rijal literature, manuscripts, Qur’anic verses, translations, academic books, journal articles, digital databases, field data, and other scholarly materials must be cited accurately.

Authors should avoid selective citation, misleading citation, excessive self-citation, citation manipulation, or the use of references that are not directly relevant to the article. All references must follow the journal’s required citation style.

Authorship of the Article

Authorship must be limited to individuals who have made significant scholarly contributions to the research. Such contributions may include conceptualization, research design, data collection, textual analysis, source verification, interpretation, drafting, critical revision, or final approval of the article.

All co-authors must approve the final version of the article and agree to its submission. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all listed authors have contributed appropriately and that no eligible contributor has been excluded.

The journal does not allow honorary authorship, guest authorship, gift authorship, ghost authorship, or any form of authorship manipulation.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest for Authors

Authors must disclose any financial, institutional, academic, personal, political, religious, or professional conflicts of interest that could influence the results, interpretation, or presentation of their research.

If there is no conflict of interest, authors should state:

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Authors must also disclose all sources of funding, sponsorship, grants, or institutional support related to the research, authorship, or publication of the article.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works

If authors discover significant errors, inaccuracies, or ethical problems in their published work, they must promptly notify the journal editor and cooperate with the editorial team in correcting or retracting the article.

Corrections, clarifications, expressions of concern, or retractions may be issued when necessary to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Reviewers assist editors in making editorial decisions and help authors improve the quality of their articles through objective, constructive, and evidence-based feedback. Reviews should evaluate the article’s originality, relevance, methodology, theoretical framework, use of sources, analysis, argumentation, and contribution to the field of Hadith studies and Prophetic traditions.

Promptness

Reviewers who feel unqualified to review an assigned article or unable to complete the review within the required time should notify the editor promptly and decline the review invitation.

Confidentiality

Reviewers must treat all articles received for review as confidential documents. They must not share, discuss, copy, cite, reproduce, or use any part of the article without authorization from the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly, respectfully, and with supporting arguments. Review comments should focus on improving the academic quality of the article.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors where appropriate. Reviewers should also inform the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the article under review and any other published or unpublished work known to them.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest for Reviewers

Reviewers must declare any conflict of interest before accepting a review invitation. If a reviewer has a personal, institutional, academic, financial, political, religious, or collaborative relationship with the authors or their institutions, the reviewer must decline the review.

Reviewers must not use unpublished materials from the article for their own research or personal advantage.

Duties of the Publisher

The publisher is responsible for supporting editorial independence, ethical publication practice, long-term accessibility of published articles, and the integrity of the journal’s publishing process. The publisher must not interfere with editorial decisions based on commercial, institutional, political, or personal interests.

The publisher works with the editorial team to prevent and address publication misconduct, including plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, fake peer review, citation manipulation, unethical authorship, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and other violations of publication ethics.

The publisher is also responsible for ensuring transparency regarding journal ownership, editorial policies, contact information, licensing, copyright, publication fees, archiving, and access to published content.

Ethical Misconduct

Any suspected ethical misconduct will be investigated by the editorial team. The journal may request clarification, documentation, source materials, raw data, manuscript evidence, digital data, or written statements from authors, reviewers, or editors involved.

If misconduct is confirmed, the journal may reject the article, retract the publication, issue a correction, publish an expression of concern, notify the authors’ institution, or take other appropriate actions according to the severity of the case.

Examples of ethical misconduct include plagiarism, self-plagiarism, duplicate submission, data fabrication, data falsification, citation manipulation, fake peer review, undisclosed conflicts of interest, false authorship, misuse of participant data, unethical use of artificial intelligence, and serious errors that affect the validity of the published work.

Use of Artificial Intelligence

Authors must disclose any use of artificial intelligence or AI-assisted tools in the preparation of the manuscript. AI tools may be used for language editing, grammar checking, translation assistance, formatting, or technical support, but they must not replace the author’s intellectual responsibility.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors because authorship requires accountability, ethical responsibility, and the ability to approve the final manuscript. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, validity, citation integrity, and scholarly quality of the submitted work.

The use of AI to fabricate data, generate false references, manipulate citations, produce misleading analysis, or conceal plagiarism is strictly prohibited.

Research Ethics and Data Integrity

Research involving human participants, interviews, fieldwork, communities, institutions, online users, private communication, or identifiable personal data must be conducted in accordance with ethical research principles. Authors must explain how consent, anonymity, confidentiality, privacy, and data protection were addressed.

For living Hadith studies, ethnographic research, netnography, digital Hadith studies, social media analysis, or online religious discourse research, authors must clearly explain whether the data were publicly accessible, how the data were collected, and how participants or users were protected.

Authors must ensure the integrity and transparency of all data and sources used in the manuscript. This includes Hadith collections, sanad and matn data, manuscript sources, archival materials, interview data, field notes, digital corpora, screenshots, tables, figures, and supplementary materials.

Corrections, Retractions, and Expressions of Concern

The journal is committed to correcting the scholarly record when errors or ethical problems are identified after publication. If a published article contains minor errors that do not affect the main findings, the journal may issue a correction.

If serious concerns arise regarding research integrity, plagiarism, data fabrication, authorship, conflict of interest, or ethical misconduct, the journal may issue an expression of concern while an investigation is conducted.

If an article is proven to contain serious ethical violations, unreliable findings, plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated data, or major misconduct, the journal may retract the article. Retraction notices will be published transparently and linked to the original article.

Authors are responsible for notifying the editorial office if they discover significant errors in their published work.

Final Statement

By submitting an article to Tsiqah: Jurnal Studi Hadis dan Tradisi Kenabian, authors confirm that they have read, understood, and agreed to comply with this Publication Ethics statement. The journal reserves the right to reject, withdraw, correct, or retract manuscripts and published articles that violate these ethical standards.

The journal is committed to promoting responsible scholarship, academic integrity, ethical research, and high-quality publication in the field of Hadith studies and Prophetic traditions.