Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

At-Tajdid: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam
Universitas Muhammadiyah Metro, Indonesia

At-Tajdid: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam is committed to maintaining high standards of publication ethics, academic integrity, and scholarly quality in the fields of Islamic education and Islamic educational thought.

This publication ethics statement is developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles of scholarly publishing ethics, including the guidelines and core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The journal provides a scholarly platform for original research, theoretical studies, and critical academic discussions concerning Islamic educational thought, multicultural education, learning media and technology, Islamic education curriculum development, and Islamic educational management.

The journal welcomes qualitative, quantitative, developmental, and literature-based research that contributes to the advancement of Islamic education in formal, non-formal, and informal educational contexts.

All parties involved in the publication process, including editors, reviewers, authors, and the publisher, are expected to uphold the principles of honesty, objectivity, fairness, transparency, academic responsibility, and respect for intellectual property.

1. Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

Publication Decisions

The editors are responsible for deciding which submitted manuscripts are suitable for publication in At-Tajdid: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam.

Editorial decisions must be based on the manuscript's originality, scholarly quality, methodological rigor, relevance to the journal's focus and scope, and contribution to the development of Islamic education and Islamic educational thought.

Priority is given to manuscripts that provide meaningful theoretical contributions, empirical findings, educational innovations, or critical perspectives on contemporary issues in Islamic education.

Editors may consult reviewers and editorial board members when making publication decisions.

Fair Play

Editors must evaluate manuscripts solely on their academic merit, without discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, religious background, political affiliation, institutional affiliation, or other personal characteristics.

Differences in Islamic educational perspectives, scholarly interpretations, or theoretical approaches must be evaluated objectively using appropriate academic standards.

Confidentiality

Editors and editorial staff must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts.

Information regarding manuscripts may only be disclosed to the corresponding author, assigned reviewers, potential reviewers, editorial advisers, the publisher, or other authorized parties involved in the editorial process.

Confidentiality of Unpublished Materials

Unpublished manuscripts, research findings, educational data, theoretical arguments, and original ideas must not be used by editors for personal research or academic purposes without the author's explicit written permission.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Editors must disclose and appropriately manage any financial, personal, institutional, or academic conflicts of interest that may influence editorial decisions.

Editors who have a conflict of interest involving a submitted manuscript must withdraw from the editorial decision-making process for that manuscript.

Handling of Misconduct

Editors are responsible for investigating suspected violations of publication ethics, including plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, authorship manipulation, and undisclosed conflicts of interest.

Editors must ensure that allegations of misconduct are handled fairly, confidentially, and transparently.

Where necessary, editorial actions may include requesting clarification, rejecting a manuscript, publishing corrections, issuing expressions of concern, or retracting published articles.

2. Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review supports editorial decision-making and helps authors improve the scientific quality, methodological accuracy, and academic contribution of their manuscripts.

Reviewers are expected to evaluate the relevance of submitted manuscripts to the fields of Islamic education and Islamic educational thought.

Evaluations should consider the manuscript's theoretical framework, research methodology, data interpretation, originality, and contribution to Islamic educational knowledge and practice.

Qualification and Promptness

Reviewers should accept review assignments only when they possess the necessary academic expertise and sufficient time to conduct a careful and objective evaluation.

Reviewers who are unable to complete a review within the specified period should inform the editor promptly.

Confidentiality

Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential academic documents.

Reviewers must not distribute, reproduce, discuss, or disclose manuscript contents to unauthorized individuals.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews must be conducted objectively, professionally, and constructively.

Reviewers should provide clear recommendations supported by academic reasoning, relevant scholarly literature, and appropriate methodological considerations.

Personal criticism, discriminatory comments, and judgments based solely on differences in religious interpretation or institutional affiliation are unacceptable.

Reviewers should respect legitimate diversity in Islamic educational thought while maintaining rigorous academic standards.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant scholarly publications, educational theories, or previous research that have not been adequately acknowledged by the authors.

Reviewers should also inform editors of any substantial similarity between the submitted manuscript and previously published works.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Reviewers must disclose any personal, professional, institutional, financial, or academic relationships that may compromise their impartiality.

Reviewers should decline manuscripts when significant conflicts of interest exist.

Use of Information

Information, research data, unpublished educational findings, and scholarly ideas obtained during the review process must not be used for personal, academic, or professional advantage without authorization.

3. Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

Reporting Standards

Authors must present research findings accurately, objectively, and systematically.

Research submitted to At-Tajdid: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam should clearly explain its research objectives, theoretical foundations, methodology, findings, discussions, and contributions to Islamic education.

Manuscripts involving Islamic educational thought, multicultural education, learning media and technology, curriculum development, or Islamic educational management must provide sufficient academic justification and supporting evidence.

Authors conducting empirical research should present data and analytical procedures transparently to support the credibility and validity of their findings.

Fabrication, falsification, selective manipulation of data, and intentional misrepresentation of findings are strictly prohibited.

Originality and Plagiarism

Authors must ensure that submitted manuscripts represent original scholarly work and have not been published previously in substantially the same form.

All borrowed ideas, theories, statements, quotations, research findings, and educational materials must be properly acknowledged.

In studies involving the Qur'an, Hadith, Islamic educational philosophy, or the works of Muslim scholars, authors must provide accurate references and avoid misrepresenting the meaning, historical context, or scholarly interpretation of religious sources.

Plagiarism, inappropriate paraphrasing, unauthorized reproduction, and misrepresentation of intellectual contributions are unacceptable.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication

Authors must not submit the same manuscript simultaneously to multiple journals.

The publication of substantially similar findings in more than one journal without appropriate justification and disclosure is prohibited.

Authors must inform the editor if the manuscript is closely related to previously published research, conference papers, or other scholarly publications.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Authors are responsible for citing relevant and credible academic references.

Manuscripts should appropriately acknowledge previous research in Islamic education, educational thought, educational technology, curriculum development, multicultural education, and educational management.

References to the Qur'an, Hadith, classical Islamic literature, and contemporary Islamic scholarship must be presented accurately and consistently.

Authors must not fabricate references, misattribute scholarly arguments, or deliberately omit sources that are essential to the interpretation of their findings.

Authorship and Contributorship

Authorship must be limited to individuals who have made substantial intellectual contributions to the research.

These contributions may include research conceptualization, methodology development, data collection, analysis, interpretation, manuscript preparation, or substantial academic revision.

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that:

1. All individuals who meet the criteria for authorship are included.

2. Individuals who do not qualify for authorship are not listed.

3. All authors have reviewed and approved the final manuscript.

4. All authors have agreed to the manuscript's submission and publication.

Any changes to authorship after submission must receive approval from the editorial team and the authors concerned.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Authors must disclose financial, professional, institutional, or personal relationships that could influence their research.

Funding sources and institutional support must be acknowledged where applicable.

Authors must also disclose circumstances that may affect the independence and objectivity of their research findings.

Research Ethics

Research involving students, teachers, lecturers, educational administrators, or other human participants must comply with applicable ethical principles and institutional regulations.

Researchers must respect participants' dignity, privacy, confidentiality, and right to informed consent.

In studies involving children or other vulnerable participants, researchers must obtain appropriate authorization and consent in accordance with applicable ethical and legal requirements.

Research conducted in schools, madrasahs, pesantren, Islamic universities, or other educational institutions must respect institutional procedures and avoid causing harm or unnecessary disruption to participants.

Where required, authors must provide information regarding ethical approval issued by an authorized ethics committee or institution.

Research involving Islamic educational practices should also respect the religious, cultural, and social contexts of the participating communities.

Data Availability and Research Materials

Authors should retain relevant research data, educational instruments, interview transcripts, observation records, and other supporting materials necessary to verify their findings.

Research materials should be made available when reasonably requested by editors, provided that disclosure does not violate confidentiality, privacy, ethical approval conditions, or applicable regulations.

Personal information concerning students, teachers, and research participants must remain protected.

Fundamental Errors in Published Works

Authors who discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their published articles must promptly notify the editor.

Authors are expected to cooperate with the editorial team in correcting, clarifying, or retracting the publication when necessary.

Concealing significant errors that affect the reliability or interpretation of research findings is unacceptable.

4. Plagiarism and Similarity Checking

At-Tajdid: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam is committed to preventing plagiarism and maintaining originality in scholarly publications.

Submitted manuscripts may undergo similarity checking using appropriate plagiarism-detection tools.

Similarity reports are evaluated carefully by the editorial team, taking into account properly cited quotations, references, commonly used academic terminology, and other legitimate textual similarities.

A similarity score alone does not determine whether plagiarism has occurred.

Manuscripts containing inappropriate textual borrowing, unattributed quotations, duplicated content, or other forms of plagiarism may be returned for revision or rejected.

The editorial team reserves the right to investigate suspected plagiarism before or after publication.

5. Corrections, Retractions, and Editorial Notices

At-Tajdid: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam is committed to maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record.

When significant errors or ethical concerns are identified in published articles, the editorial team will assess the matter and determine appropriate corrective action.

Depending on the nature and severity of the issue, the journal may issue:

1. Correction: To address errors that do not invalidate the main findings or conclusions.

2. Clarification: To provide additional information necessary for accurate interpretation.

3. Expression of Concern: To inform readers about serious unresolved questions regarding the reliability or integrity of a publication.

4. Retraction: To withdraw an article from the scholarly record when its findings are unreliable or serious publication misconduct has occurred.

Corrections and retractions will be handled transparently, with appropriate explanations provided to readers.

6. Complaints and Appeals

Authors have the right to submit complaints or appeals regarding editorial decisions, peer-review procedures, or possible violations of publication ethics.

Complaints and appeals must be submitted to the editorial team with relevant explanations and supporting evidence.

The editorial team will review complaints objectively, fairly, and confidentially.

Appeals against editorial decisions may be considered when there is evidence of procedural irregularities, factual misunderstandings, conflicts of interest, or other significant concerns.

Submitting an appeal does not guarantee that the original editorial decision will be changed.

7. Allegations of Research and Publication Misconduct

At-Tajdid: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam takes allegations of research and publication misconduct seriously.

Potential violations include:

1. Plagiarism and improper attribution of scholarly sources.

2. Fabrication or falsification of research data.

3. Manipulation or selective misrepresentation of research findings.

4. Duplicate, redundant, or simultaneous publication.

5. Inappropriate authorship attribution or authorship manipulation.

6. Undisclosed financial, institutional, or academic conflicts of interest.

7. Unethical research involving students, teachers, or other research participants.

8. Unauthorized disclosure of confidential educational or personal information.

9. Citation manipulation and fabrication of academic references.

10. Deliberate misrepresentation of Islamic scholarly sources or religious texts.

11. Other practices that compromise academic honesty, research credibility, or publication integrity.

When allegations arise, the editorial team will conduct an initial assessment and may request clarification or evidence from the authors, reviewers, affiliated institutions, or other relevant parties.

The journal will evaluate the available evidence and take proportionate action in accordance with established publication ethics principles.

Actions may include manuscript rejection, requests for correction, publication of editorial notices, article retraction, or communication with the relevant institution when appropriate.

8. Commitment to Publication Integrity

At-Tajdid: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam, published by Universitas Muhammadiyah Metro, Indonesia, is committed to promoting scholarly excellence, academic integrity, and responsible research practices in Islamic education and Islamic educational thought.

The journal recognizes the importance of ethical scholarship in advancing Islamic educational knowledge, strengthening educational institutions, developing innovative pedagogical practices, and addressing contemporary educational challenges.

All authors, editors, reviewers, and editorial staff are expected to uphold the principles of honesty, fairness, accountability, transparency, confidentiality, and respect for intellectual property.

Through responsible editorial practices and rigorous scholarly evaluation, At-Tajdid: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam seeks to contribute to the development of credible, innovative, inclusive, and academically sound Islamic educational scholarship.