Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Duties of the Editorial Board

• Publication Decisions: Ambarsa: Jurnal Pendidikan Islam is responsible for determining which articles shall be published. The decision-making process is fundamentally guided by the validity and relevance of the work to scholars and readers. The Editorial Board is governed by the journal's policies and constrained by applicable legal requirements regarding plagiarism, copyright infringement, and defamation. Editors may consult with other editors or reviewers during the decision-making process.

• Complaints and Appeals: The journal maintains a well-defined system for handling complaints against the journal, its editorial staff, the editorial board, or the publisher. Complaints will be addressed by the authorized parties. Every aspect of the journal process is subject to potential grievances, including editorial procedures, unethical conduct by editors or reviewers, and peer-review manipulation.

• Fair Play: Editors evaluate manuscripts based solely on their intellectual and scholarly content, without regard to the authors' race, gender, religious beliefs, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.

• Confidentiality: The editorial staff must not disclose any information regarding a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

• Transparency and Conflicts of Interest: Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research projects without the express written consent of the author.

Duties of Reviewers

• Contribution to Editorial Decisions: Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and, through editorial communications with the author, may also assist the author in improving the quality of the manuscript.

• Promptness: Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt return will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse themselves from the review process.

• Confidentiality: Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

• Standards of Objectivity: Reviews must be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

• Acknowledgement of Sources: Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

   

• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

   

Duties of Authors

• Reporting Standards: Authors of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A manuscript should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

   

• Data Access and Retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if practicable, and to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

• Originality and Plagiarism: Authors must ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

   

• Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior.

   

• Acknowledgement of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

   

• Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author must ensure that all appropriate co-authors are included in the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

   

• Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

   

• Fundamental Errors in Published Works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

• Ethical Review: For research involving human or animal subjects, authors must explicitly identify any elements that carry inherent risks. Upon request, authors must provide evidence of legal and ethical clearance from a reputable institutional review board or organization. Authors must also clarify measures taken to protect sensitive information or data, particularly if the research involves commercial or marketing strategies.