Focus and Scope

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Publication Frequency

Journal of Islamic Education Policy is published twice a year (June and December).

Open Access Policy

All articles published by Journal of Islamic Education Policy are made immediately available worldwide under an open-access license. This means:

• everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles published in Journal of Islamic Education Policy, and
• everyone is free to re-use the published material if proper accreditation/citation of the original publication is given.

Publication Charge

This journal charges the following author fees. Authors are not required to pay an Article Submission and Publication Fee.

Article Submission and Publication: 0.00 (IDR). 

Manuscript Flow

JIEP's Manuscript Flow

1. Author Registration
   Authors register on the JIEP's OJS platform at https://journal.iain-manado.ac.id/index.php/jiep/user/register, which takes less than 15 minutes.

2. Author Login
   Authors log in to the JIEP's website at https://journal.iain-manado.ac.id/index.php/jiep/login, which takes less than 1 minute.

3. Article Submission
   Authors submit their articles to the JIEP website. This process takes less than 30 minutes, and the following files must be submitted:

   • The article file (in DOC or DOCX format)
   • Any supplementary files

4. Initial Evaluation by Editor
   The editor conducts an initial evaluation to assess the article's topic relevance, novelty, layout, and originality. Articles outside the journal's scope are rejected. This process takes 1-2 weeks.

5. Assignment of Peer-Reviewers
   The editor assigns at least two independent peer-reviewers based on the article’s topic.

6. Peer-Review Process

   • Peer-reviewers evaluate the article, a process that takes 1-2 weeks.
   • Review results are submitted to the editor.

7. Second Evaluation by Editor
   The editor evaluates the revised article based on reviewers' feedback and makes a decision:

   • Accepted without revision: The article moves directly to the proofreading process.
   • Minor revision: The author revises the manuscript within 2 weeks.
   • Major revision: The author revises the manuscript within 1 month.
   • Rejection: The review results are shared with the author.

8. Revisions by Author
   Authors revise the manuscript based on reviewer suggestions and submit the revised version within the given deadline.

   • If the revised article is not submitted on time, it will be treated as "resubmit for review" or require further review.
   • Failure to revise after a second chance may result in rejection.

9. Translation to English (if applicable)
   If the manuscript is in Indonesian, the author must translate it into English.

10. Similarity Check
    The manuscript is checked using a similarity detection tool, such as Turnitin.

    • If the similarity exceeds 20%, the author must re-paraphrase until the similarity is below 20%.
    • Proof of similarity results (PDF format) and paraphrased manuscript (DOCX format) must be uploaded to OJS.

11. Article Layout and Self-Proofreading
    After the revisions and similarity check, the editor asks the author to:

    • Adjust the article layout according to JIEP's template.
    • Self-proofread for grammar and typographical errors.
      This process takes 1-2 weeks, and only layout- or proofreading-related changes are allowed at this stage.

12. Proofreading Assignment
    The editor assigns a proofreader to review the readability of the article. This process takes up to 1 week.

13. Proofreading Results

    • The proofreader submits results to the editor.
    • The editor shares these results with the author for final corrections.

14. Final Evaluation by Editor
    The editor performs a final evaluation of the layout and proofreading results, which takes up to 1 week.

15. Publication
    The editor publishes the accepted and revised article on the JIEP's website. The publication can be in a specific volume and issue or the "Articles in Press" section, depending on the journal's policy.

This streamlined process ensures a high standard of quality for all articles published in JIEP.

Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Journal of Islamic Eduation Policy (JIEP) is a peer-reviewed journal. This statement clarifies ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer, and the publisher (Graduate Program, IAIN Manado. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and BERA Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research (4th ed.).

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed JIEP is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher, and the society. 

Graduate Program, IAIN Manado as the publisher of JIEP takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Graduate Program will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Publication decisions

The editor of the JIEP is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play

Editors at any time evaluates manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

Editros must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

1. Editors should have systems for managing their own conflicts of interest as well as those of their staff, authors, reviewers and editorial board members.
2. Journals should have a declared process for handling submissions from the editors, employees or members of the editorial board to ensure unbiased review.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself 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 should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgment 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 Conflict 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 reports 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 paper 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 are 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 (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should, in any event, be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should 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 and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment 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 should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on 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.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects

1. If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.
2. The confidential and anonymous treatment of human participants’ data is considered the norm for the conduct of research. Authors should recognise the entitlement of both institutions and individual participants to privacy, and should accord them their rights to confidentiality and anonymity. This could involve employing ‘fictionalising’ approaches when reporting, and where using such approaches researchers should fully explain how and why they have done so. However, in some circumstances individual participants, or their guardians or responsible others, may want to specifically and willingly waive their right to confidentiality and anonymity: researchers should recognise participants’ rights to be identified in any publication of their original works or other inputs if they so wish. This statement baseb on the ethical guidance of the privacy and data storage from BERA Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research (4th ed.).

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or another 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 his/her 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.

Srifani Simbuka

Editor in Chief of JIEP

Principal Contact

Name: Srifani Simbuka

Phone: +62 812 2768 8675

Email: srifani.simbuka@iain-manado.ac.id

Support Contact

Name: Rafiud Ilmudinulloh

Phone: +62 821 3105 1314

Email: rafiud.ilmudinulloh@iain.manado.ac.id

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