Publication Ethics

JOURNAL HADIS strictly adheres to the core practices and guidelines established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). By submitting a manuscript to this journal, authors implicitly certify and guarantee that:

1. Originality and Prior Publication: The work described has not been published previously in any peer-reviewed venue, except as an academic abstract, a published lecture, or part of an official academic thesis.

2. Exclusivity: The manuscript is not currently under consideration, review, or scheduled for publication elsewhere.

3. Institutional and Co-Author Consent: The submission and potential publication of the manuscript have been explicitly vetted and approved by all listed co-authors and relevant institutional authorities.

4. Academic Integrity: The work is entirely the authors’ own. The manuscript contains absolutely no data falsification, fabrication, or plagiarism, including text-recycling or duplicate publication of the authors’ own previous work without rigorous, proper citation.

Handling Ethical Misconduct
Any allegations or suspected cases of ethical misconduct (including plagiarism, citation manipulation, or data fabrication) will be investigated thoroughly and treated with the utmost seriousness in strict accordance with the guidelines issued by COPE. For further details regarding these international standards, please consult the official COPE resources:

- COPE Core Practices and Code of Conduct for Journal Editors

- COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers

Author Responsibilities

Reporting and Data Accuracy

1. Accurate and Impartial Reporting: Authors are obligated to present a precise, objective, and impartial account of the research conducted, followed by an objective discussion of its significance.

2. Data Integrity: The underlying data and source materials underpinning the research must be accurately represented within the manuscript. Fabricated, fraudulent, or deliberately false statements are strictly prohibited and constitute a severe violation of the journal's ethical standards.

3. Replicability and Transparency: The manuscript must contain comprehensive methodological details, source references, and contextual data sufficient to permit other scholars to replicate the study or verify the findings.

4. Zero-Tolerance Policy: Any form of academic dishonesty or scientific misconduct is strictly tolerated under no circumstances, as it undermines scholarly trust and the foundational integrity of the academic community.

Data Access and Retention

1. Editorial Examination: Authors must be prepared to furnish the original datasets associated with their manuscript upon request for editorial review and evaluation during the peer-review process.

2. Public Data Sharing: Where practical and legally permissible, authors are highly encouraged to share their research data publicly, in alignment with the Sherpa Romeo statement and the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases.

3. Data Retention: Authors must retain all underlying raw data, source materials, and manuscripts for a reasonable duration (typically a minimum of three to five years) post-publication. This practice is mandatory to facilitate potential verification processes or secondary analysis by other researchers.

4. Transparency and Trust: Maintaining accessible raw data is critical for upholding open science principles, ensuring academic transparency, and fostering long-term trust within the international scholarly community.

Plagiarism and Originality Policy

1. Wholly Original Works: JOURNAL HADIS requires that all submitted manuscripts be wholly original works. Submitting knowingly false, fraudulent, or plagiarized information is completely unacceptable and constitutes a severe breach of academic integrity.

2. Forms of Plagiarism: Plagiarism manifests in several unacceptable forms, including but not limited to:

- Claiming another researcher's work or ideas as one’s own.

- Copying or closely paraphrasing substantial portions of someone else’s work without proper attribution.

- Falsely attributing research results or textual findings.

3. Mandatory Attribution: Accurate in-text citation and formal quotation are mandatory whenever incorporating the thoughts, works, or exact words of others. All borrowed materials from classical or contemporary sources must be diligently cited.

4. Exclusivity of Submission: Authors must ensure that their submissions have not been previously published, nor are they currently under consideration by any other publication venue.

5. Plagiarism Screening: To uphold rigorous scholarly standards, JOURNAL HADIS editors routinely employ specialized plagiarism detection software (such as Turnitin) to verify the originality of all submitted manuscripts against existing literature.

 Policy Note
For a comprehensive breakdown of enforcement mechanisms, penalties, and threshold limits, authors must consult the official JOURNAL HADIS Plagiarism Policy document.

Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Submission

1. Redundant Publication: Authors are strongly discouraged from publishing manuscripts that essentially cover the same research or report the same findings in more than one journal or primary publication outlet. Re-publishing the same data without justification constitutes redundant publication and is unequivocally unacceptable.

2. Concurrent Submissions: The concurrent submission of identical or substantially similar manuscripts to multiple journals simultaneously violates global ethical standards and is strictly impermissible.

3. Scholarly Integrity: Duplicate and concurrent submissions compromise the integrity of the academic record, cause unnecessary duplication in scientific communication, and risk misleading the scholarly community.

4. Novelty and Focus: Authors must ensure that each manuscript submitted to JOURNAL HADIS offers a distinct, novel contribution to the field of Hadith sciences and is submitted to only one publication venue at a time.

Acknowledgement of Sources

1. Recognition of Contributions: JOURNAL HADIS emphasizes the absolute importance of appropriately recognizing and honoring the contributions of other scholars.

2. Mandatory Citations: Authors are required to accurately and fully cite any publications, classical commentaries, or contemporary research that have significantly influenced or shaped the nature of their submitted work.

3. Scholarly Integrity: Proper citation reflects respect for intellectual property and supports the integrity of academic discourse by enabling readers, reviewers, and editors to trace the historical and theoretical development of ideas and research findings.

Criteria for Authorship

1. Qualifications for Authorship: Authorship must be strictly confined to individuals who have made a substantial intellectual contribution to the conception, design, implementation, data collection, or interpretation of the presented research. All individuals who meet these criteria must be credited as co-authors.

2. Recognition of Contributors: Individuals who have contributed significantly to specific logistical, technical, or linguistic aspects of the research—but do not meet the full criteria for authorship—must not be listed as authors. Instead, they should be formally recognized within the Acknowledgments section.

3. Integrity in Author Listings: The designated corresponding author must ensure that all legitimate co-authors are included in the manuscript and that no inappropriate authorships (such as "gift," "guest," or "ghost" authorship) are granted.

4. Final Approval and Consent: The corresponding author is responsible for verifying that all listed co-authors have thoroughly reviewed the manuscript, endorsed its final version, and explicitly consented to its submission and publication in JOURNAL HADIS.

 Conflicts of Interest and Financial Support

1. Mandatory Disclosure: Authors must clearly and transparently disclose any potential conflicts of interest that could influence, or appear to influence, the objectivity, findings, or interpretation of their research.

2. Scope of Relationships: This disclosure requirement encompasses all financial, personal, professional, or institutional relationships that could introduce bias into the study or affect its scholarly reception.

3. Financial Support and Funding: Authors must explicitly disclose all sources of financial support, grants, or sponsorships received for the research within the manuscript.

4. Transparency and Integrity: Ensuring complete transparency in these declarations is critical to preserving the integrity of JOURNAL HADIS, maintaining the trust of the scholarly community, and fostering unbiased, rigorous academic inquiry.

Correction of Significant Errors

1. Prompt Notification: Should an author discover a significant error, calculation mistake, or material inaccuracy within their published work, it is their absolute responsibility to promptly notify the JOURNAL HADIS Editorial Office.

2. Mandatory Collaboration: The author must cooperate fully with the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor to either retract the paper, issue a formal erratum, or publish a corrigendum to amend the publication.

3. Upholding the Scholarly Record: This correction process is vital for upholding the absolute integrity of the academic record and ensuring that the research community is provided with reliable, verified information.

Hazards and Human/Animal Protections

1. Explicit Hazard Disclosure: If the research involves chemicals, procedures, experimental materials, or devices that pose inherent safety or health risks, it is incumbent upon the authors to clearly and prominently delineate these hazards within the manuscript.

2. Safety in Replication: Providing explicit safety documentation is critical for ensuring the safety of researchers replicating the studies, maintaining ethical lab and field practices, and upholding the overall transparency and integrity of published scholarly work.

3. Ethics Approvals and Compliance: For empirical studies where Hadith treatments or prophetic medicine concepts are tested on human participants or animal models, authors must explicitly state that all procedures received prior approval from a recognized institutional ethics committee or review board.

Ethical Standards for Human Participants

1. Compliance with Ethical Declarations: Any research involving human participants must strictly adhere to internationally recognized ethical standards, such as the Declaration of Helsinki or the Belmont Report.

2. Institutional Approval: Prior to conducting the study, researchers must secure formal approval from a recognized institutional review board (IRB), ethics committee, or an equivalent regulatory body. The manuscript must explicitly state the name of the approving committee.

3. Informed Consent: Authors must explicitly state within the manuscript that written, informed consent was obtained from all participants. If consent was waived, a detailed, legally and ethically sound justification approved by the ethics committee must be provided.

4. Risk Mitigation and Dignity: Authors are fully responsible for safeguarding the privacy, confidentiality, and dignity of participants throughout the research process. Potential risks to participants must be meticulously minimized, and the societal or scientific benefits derived from the research must clearly outweigh those risks.

5. Privacy and Data Protection: Researchers must ensure that the privacy rights of participants are rigorously protected at all times (e.g., through data anonymization), reinforcing the ethical foundation and trustworthiness of the study.

Ethical Standards for Animal Subjects

1. Compliance with Legal and Ethical Guidelines: Any research or empirical testing involving live animal subjects must strictly adhere to rigorous national and international legal frameworks. This includes compliance with the Animal Welfare Act 2015 (or corresponding domestic legislation) and the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

2. Institutional Animal Care Approval: Authors must obtain formal institutional clearance from a recognized Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) or an equivalent ethical review board prior to commencing the study. The manuscript must explicitly verify this approval.

3. Humane Treatment and Welfare: Authors bear full ethical responsibility for ensuring the humane treatment of all animal subjects. Researchers must implement the 3Rs principle (Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement) to actively minimize pain, stress, and suffering throughout every stage of the study.

4. Husbandry and Environmental Conditions: Environmental conditions in which laboratory or experimental animals are housed must be safe, clean, and species-appropriate, providing consistent, unrestricted access to necessary nutrition and water.

5. Ethical Integrity: Upholding strict animal welfare metrics is an absolute prerequisite for ensuring the scientific validity, reproducibility, and ethical integrity of any empirical research published in JOURNAL HADIS.

Editor Responsibilities

Fairness and Objectivity

1. Evaluation of Intellectual Merit: Editors must evaluate every manuscript submitted to JOURNAL HADIS solely based on its scholarly content, intellectual depth, and methodological rigor. Decision-making must be guided strictly by academic excellence and relevance to the field of Hadith sciences.

2. Non-Discriminatory Review Process: Manuscript assessments must be conducted with absolute impartiality. Editors are strictly required to evaluate work without bias regarding the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, schools of thought (madhab), ethnicity, nationality, or political views.

3. Equitable and Unbiased Judgment: Upholding these standards ensures that all submissions are judged equitably and that decisions to accept, revise, or reject a manuscript are made purely on academic grounds, maintaining the utmost integrity of the peer-review process.

Confidentiality

1. Strict Confidentiality Requirement: The Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor, and all members of the Editorial Board must maintain absolute confidentiality regarding all submitted manuscripts.

2. Nondisclosure Restrictions: Editors are strictly prohibited from revealing any details, contents, data, or structural findings of a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the designated corresponding author, assigned peer reviewers, potential reviewers, trusted editorial advisors, and the publisher, as appropriate.

3. Protection of Intellectual Property: Maintaining rigid confidentiality is critical to safeguarding the authors' intellectual property rights and preventing premature disclosure or unauthorized use of research before official publication.

4. Integrity of the Review Process: Keeping all manuscript materials secure ensures a completely objective, unbiased double-blind peer-review environment, shielded from outside influence or conflict.

Use of Unpublished Materials

1. Consent Requirement: Editors and Editorial Board members are strictly prohibited from using any unpublished content, data, ideas, or arguments from a submitted manuscript for their own research purposes unless they have obtained the explicit, formal written consent of the authors.

2. Protection of Proprietary Rights: This mandate ensures that the proprietary and intellectual property rights of the author are rigorously respected and legally protected prior to official publication.

3. Ethical Safeguards: Restricting the use of un-peer-reviewed, submitted material prevents any unauthorized exploitation of ideas, eliminates institutional conflicts of interest, and maintains strict ethical standards of scholarly conduct.

4. Preservation of Academic Trust: Adhering to these nondisclosure boundaries is fundamental to safeguarding the integrity of JOURNAL HADIS and fostering an environment of absolute trust within the global academic community.

Publication Decisions

1. Rigorous Review Process: The Editorial Board bears final responsibility for deciding which submitted manuscripts are suitable for publication. All decisions are determined through a comprehensive, double-blind peer-review process grounded strictly in the significance of the research, its original contribution to Hadith scholarship, and its methodological validation.

2. Legal and Ethical Compliance: In making these publishing determinations, the Editorial Board is firmly committed to upholding the journal's established policies. Editors must fulfill all legal responsibilities regarding the prevention of libel, plagiarism, copyright infringement, and data fabrication.

3. Scholarly Collaboration: Editors may collaborate and consult with other members of the Editorial Board, regional advisors, or expert peer reviewers to enhance the decision-making process, ensuring that all evaluations are thoroughly vetted, fair, and unbiased.

4. Quality Assurance: This rigorous selection framework guarantees that all content published in JOURNAL HADIS not only advances international Islamic scholarship but also fully complies with global ethical and legal publishing standards.

Peer Review and Reviewer Management

1. Originality Verification: The editor is tasked with strictly verifying the originality of each manuscript received upon submission, utilizing specialized screening tools (such as Turnitin) to prevent academic misconduct before the manuscript enters the review cycle.

2. Transparent Review Standards: The editor must establish and consistently apply a fair, rigorous peer-review framework. This process—specifically a double-blind peer-review system—must be transparently communicated to authors, clearly specifying which sections of the journal undergo external review.

3. Selection of Peer Reviewers: The editor is responsible for identifying and appointing independent peer reviewers who possess verified academic expertise and relevant publication records in Hadith sciences and Islamic scholarship to evaluate the manuscript effectively.

4. Managing Conflicts of Interest: The editor must diligently avoid appointing reviewers who have known or potential conflicts of interest—including financial, institutional, personal, or collaborative relationships with the authors. This precaution ensures that the evaluation process remains completely objective, thorough, and unbiased.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

The Role of Peer Review

The peer-review process serves as a critical mechanism for upholding the academic excellence of JOURNAL HADIS, simultaneously aiding the Editorial Board in making objective publication decisions and providing authors with expert, constructive feedback to enhance the quality and methodological rigor of their research.

Promptness and Expertise Conflict

Should an assigned peer reviewer determine that they lack the necessary technical expertise to adequately evaluate a manuscript's research—particularly concerning specialized methodologies in Hadith sciences—or if they find themselves unable to complete the evaluation within the designated deadline, it is incumbent upon them to promptly notify the editor and formally excuse themselves from the review process. Adhering to this protocol is critical for maintaining the operational efficiency, academic rigor, and absolute integrity of the JOURNAL HADIS peer-review system.

Objectivity and Argumentation

The peer-review process must be executed with absolute objectivity, ensuring that evaluations focus strictly on the academic merit of the manuscript and remain entirely devoid of personal criticism toward the authors. Reviewers are required to clearly substantiate their assessments, expressions of doubt, or recommendations for revision with cogent, constructive, and well-reasoned arguments. This rigorous approach guarantees that feedback serves as a valuable tool for scholarly improvement while upholding the highest standards of intellectual integrity within JOURNAL HADIS.

Confidentiality of Manuscripts

All manuscripts submitted for peer review are strictly confidential documents and must be treated as privileged communication. Reviewers must not share, leak, or discuss the contents, data, or theoretical frameworks of these materials with any unauthorized individuals unless explicit, written permission has been granted by the editor. Upholding this rigid standard of confidentiality is critical for preserving the ethical integrity of the double-blind review process and respecting the proprietary rights of the authors before official publication.

Conflicts of Interest and Use of Information

Peer reviewers must keep all manuscript information strictly confidential, refraining from exploiting unpublished concepts for personal gain, and must immediately recuse themselves from the evaluation process if any competitive, collaborative, institutional, or personal conflicts of interest arise with the authors or related entities to ensure an absolute standard of ethical impartiality within JOURNAL HADIS.

Acknowledgement of Sources and Plagiarism Detection

Peer reviewers are responsible for identifying relevant published literature or classical texts that the author has failed to cite, ensuring that all previously documented observations or arguments are accompanied by verified citations. Furthermore, reviewers are ethically obligated to immediately notify the Editor-in-Chief if they detect any significant similarities, structural overlaps, or potential plagiarism between the manuscript under review and other published works, thereby preserving the transparency, academic integrity, and scholarly value of JOURNAL HADIS.

Responsibilities of Publisher

Publisher Responsibilities: Handling Research Misconduct and Publication Integrity

1. Commitment to Credibility: The publisher of JOURNAL HADIS is fully committed to ensuring the absolute integrity, reliability, and academic credibility of all published works within the scholarly record.

2. Misconduct Investigation Protocol: In cases of alleged or confirmed research misconduct—including but not limited to plagiarism, data fabrication, image manipulation, and fraudulent publication—the publisher will collaborate closely with the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial team to execute a thorough, objective investigation.

3. Corrective Mechanisms: Based on the findings of an investigation, the publisher will take immediate and appropriate action. This includes the formal publication of corrections, clarifications, errata, or complete article retractions when severe ethical violations or fatal errors are verified.

4. Proactive Vetting Measures: The publisher implements and maintains proactive administrative measures, utilizing advanced similarity-detection software (e.g., Turnitin) and robust peer-review monitoring to detect and prevent unethical practices before and after publication.

5. Adherence to International Standards: All instances of suspected misconduct are handled strictly in accordance with established international ethical guidelines, specifically the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) standards, to ensure absolute fairness, transparency, and legal accountability.

6. Zero-Tolerance Policy: The publisher remains dedicated to safeguarding the trust of the global scholarly community, operating under a zero-tolerance policy where unethical research behavior is neither overlooked nor permitted to compromise JOURNAL HADIS.

Publisher Responsibilities: Accessibility and Long-Term Archiving

1. Commitment to Permanent Access: The publisher of JOURNAL HADIS is fully committed to ensuring the permanent, unrestricted accessibility and digital preservation of all published scholarly works, guaranteeing that academic knowledge remains open to the global research community.

2. Institutional Collaboration: In line with international archiving standards, the publisher collaborates with major digital repositories, national libraries, and global indexing organizations to support the widespread dissemination, visibility, and long-term sustainability of all published content.

3. Robust Digital Archiving Systems: To safeguard against data loss, a dedicated, multi-tiered digital archiving strategy is maintained. All articles are securely stored, back-up managed, and preserved through secure repository systems to ensure they remain permanently discoverable and retrievable for future generations.

4. Continuous Knowledge Dissemination: Through these proactive preservation frameworks, the publisher guarantees that the dissemination of research in Hadith sciences is reliable, continuous, and shielded from unexpected technical or institutional disruptions, thereby directly supporting the advancement of global academic excellence.

Corrective Actions for Post-Publication

Erratum

An Erratum is a formal, citable notice issued by the journal to correct significant errors introduced directly during the editing, production, or publication process that materially impact the scientific accuracy, technical integrity, or scholarly credibility of an article, and it is permanently linked to the original publication to maintain a transparent and reliable historical archive for JOURNAL HADIS.

Corrigendum

A Corrigendum is a formal, citable notice issued by the journal to correct significant errors made directly by the authors—such as data oversights, calculation mistakes, or reference inaccuracies—that materially affect the reliability, interpretation, or scholarly contribution of the research without invalidating its core findings. To maintain a transparent academic record within JOURNAL HADIS, authors must promptly report these mistakes to the editorial board, where an approved correction is then published and permanently linked to the original article.

Retraction

A Retraction is a formal, public statement issued by the journal to completely withdraw a published article when its findings, data, or conclusions are determined to be fundamentally unreliable due to severe honest errors or proven academic misconduct, such as plagiarism or data fabrication. While initiating a retraction requires clear justification and ideally the consensus of all co-authors, the Editor-in-Chief retains final authority to act unilaterally to protect the scholarly record. To ensure complete transparency and adhere to global indexing standards, the original article is not silently deleted but remains in the digital archive prominently watermarked as ""RETRACTED,"" with a formal, citable retraction note permanently linked to it to safeguard the academic integrity of JOURNAL HADIS.

Addendum

An Addendum is a formal, citable notice issued by the journal to append crucial additional information, structural clarifications, or post-publication updates to a previously published article when significant new insights or explanatory data emerge that materially enhance the reader's understanding of the research. Unlike corrections or retractions, an addendum does not alter, contradict, or invalidate the study's original findings or conclusions; instead, it is reviewed by the editorial board and permanently linked to the original manuscript to ensure that the evolving record of scholarship remains comprehensive, transparent, and completely up to date within JOURNAL HADIS.

Ethical and Legal Considerations

All articles submitted to JOURNAL HADIS are accepted on the condition that authors have obtained explicit, written permission from the copyright owners for any previously published figures, tables, or extensive text excerpts, with all such material properly credited within the manuscript. 
Furthermore, if the research involves human participants or animal subjects, authors must strictly adhere to international ethical standards and explicitly provide the formal ethics approval number and the name of the granting institutional review board within their paper. 
By submitting a manuscript, the authors explicitly indemnify JOURNAL HADIS, its publisher, and its editorial staff against any civil or criminal liabilities, legal fees, or damages arising from a failure to secure these permissions or from the unauthorized inclusion of classified, proprietary, or defamatory material in their submission.