Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

El-Aswaq: Islamic Economics and Finance Journal published by Faculty Economic and Business Universitas Islam Malang. El-Aswaq publishes information about Islamic economics, finance, and baking particularly focuses on the main problems in the development of the sciences of Islamic Economics, Finance and Banking areas. It covers:
  1. Islamic economics
  2. Islamic finance
  3. Islamic banking
  4. Islamic microfinance
  5. Islamic insurance
  6. Islamic Agricultural fields
  7. Halal industry
  8. Zakah, waqf, Islamic social finance, and poverty alleviation
  9. Islamic law and sharia issues in economics and finance
  10. Securitization and sukuk
  11. Islamic capital markets
  12. Macroprudential Regulation
  13. Islamic Fintech
  14. Digitalization in Islamic Finance
  15. Other topics related to this area

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

OVERVIEW

All submissions can be made using our online journal systems. The editorial office will determine whether or not a manuscript is suitable for publication and meet the journal aims and scope before being processed further to the reviewing processes. Thus, those manuscripts submitted that meet our expectation/requirement will be process processed through peer reviews. Our representative will contact the author(s) once the results are available. The editor has full authority to make one of the following decisions upon received reviewers.

  • Publish as is
  • Conditionally accept with minor revisions (editor will check)
  • Conditionally accept with necessary changes as recommended by reviewer
  • The article should be thoroughly changed
  • Reject.
Every article that goes to the editorial staff are read by the editorial staff. Those manuscripts evaluated by editors to be inappropriate to journal criteria are rejected promptly without external review. Manuscripts evaluated to be of potential interest to our readership are sent to the peer reviewer. Reviewer are unaware of the identity of the authors and the authors didnt know the identity of reviewers. After that, the articles will be returned to the authors to revise. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewer recommendation.
 

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Author Fees

Author Fees

This journal charges the following author fees.

Article Submission: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are NOT required to pay an Article Submission Fee.

 

Article Publication: 0.00 (IDR)
Authors are NOT required to pay an Article Publication Fee.

 

Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics

This statement clarifies ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in our journals, including the authors, the editors, the peer-reviewers and the publisher, namely Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis Universitas Islam Malang.

Section A: Publication and authorship
  1. All submitted papers are subject to strict peer-review process by at least two Nasional Reviewers that are experts in the area of the particular paper.
  2. Review processes are blind peer review.
  3. The factors taken into account in the review are relevance, soundness, significance, originality, readability, and language.
  4. The possible decisions include acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection.
  5. If authors are encouraged to revise and resubmit a submission, there is no guarantee that the revised submission will be accepted.
  6. Rejected articles will not be re-reviewed.
  7. The paper acceptance is constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.
  8. No research can be included in more than one publication. 

Section B: Authors’ responsibilities

  1. Authors must certify that their manuscripts are their original work.
  2. Authors must certify that the manuscript has not previously been published elsewhere.
  3. Authors must certify that the manuscript is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere. 
  4. Authors must participate in the peer review process. 
  5. Authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
  6. All Authors mentioned in the paper must have significantly contributed to the research.
  7. Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic.
  8. Authors must notify the Editors of any conflicts of interest.
  9. Authors must identify all sources used in the creation of their manuscript.
  10. Authors must report any errors they discover in their published paper to the Editors. 

Section C: Reviewers’ responsibilities

  1. Reviewers should keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information. 
  2. Reviews should be conducted objectively, with no personal criticism of the author
  3. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments
  4. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors.
  5. Reviewers should also call to the Editor in Chief’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
  6. Reviewers should not review 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. 

Section D: Editors’ responsibilities

  1. Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article.
  2. Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication.
  3. Editors should always consider the needs of the authors and the readers when attempting to improve the publication.
  4. Editors should guarantee the quality of the papers and the integrity of the academic record.
  5. Editors should publish errata pages or make corrections when needed.
  6. Editors should have a clear picture of a research’s funding sources.
  7. Editors should base their decisions solely on the papers’ importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to publication’s scope.
  8. Editors should not reverse their decisions nor overturn the ones of previous editors without serious reason. 
  9. Editors should preserve the anonymity of reviewers. 
  10. Editors should ensure that all research material they publish conforms to internationally accepted ethical guidelines.
  11. Editors should only accept a paper when reasonably certain.
  12. Editors should act if they suspect misconduct, whether a paper is published or unpublished, and make all reasonable attempts to persist in obtaining a resolution to the problem.
  13. Editors should not reject papers based on suspicions; they should have proof of misconduct.
  14. Editors should not allow any conflicts of interest between staff, authors, reviewers and board members.

 

Plagiarism Policy

Every manuscript that published into El-Aswaq : Islamic Economic and Finance Journal  checked with Crossref Similarity Check which powered by iThenticate with maximum similiarity scores 20%.