About the Journal

Focus and Scope

This journal specializes on Islamic Finance, Islamic Banking, and Islamic Finance Institutions., and is intended to communicate original research and current issues. AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking invites manuscripts in the areas of:

1. Islamic Banking
2. Islamic Rural Bank
3. Islamic Assurance
4. Islamic Pawnshop
5. Islamic Capital Market
6. Islamic Microfinance
7. Islamic Mutual Funds
8. Islamic Bonds

Peer Review Process

Each article submitted to the AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking Editor will be checked on the suitability of the format and scope with the the AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking, then a peer review will be conducted with at least 2 reviewers with double blind peer review, in accordance with the scope of the scholarship/topic. The results of the review will be returned to the author and the author must take a revision. If the repair is enough to meet the rules to be loaded then the article will go into the next process, but if not yet the editor will return the article to the author for repairs again. Each article must also meet the permissible equality limit of 20%.

Publication Frequency

This journal published twice in every volume (April and October).

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.

About Journal

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking is a peer-reviewed journal, published biannually by Department of Sharia Banking, Faculty of Islamic Economics and Business, State Islamic University (UIN) Walisongo Semarang Indonesia. It is available online as open access sources as well as in print. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the editor-in-chief, the Editorial Board, the reviewer, and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Ethical Guideline for Journal Publication

The publication of an article in AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking 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 methods. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the editor, the reviewer, the publisher, and the society. As the publisher of AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking, Publisher takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing seriously and it recognizes its ethical and other responsibilities. Department of Sharia Banking committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. 

Publication Decisions

The editor of the AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking 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

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

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff 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

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research 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 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.

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 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 behaviour and are unacceptable.

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 behaviour and is unacceptable.

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 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.

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 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.

Screen for Plagiarsm

Articles submitted to AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking will be filtered using Turnitin software, with a maximum of 20% similarities permitted.

Plagiarism includes:

1. Word-for-word plagiarism – borrowing another author’s language word-for-word but not putting it in quotation marks or citing it correctly.
2. Source plagiarism – using the ideas of others without giving recognition or citing the source explicitly.
3. Plagiarism of authorship – presenting another author's work as one’s own.
4. Self-plagiarism - authors publishing an article in more than one journal by recycling papers. The important issue related to self-plagiarism is that when citing one's own work, significant changes must have been made to the new article. The previous article should only contain a small percentage of any new article produced. So readers will receive new information, which tmay inspired by but different from the previous articles.

Reference Manager

The manuscript that is registered must use the manager's reference application: Mendeley or Zotero.

Revenue Sources, Advertising, and Direct Marketing Policy

Revenue Sources

The operations of AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking are funded by the State (the Ministry of Religious Affairs Republic of Indonesia), through Daftar Isian Pelaksanaan Anggaran (DIPA) of Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo Semarang, Indonesia.

Advertising

AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking does not accept advertising from any parties.

Direct Marketing

In promoting the journal and publications to the public, AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking attempts to avoid actions detrimental to other parties (e.g., spreading spam) and to avoid misleading information between prospective authors and the publishers.

Journal History

AL-ARBAH: Journal of Islamic Finance and Banking was established in October 2019, with ISSN Number: 2716-3946 (print media) based on Decree no. 0005.27163946/JI.3.1/SK.ISSN/2020.01 - February 10, 2020, and ISSN Number: 2716-2575 (online media) based on Decree no. 0005.27163946/JI.3.1/SK.ISSN/2020.01 - February 10, 2020. The ISSN of this journal is ROAD ISSN can be seen by clicking here.