Guidelines for Editors

The Editor’s Responsibilities

  • Establishing and maintaining the quality of the journal by publishing quality papers.
  • Promotion of freedom of expression within the cultural, constitutional/legal framework

Good practices

  • Encouraging new ideas and suggestions for improving the quality of Quraniyat.
  • Appling the process of blind peer review in its true letter and spirit,
  • Promoting and implementing anti-plagiarism policy without institutional pressure.
  • Editorial Board Members are prohibited from publishing their papers in Quraniyat.
  • Self-Institutional publication is not allowed as well, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest.

Fair play and Impartiality

  • Will ensure impartial evaluation of the content of research papers,
  • Disregard all discriminating factors during the selection of articles, e.g. gender, race, ethnicity, religious belief, etc. of the author(s)

Confidentiality

  • Confidentiality of the author(s) and reviewers during the peer review process will be ensured
  • Confidentiality of the participants of the research should also be ensured.
  • Before publication, the content of the manuscript would be kept confidential.

Editing and Formatting Guidelines

  • Clear guidelines about preparing and formatting a paper are available on the Quraniyat webpage.

The Review Process

  • Articles are initially scrutinized and then go through double-blind peer review process. 
  • Sufficient guidelines along with a Reviewer’s Proforma are provided to reviewers (see: Reviewer’s Proforma download section).
  • Sharing the reviewer’s comments with author and incorporation of suggested corrections.
  • Referring troublesome cases to Advisory Committee.

Dealing with Misconduct

  • Will encourages reviewers to comment on ethical issues and possible misconduct.
  • Confirmation of plagiarism through Turnitin and/or searching for similar titles etc.
  • Will publish a corrigendum, remove and retract a plagiarized article.

Transparency

  • Only one paper as a PI (Principle Investigator) should be published in the same issue. 
  • Editorial Board Members are prohibited to publish their papers in Quraniyat. Self-Institutional publication is not allowed as well, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest. After adoption of HEC new policy for research journals for July 2019 onwards, Quraniyat does not allow Editorial Board and
  • Self-institutional publications, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest (if any).
  • Authorship & co-authorship policy will be strictly adopted.

Conflict of Interest

  • The editors and reviewers will not edit a submitted paper for those author(s) and/or institution against which s/he has any conflicts of interest.
  • Editorial Board Members are prohibited to publish their papers in Quraniyat. Self-Institutional publication is not allowed as well, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest. After adoption of HEC new policy for research journals for July 2019 onwards, Quraniyat does not allow Editorial Board and Self-institutional publications, to ensure transparency and avoid conflict of interest (if any).

Disclosure

  • will not use any unpublished information/data from the submitted research paper without the permission of the author(s).

Publication Decisions

  • Only shortlisted research papers relevant to the scope of the journal will be published after completion of the review process.
  • Acceptation or rejection of a paper will be based on academic standards.
  • The Editor will justify the reason (s) of rejecting a research paper and will timely communicate the editorial decision to the author(s).

Procedure for Appeal

The Editor is responsible for establishing a proper mechanism for appeals launched against:

  • Therejectionofaresearchpaper.
  • Objections to publications causing harm to any party.
  • Infringement of Ethical boundaries in any manner.

Publication Ethics
The following ethical guidelines are obligatory for all author(s) violations that may result in the application of penalties by the editor, including but not limited to the suspension or revocation of publishing privileges.


Reporting Standards

  • Will ensure that the research report and data contain adequate detail.
  • Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements are unethical.


Originality and Plagiarism

  • Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is not acceptable.
  • Material quoted verbatim must be placed in quotation marks.
  • If more than 19% similarity index has been found in the TURNITIN Similarity index, it will either be rejected (As per HEC’s policy) or left at the discretion of the Editorial Board for the reduction of similarity by possible changes for further acceptance.


Declaration

  • A declaration is required that the manuscript contains solely the author's original work that is not under consideration for publishing in any other journal in any form.
  • An undertaking must accompany a co-authored paper to claim the right to authorship and to ensure that all agree with the authorship order.


Multiple, Redundant, and Current Publication

  • Authors should not submit manuscripts describing the same research to more than one journal or publication except if it is a re-submission of a rejected or withdrawn manuscript.
  • Concurrent submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal is unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgment of Sources

  • A paper must always contain a proper acknowledgment of the work of others.
  • The author(s) must also acknowledge the contributions of people, organizations, and institutes who assisted the research process or financial funding (in the acknowledgment).
  • It is the duty of the author(s) to conduct a literature review and cite the original publications.


Authorship Credit

  • Authorship of the work may only be credited to those who have made a noteworthy contribution in conceptualization, conducting, data analysis, and writing the manuscript.
  • The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.


Privacy of Participants

  • Authors must respect the privacy of the participant(s) of the research.
  • Authors must ensure that in instances where the participants identity needs to be revealed in the study, explicit and informed consent of the concerned party is obtained.


Data Access and Retention

  • The author(s) should provide raw data to the Editor if any question arises about the accuracy or validity of the research work during the review process.
  • The author(s) must provide an accurate description of how the images were generated and produced and will ensure they are free of manipulation.


Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

  • The potential conflicts of interest of all author(s) must be conveyed to the editor at the earliest possible stage, including but not limited to employment, consultancies, honoraria, etc.
  • All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Copyright

  • Authors may have to sign an agreement for CC-BY.


Manuscript Acceptance and Rejection

  • During the review period, the author can contact the Editor to ask about its status.
  • In case of revisions, the author(s) must provide an exposition of all corrections made in the manuscript. The revised manuscript should then go through the process of affirmation of revisions and be accepted or rejected accordingly.
  • In case of dissatisfaction over the rejection decision, the author can appeal the decision by contacting the Editor.