Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to Al Irsyad must follow the author guidelines of this journal and be submitted through the OJS environment. The submitted manuscripts must address scientific merit or novelty appropriate to the aim and scope. All manuscripts must be free from plagiarized content. All authors are advised to use plagiarism detection software to check similarity. Editors check the plagiarism detection of articles in this journal using the Plagiarism Checker software.

The editorial team reviews articles submitted as part of the initial process. The editorial team will evaluate the feasibility of the article's content, focus, and methodology. The articles are then sent to 2 (two) reviewers for a double Blind peer review Process. Reviewer notes were then sent back to the author to be adapted to the standards of journal writing. The decision on the revised manuscript will be re-evaluated in the editorial board's meeting. Later, the editor's decision in the final meeting will be informed to the author.

Editors make decisions based on reviewer recommendations

Review Process:

    1. The author submits the manuscript 
    2. Editor Evaluation (some manuscripts are rejected or returned before the review process) 
    3. Double Bind peer review process 
    4. Editor Decision 
    5. Confirmation to the author

The estimated total time required on average is 12 weeks (3 months)

 

Screening for Plagiarism

To ensure that submitted and published articles are plagiarism-free, editors will use Turnitin's web-based software to check the similarity index with a quality standard of 10%. This process occurs when the author submits the article for the first time (submission) and the second or subsequent time (revision/after being revised based on reviewer input).

If the article meets the standards, it can be processed to the next stage (review or publication). Otherwise, the author will be asked to correct it.

Besides using Turnitin, the editor will also check with Google Scholar and other sources. This step is intended to ensure that articles are neither the result of plagiarism nor have already been sent/published to other journals (double submission).