Peer Review Process

The submitted manuscript is first reviewed by the editor. It will be evaluated whether it is in accordance with the focus and scope of the Al-Madaris Jurnal Pendidikan dan Studi Keislaman. Manuscripts that are not in accordance will be rejected and manuscript is accordance will be checked to identify plagiarism before being reviewed by reviewers.

Al-Madaris Jurnal Pendidikan dan Studi Keislaman uses a double-blind review, the manuscript will be sent to 2 anonymous reviewers. The reviewers' comments are also sent anonymously to the authors to take the necessary actions and responses. Revised manuscript decisions will be evaluated by the appropriate editor, based on reviewers' recommendations, that is, rejected, requires major revisions, requires minor revisions, or is accepted.

The Editor in Chief Al-Madaris Jurnal Pendidikan dan Studi Keislaman has the right to decide which manuscript submitted to the journal for publication. The review process may take approximately one month to be completed. For accepted paper, should authors be requested by the editor to revise the text and minor changes, the revised version should be submitted within 15 days

Review criteria

Reviewers assess originality and contribution, the state of the art and research gap, suitability of the method, depth of analysis and comparison with other relevant and recent research, whether the conclusion answers the aim, quality and currency of references, and compliance with the Author Guidelines.

Reviewers

Reviewers are qualified in the field of the manuscript and have a recent publication record. Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two reviewers from institutions different from those of the authors. All review correspondence is recorded in the journal management system.

Time limit

Reviewers are asked to return their report within 14 days. The editor makes a decision after receiving the reports: accept, minor revision, major revision, or reject.

Confidentiality and AI

Manuscripts are confidential documents. Reviewers must not use AI tools to analyse or evaluate manuscripts or to draft review comments, and must not upload a manuscript or any part of it to an AI application (see the Artificial Intelligence Policy). Reviewers who have a conflict of interest must decline the review (see Conflict of Interest).

Similarity check

Every manuscript is screened with Turnitin before review. Manuscripts with similarity above 25% (excluding the reference list) are returned to the authors for revision.