Focus and Scope

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research is focused on of Arabic education. This journal published by the Arabic Education Department, Faculty of Education, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta.

This journal warmly welcomes contributions from students, scholars, and practitioners of Arabic education in Indonesia and around the world. All articles will be reviewed by editors before accepted for publication. All authors will take public responsibility for the content of the manuscript submitted to Kalimatuna.

The focus is to provide readers with a better understanding of Arabic instructional through the publication of articles. Specifically, this journal encompasses original research articles about:

1. Alquran and Arabic language
2. Arabic linguistics studies in micro and macro terms (such us phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics; sociolinguistics, anthropolinguistics, philology, and script studies)
3. Balagah or Arabic stylistic (pragmatics in Arabic and ‘ilm ma‘aniy, rhetoric of Arabic and ‘ilm bayan, figurative style of Arabic and ‘ilm bada«â€˜)
4. Language acquisitions of Arabic language
5. Pedagogical Arabic instructional as a foreign language and for non-native speaker (such us strategy, approach, methods, techniques, teaching model, media and ICT for Arabic teaching)
6. Policies on Arabic teaching (such us language curriculum development, language evaluation and assessment, language testing, teaching material for Arabic lessons)

Section Policies

Articles

• Open Submissions
• Indexed
• Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year since 2022. Manuscripts submitted to this journal should be written in Arabic, Indonesian, or English and should address its main focus and scope, the teaching and learning of Arabic as a foreign language and its related issues. The journal primarily accepts original-research-based manuscripts for its publication and only accepts a small proportion of non-research papers. All submitted manuscripts are subject to stages of editorial process including a double-blind review process. Once a manuscript is submitted to the journal through an online submission process, an assigned section editor will do an initial screening to examine eligibility of the manuscript for a full review process (for example, whether it is in compliance with the focus and scope of the journal). If it passes the initial screening, the manuscript will be blindly reviewed by two reviewers, and a third reviewer maybe added in case the two reviewers have differing opinions on the review results. Considering review reports by the peer reviewers, the journal’s editorial board will finally deliberate on the final decision, whether to accept or reject the manuscript.

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...

Retraction

The articles published in Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research  will be considered to retract in the publication if:

1. It has a clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct (e.g. data fabrication) or honest error (e.g. miscalculation or experimental error).

2. The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e. cases of redundant publication).

3. It contains plagiarism.

4. It reports an unethical research.

The mechanism of retraction follows the Retraction Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) which can be accessed at https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf

Publication Fee

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research is an open access journal. Authors should not pay some processing fees (Free Charges) for article processing and DOI maintenance once their articles has been accepted.

Publication Ethic

Publication Ethic and Malpractice Statement

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research is a peer-reviewed journal, available in print and online and published 2 times a year. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer­­­­­ and the publisher (Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta). This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Plagiarism Checker

The article that can be reviewed by editor board after completing the attachment of plagiarism checker and stated that article at least 75% is origin using tools of checker [Turnitin, Plagiarisma, and Grammarly].

Journal policies on authorship and contributorship

 Authorship credit should be based on any or all of the following:

1) Substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;

2) Drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and

3) Final approval of the version to be published.

All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed.

The contributions of all authors must be described. The submitting author is responsible for providing the contributions of all authors at submission. We expect that all authors will have reviewed, discussed, and agreed to their contributions ahead of this time. Contributions will be published with the final article and should accurately reflect contributions to the work. This elaboration is based on COPE's principle of Authorship and contributorship.

Contributor Role

 Role Definition

Conceptualization

 Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.

Data Curation

 Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data, and maintain research data for initial use and later re-use. 

Formal Analysis

 Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.

Funding Acquisition

 Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.

Investigation

 Conducting a research and investigation process, explicitly performing the experiments or data/evidence collection.

Methodology

 Development or design of methodology; creation of models

Project Administration

 Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.

Supervision

 Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.

Validation

 Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.

Visualization

 Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.

Writing – Original Draft Preparation

 Creation and/or presentation of the published work, explicitly writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).

Writing – Review & Editing

 Preparation, creation, and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.

How will the journal handle complaints and appeals?

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on appeals to journal editor decisions and complaints about a journal's editorial management of the peer review process.

If you wish to appeal a journal editor's decision, please submit an appeal letter to the journal's online editorial office. Please address this to the Editor and explain the basis for an appeal. You should:

Detail why you disagree with the decision. Please provide specific responses to any of the Editor's and/or reviewers' comments that contributed to the rejection decision.

• Provide any new information or data you would like the journal to consider.
• Provide evidence if you believe a reviewer has made technical errors in their assessment of your manuscript.
• Include evidence if a reviewer may have a conflict of interest.

This elaboration is based on COPE's principle of Complaints and appeals

Journal policies on conflicts of interest / competing interests

A competing interest — often called a conflict of interest — exists when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as patients' welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain or personal rivalry). It may arise for the authors of an article in Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research when they have a financial interest that may influence, probably without their knowing, their interpretation of their results or those of others. We believe that to make the best decision on how to deal with an article, we should know about any competing interests that authors may have and that if we publish the article, readers should know about them too.

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research Policies on Data Sharing and Reproducibility

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research Editors strongly encourage authors to include additional material data sets and codes that demonstrate the results shown in their final article. Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research editors may set their policies based on this broad principle, and authors may request a waiver for reasons of confidentiality or security.

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research is also introducing a basic data-sharing policy across all its journal titles. This policy will encourage authors to share and make the data underlying their published article publicly available when it does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid subject privacy concerns.

Authors will be further encouraged to cite any data referenced in their paper. Whether this has been created by the author or someone else, cited data sets should be included in the reference list. Finally, authors will be encouraged to include a data availability statement. Data-sharing policies will be set at the journal level in consultation with editors, relevant societies, or other stakeholders.

Journal's policy on ethical oversight

The journal is committed to upholding the highest ethical standards in research publication. The journal attaches particular importance to ethical values such as honesty, excellence in research practice, transparency, open communication, and respect. It follows the guidelines the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) set. The authors agree to follow its ethical guidelines by submitting a manuscript to the journal.

Authorship: Anyone who has made a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data; drafts the work or revises it critically; approves the final version of the work; agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work should be listed as an author of the manuscript. Anyone who contributed to the work but failed to meet the authorship criteria should be acknowledged. The corresponding author is the person who handles the correspondence during the publication process and has the authority to act on behalf of all co-authors in all matters related to the publication of the article. The corresponding author continues to serve as the main point of contact for any inquiries after the article is published.

Conflict of Interest: To ensure that the articles published in the journal are free from inappropriate external influence, authors must declare any potential conflict of interests that may affect the objectivity or integrity of the article. These conflicts may be financial, non-financial, professional, or personal in nature.

Funding: Authors must provide details of the source of funding received during the manuscript preparation as required by the funding and grant-awarding bodies.

Studies Involving Human or Animal Subjects: Studies involving human or animal subjects must abide by institutional and national policies for ethical conduct and include proper documentation such as ethical committee approvals, informed consent, and other legal permissions.

Ethical Oversight: Research works that include potentially hazardous chemicals or procedures must clearly state the details. If necessary, the submission must be accompanied by the appropriate ethical documentation.

Data Sharing and Availability: The journal expects the authors to be open and transparent about the data, code, or other materials related to the published content. To ensure that the findings of the study are reproducible and reliable, authors are encouraged to deposit data in a suitable repository and describe where the data may be found.

Advertising: The journal allows limited and targeted advertising on its website to exclusively promote selected research content published by the journal publisher.

Complaints and Appeals: Anyone who may be concerned that publication ethics guidelines or principles are not followed should raise their complaints and appeals with details and documents about the case. Complaints and appeals should be directed to kalimatuna@uinjkt.ac.id. All complaints and appeals will be handled rigorously according to the best practices of COPE.

Corrections and Retractions: The journal will publish a corrigendum or an erratum if an error is found during post-publication. Retractions are issued if the errors are significant and results and conclusions are no longer reliable. Suppose serious ethical malpractices such as plagiarism and duplication are discovered in a published article. In that case, the journal reserves the right to retract the article and take up the matter with relevant academic bodies or institutions.

Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Licensing Policy

Intellectual Property and Copyright

Authors certify that their submitted manuscript (and any supporting items) are their own intellectual property, and the copyright has not been transferred to others.

Authors certify that the manuscript contains no plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, or manipulated citations and that the manuscript conforms to Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research authorship policies.

Authors certify that for any copyrighted tables, figures, data, text, etc., permission has been obtained from the copyright holders to reproduce.

All manuscripts, revisions, drafts, and galleys remain the intellectual property of the author(s). Except as stated in the agreed license, the author(s) retain the copyright to their work.

Authors retain the full right to modify, reshare, repost, or archive any version of their copyrighted work.

All review comments and reports remain the intellectual property of the reviewer or Editor. Except as stated in the agreed license, the author(s) retain the copyright to their work.

Authors, reviewers, and editors agree to keep all communications, comments, or reports from reviewers or editors confidential.

Reviewers and editors agree to keep all manuscripts, revisions, and drafts confidential, except the final published galley(s).

License

Authors agree that all accepted manuscripts, galleys, and submitted supporting documents are immediately and irrevocably released under a Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

The license will be indicated on the front page of each online article galley. The license will also be indicated within each issue of the print edition.

Reporting

Suspicion of violations of this policy should be made to the editor-in-chief via the Complaints and Appeals process.

Journal's options for post-publication discussions and corrections

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research recognizes the significance of Post Publication Discussions on published research, and our journals are open to such discussions.

Post-Publication Discussions may be published online after review and are usually accompanied by a response from the original authors.

Instructions to Authors, available at individual journal's website, may be referred to for details of submission criteria and peer review process for post-publication discussions.

Handling Post-Publication Matters:

To maintain the integrity of scientific research, Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research carries out investigations regarding the concerns raised by authors and/or readers. However, authors are always allowed to respond to all complaints/ comments. We may require reviewers to go over the original data and consult with experts involved in order to solve and conclude the investigation. The following actions may be taken depending on Post-publication discussions and corrections severity of the issue:

A Corrigendum may be published.

An Editor's Note and/or Editorial Expression of Concern may be published; a second notification might also be published once the investigation is complete.

The article may be retracted.

If the outcome of the investigation highlights some serious issues, such as fraud or academic misconduct, then the author's institution may be informed about the matter.

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research does not intend to target any individual as its goal is to ensure transparency. The readers may, instead, be referred to the concerned reports of the institutional investigation, but only if these are publicly made available. While the investigation is in progress, which usually takes time to conclude, an Editor's Notes and/or Editorial Expressions of Concern (EEoC) is published to notify the readers about the criticism received in respect of the published article as recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Editor's Notes and EEoCs are replaced by publishing a revision―such as a corrigendum or retraction―once a decision is finalized after a complete investigation.

An Editor's Note is a message for the readers if the journal has launched an investigation in case of concerns raised on the published content. It is just an online update and is not indexed.

An Editorial Expression of Concern (EEoC) is a declaration by the Editor notifying readers about any serious concerns shadowing the probity of the published article. EEOC's is linked to the published paper, assigned with a DOI, and are listed in scholarly databases, such as PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, etc.

Plagiarism Policy

Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research recognizes that plagiarism is not acceptable for all author and therefore establishes the following policy stating specific actions (penalties) when plagiarism is identified by  Kalimatuna: Journal of Arabic Research anti-plagiarism software detection (we are using turnitin.com )  in an article that is submitted for publication. The article must below 25% of plagiarism

 “Plagiarism is copying another person’s text or ideas and passing the copied material as your own work. You must both delineate (i.e., separate and identify) the copied text from your text and give credit to (i.e., cite the source) the source of the copied text to avoid accusations of plagiarism.  Plagiarism is considered fraud and has potentially harsh consequences including loss of job, loss of reputation, and the assignation of reduced or failing grade in a course."

This definition of plagiarism applies for copied text and ideas:

 1. Regardless of the source of the copied text or idea.

 2. Regardless of whether the author(s) of the text or idea which you have copied actually copied that  text or idea from another source.

 3. Regardless of whether or not the authorship of the text or idea which you copy is known

 4. Regardless of the nature of your text (journal paper/article, web page, book chapter, paper submitted for a college course, etc) into which you copy the text or idea

 5. Regardless of whether or not the author of the source of the copied material gives permission for the material to be copied; and

 6.  Regardless of whether you are or are not the author of the source of the copied text or idea (self-plagiarism).

When plagiarism is identified by the Plagiarism Checker  software,  the Editorial Board responsible for the review of this paper and will agree on measures according to the extent of plagiarism detected in the article in agreement with the following guidelines:

Minor Plagiarism

A small sentence or short paragraph of another manuscript is plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other papers or publications.

Punishment: A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the manuscript and properly cite the original sources.

Intermediate Plagiarism

A significant data, paragraph, or sentence of an article is plagiarized without proper citation to the original source.

Punishment: The submitted article is automatic rejected.

Severe Plagiarism

A large portion of an article is plagiarized that involves many aspects such as reproducing original results (data, formulation, equation, law, statement, etc.), ideas, and methods presented in other publications.

Punishment: The paper is automatic rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles to the journal.