Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Journal of Islamic Medicine (JIM) is the official scientific journal of the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, published biannually in March and September. The journal serves as a scholarly platform for researchers, academics, clinicians, and health professionals to disseminate research in medicine and health sciences.
JIM publishes original research articles, review articles, and case reports in the following areas:

  • Basic Medical Sciences
  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Clinical Medicine
  • Public Health and Community Medicine
  • Medical and Health Professions Education
  • Hajj and Umrah Health
  • Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
  • Integration of Islamic Values in Medicine and Health Sciences.

JIM welcomes manuscripts that contribute to the development of medical and health sciences. The journal especially encourages studies that combine Islamic perspectives in medicine and health sciences.



 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

JIM employs a double-blind peer review process, ensuring that the identities of both authors and reviewers remain anonymous throughout the review process.
All submitted manuscripts undergo an initial editorial screening to assess their suitability for the journal’s scope, quality standards, originality, and ethical requirements. Manuscripts that do not meet these criteria may be rejected without external review.
Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are evaluated by at least two independent reviewers with relevant expertise. The final publication decision is made by the Editor based on the reviewers’ recommendations.

Review Workflow

  1. Manuscript submission.
  2. Initial editorial screening.
  3. Double-blind peer review.
  4. Editorial decision.
  5. Author revision (if required).
  6. Final decision and publication.

 

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.

All articles published in this journal are immediately and permanently free to read and download. We continuously work with our author community to ensure the best licensing options. Currently, this journal uses the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

 

Archiving

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries, enabling them to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration purposes.

The LOCKSS Publisher Manifest page for this journal is available at: https://ejournal.uin-malang.ac.id/index.php/jim/gateway/lockss

 

Publication Ethics Statement

This journal is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and follows the principles and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), the Declaration of Helsinki, and the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS).
Everyone involved in the publication process, including editors, reviewers, authors, and the publisher, is expected to follow ethical standards and maintain honesty and transparency in publishing.

Editors' Responsibilities
Editors are responsible for making publication decisions based on the scientific quality, originality, relevance, and ethical standards of submitted manuscripts. Editors evaluate manuscripts fairly and objectively without discrimination and ensure the confidentiality of all submissions. Any potential conflicts of interest must be disclosed and managed appropriately. Suspected misconduct will be handled according to COPE guidelines.

Reviewers' Responsibilities
Reviewers are expected to provide objective, constructive, and timely evaluations of manuscripts. They must maintain the confidentiality of the review process, declare any conflicts of interest, and report any concerns regarding plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, or other forms of publication misconduct.

Authors' Responsibilities
Authors must submit original work that has not been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. All sources must be properly acknowledged, and plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, and redundant publication are strictly prohibited.
Research involving human participants must comply with the Declaration of Helsinki and receive approval from an appropriate ethics committee. Studies involving animals must follow applicable institutional and international ethical guidelines. Authors are responsible for obtaining informed consent when required and for protecting participants’ privacy and confidentiality.
All authors must meet the authorship criteria recommended by ICMJE and disclose any financial, personal, or institutional conflicts of interest that could influence the research or its interpretation.

Publisher's Responsibilities
The publisher supports editorial independence and is committed to ensuring that all published content adheres to ethical publishing standards. The publisher has no influence on editorial decisions and works with editors to address allegations of misconduct when necessary.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to all published content, based on the principle that free and unrestricted access to research promotes the global exchange of knowledge and advances scientific progress.
All articles published in this journal are freely available online immediately upon publication and may be read, downloaded, and shared without subscription or access fees.
This journal publishes articles under the following license: Lisensi Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Internasional (CC BY-SA 4.0)

 

Plagiarism Policy

This journal only accepts original manuscripts that have not been published previously and are not under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism using Turnitin before entering the peer-review process. Manuscripts with a similarity index exceeding 20% may be returned to the authors for revision or rejected at the editor’s discretion.