Introduction

Compliance with publication ethics ensures the integrity of scientific publishing and confidence in published articles. Therefore, the Al-Mu’arrib : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Arab expect all authors to adhere to ethical requirements in the preparation of their manuscript.

Ethical guidelines for journal publication

The publication of an article in the peer-reviewed journals published by Al-Mu’arrib: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Arab is process of permanent knowledge improvement. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society of society-owned or sponsored journals.

Al-Mu’arrib: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Arab takes their duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognise our ethical and other responsibilities.

We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful to editors.

Originality and plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others, that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Al-Mu’arrib: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Arab considers plagiarism a serious offense. it is committed to eliminating manuscripts with possible cases of plagiarism from its review and publication process. 

Plagiarism takes many forms, from 'passing off' another's paper as the author's own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another's paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable

Al-Mu’arrib: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Arab  uses the Turnitin plagiarism detection application to check each manuscript for possible cases of plagiarism.Plagiarism check is the first step in the manuscript review process. Manuscripts that are found to contain unacceptable levels of similarity with other published works are immediately rejected. Submitted manuscripts should be the original works of the author(s). Al-Mu’arrib: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Arab will follow COPE guidelines in suspected cases of plagiarism. Al-Mu’arrib: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Arab  has a 25% similarity tolerance.

Duplicate submissions

Duplicate submission is a situation whereby an author submits the same or similar manuscripts to two different journals at the same time either within Al-Mu’arrib: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Arab or any other publisher. This includes the submission of manuscripts derived from the same data in such a manner that there are no substantial differences in the manuscripts. Duplicate submission also includes the submission of the same/similar manuscript in different languages to different journals.

Fabrication and falsification of data

It is unethical to fabricate, manipulate, or falsify data in a manuscript.  Al-Mu’arrib: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Arab is by COPE guidelines in dealing with suspected cases of data fabrication and falsification.

Citations manipulation

A manuscript should contain only relevant citations. The inclusion of citations that are not relevant to the work is strongly discouraged. Similarly, irrelevant self-citation to increase one’s citation is unethical.