Peer Review Process

FIKROTUNA: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Manajemen Islam maintains a stringent peer-review process to ensure the excellence and validity of its published research. This process is a double-blind review, ensuring anonymity for both authors and reviewers. Experts in the relevant fields conduct the review, evaluating submissions for scientific significance, innovation, and relevance to the journal's aims.

1. Preliminary Assessment: The editorial team examines each manuscript to verify if it aligns with the journal's focus and meets publication standards. Manuscripts failing to meet these criteria or showing more than 20% similarity to existing works are immediately rejected. The team also checks for proper formatting and citation style in accordance with the Author Guidelines. Non-compliant manuscripts are returned for correction and resubmission. Successfully vetted manuscripts proceed to the peer review stage.
2. Selection of Reviewers: The editorial board identifies at least three independent reviewers knowledgeable in the manuscript's subject area and experienced in the relevant research. Reviewers and authors remain unaware of each other's identity. The editorial board ensures that reviewers are from institutions different from the authors', considers their scientific expertise and any potential conflicts of interest, and extends invitations to review. The goal is to appoint reviewers within four weeks.
3. Evaluation Process: Reviewers assess the manuscript's scientific rigor, originality, validity, and pertinence to the field, typically within two to four weeks. They offer detailed feedback to help the authors refine the manuscript, suggesting acceptance, revisions, or rejection.
4. Editorial Decision: The editor-in-chief makes the decision to accept, reject, or request revisions based on reviewer feedback and compliance with publication standards. If reviewer opinions vary significantly, an additional reviewer may be consulted. The editor's decision and anonymous reviewer comments are communicated to the authors. The goal is to issue the first decision within six weeks of submission and to publish accepted manuscripts within 6 to 12 weeks of acceptance.
5. Revision Stage: Authors of manuscripts needing revisions must incorporate the suggested changes and submit the revised version, highlighting the alterations and including a letter addressing the feedback. Deadlines for revisions are two weeks for minor changes and four weeks for major changes. The original reviewers re-evaluate manuscripts with major revisions to confirm the effectiveness of the revisions.
6. Final Steps to Publication: Accepted manuscripts must be submitted in their final form for copyediting, layout editing, and proofreading before publication.