Authorship & Contributorship

Authorship & Contributorship Policy

The Journal of Islamic Economics and Business (JIEB) is committed to ensuring transparency, fairness, and accountability in the recognition of authorship and scholarly contributions. Authorship represents both a substantial intellectual contribution to research and responsibility for the integrity of the published work.

All authors and contributors are expected to comply with this policy throughout manuscript preparation, submission, peer review, and publication.

1. Criteria for Authorship

Individuals listed as authors must have made substantial intellectual contributions to the research. Each author is expected to meet the following criteria:

Make a substantial contribution to the conception or design of the research, or to the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data.
Participate in drafting the manuscript or critically revising it for important intellectual content.
Approve the final version of the manuscript for publication.
Agree to be accountable for the integrity and accuracy of their contributions and to help address questions concerning the work as a whole.

All listed authors must satisfy the journal's authorship criteria. Individuals who have contributed to the work but do not meet these criteria should not be listed as authors solely because of their position, seniority, funding support, or institutional affiliation.

2. Author Contributions

JIEB encourages authors to provide a clear and transparent description of each author's contribution to the research and manuscript. Where appropriate, authors may use the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) to describe individual contributions.

Relevant contributor roles may include:

Conceptualization
Methodology
Data curation
Formal analysis
Investigation
Writing – original draft
Writing – review and editing
Supervision
Project administration
Funding acquisition

The use of CRediT describes the nature of individual contributions but does not automatically qualify a contributor for authorship. Contributors who do not meet the authorship criteria may be acknowledged, subject to their consent.

3. Responsibilities of the Corresponding Author

The corresponding author is responsible for coordinating communication with the editorial office throughout submission, peer review, revision, and publication.

The corresponding author must ensure that:

All eligible authors are included in the manuscript.
Author names, affiliations, and contact details are accurate.
The order of authors has been agreed upon by all authors.
All co-authors have reviewed and approved the submitted manuscript and its final version.
Relevant declarations concerning funding, research ethics, data availability, and competing interests are complete and accurate, where applicable.
All co-authors are informed of important editorial communications and participate in resolving questions concerning the manuscript.

4. Changes in Authorship

Any request to add, remove, or rearrange authors after manuscript submission must include a clear explanation and written agreement from all affected authors. The journal may request confirmation from all co-authors before considering the proposed change.

Requests made after acceptance or publication require additional editorial assessment to protect the integrity of the scholarly record. The journal may request supporting documentation before making a decision.

JIEB does not permit guest authorship, gift or honorary authorship without qualifying contributions, ghost authorship, or the purchase of authorship.

Where an authorship dispute cannot be resolved through the available documentation and communication, the journal may seek clarification from the relevant research institutions and may suspend editorial processing until the matter is resolved.

5. Acknowledgments

Individuals who have provided technical assistance, administrative support, language editing, or other contributions that do not meet the authorship criteria may be acknowledged in the manuscript.

Authors must obtain permission from individuals before naming them in the acknowledgments. Acknowledgments should describe the nature of the contribution accurately and must not imply authorship where the relevant criteria have not been met.

Financial support, institutional assistance, and other relevant contributions must be disclosed where applicable.

6. Use of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence systems and other automated tools cannot be listed as authors because they cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of scholarly work.

Authors remain fully responsible for verifying AI-generated content, references, data interpretations, and any other material incorporated into their manuscripts. The use of such tools must not compromise research integrity, confidentiality, originality, or the rights of others.

Any relevant use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools must be disclosed in accordance with the journal's Generative AI Policy.

7. Ethical Compliance and Accountability

All authors are expected to uphold academic integrity, avoid plagiarism and data fabrication or falsification, and ensure that their manuscripts represent original scholarly work.

Manuscripts must not be submitted simultaneously to another journal. All authors must agree to the submission and comply with the journal's publication ethics requirements.

Authors must disclose relevant competing interests and funding sources and meet applicable research ethics requirements. Further information is available in the journal's Publication Ethics and Conflict of Interest Policy.

JIEB reserves the right to investigate credible concerns about authorship, request supporting documentation, consult relevant institutions where appropriate, and take editorial action in accordance with its publication ethics policies.