Al-Risalah: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah dan Hukum is owned and published by the Faculty of Sharia and Law, Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar, Indonesia. As an academic journal operating within a public higher education institution, the journal is committed to advancing scholarly research and disseminating original contributions in Islamic law, Sharia studies, and contemporary legal scholarship.
The journal's ownership encompasses its publishing identity, journal title, and associated publishing assets, subject to applicable institutional regulations and intellectual property laws. The journal operates within the institutional framework of Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar while maintaining the academic integrity and editorial autonomy necessary for scholarly publishing.
The institution supports the journal's development and long-term sustainability, including its academic mission, publishing infrastructure, and dissemination of scholarly knowledge. Institutional ownership does not confer authority to influence editorial decisions on the basis of personal interests, institutional preferences, or external pressure.
The management of Al-Risalah: Jurnal Ilmu Syariah dan Hukum is organized to ensure professional journal administration, academic quality, transparency, and editorial independence. The journal is managed by an editorial team led by the Editor-in-Chief, with technical and publishing support provided through the relevant institutional journal management infrastructure.
The Editorial Team is responsible for the journal's academic and editorial operations, including:
Establishing and implementing editorial policies and publication standards.
Conducting initial assessments of submitted manuscripts for relevance, originality, quality, and compliance with the journal's scope.
Selecting qualified and independent reviewers with relevant subject expertise.
Administering the double-anonymous peer-review process.
Evaluating reviewers' recommendations and making editorial decisions based on scholarly merit, methodological rigor, originality, relevance, and compliance with publication ethics.
Ensuring the consistent application of the journal's authorship, plagiarism, research ethics, conflict-of-interest, correction, and retraction policies.
Maintaining the confidentiality of manuscripts and editorial deliberations.
The Editor-in-Chief holds primary responsibility for editorial decisions, supported by the editorial team in accordance with the journal's established policies. Editorial decisions are made independently of the institution's administrative interests, financial considerations, and the personal or professional affiliations of authors.
The publishing and technical operations of the journal are supported by the relevant journal management and technical support unit at Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar, including the Rumah Jurnal, where applicable. These functions may include:
Maintaining and supporting the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.
Providing technical assistance for manuscript submission, peer review, and publication workflows.
Coordinating manuscript copyediting, proofreading, layout, and typesetting.
Supporting DOI registration, metadata management, and digital preservation.
Facilitating the dissemination of published articles through indexing services, scholarly databases, and academic repositories.
Maintaining the technical accessibility and operational continuity of the journal's website.
Technical and administrative personnel do not determine the academic suitability of manuscripts or override editorial decisions. Their responsibilities are limited to the functions assigned to them within the journal's publishing workflow.
Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar and the relevant faculty provide the institutional framework within which the journal operates. Institutional support may include administrative coordination, publishing infrastructure, technical services, and other resources necessary for the journal's sustainability.
The journal maintains editorial independence in the evaluation, peer review, acceptance, rejection, and publication of manuscripts. No institutional administrator, owner representative, sponsor, or other external party may improperly influence editorial decisions or require the publication or rejection of a manuscript for reasons unrelated to scholarly quality and publication ethics.
All editorial decisions are guided by the journal's stated aims and scope, established editorial policies, peer-review outcomes, and recognized principles of responsible scholarly publishing.
The Editorial Team is accountable for implementing the journal's editorial policies and maintaining the integrity of its publication process. The journal is committed to providing clear information about its ownership, management structure, editorial responsibilities, peer-review procedures, and publication ethics.
Any potential conflict of interest involving editors, reviewers, authors, or institutional representatives must be managed in accordance with the journal's conflict-of-interest policy. These arrangements are intended to safeguard impartial editorial judgment, protect the credibility of the scholarly record, and maintain the trust of authors, reviewers, readers, and the wider academic community.
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