Plagiarism Policy
All manuscripts submitted to HURMAH: Islamic Journal of Human Rights will undergo rigorous originality screening using the Turnitin plagiarism detection tool. The journal maintains a strict policy against plagiarism and self-plagiarism, and submissions found to violate this policy will be rejected immediately. The maximum acceptable overall similarity index is 20%, with the critical stipulation that similarity from any single source must not exceed 3%. This screening is conducted as a preliminary step before any manuscript enters the peer-review process.
HURMAH: Islamic Journal of Human Rights is committed to upholding the highest international standards of academic integrity and expects all authors to exercise due diligence in this matter. Plagiarism, defined as the appropriation of ideas, information, or wording from another source without appropriate attribution, constitutes a serious academic offense. This remains true even in cases of unintentional violation, and such practices are unacceptable in scholarly publication.
Authors are required to provide a citation whenever they incorporate specific information—such as a name, date, statistical figure, or detailed fact—learned from a particular source, with exceptions made only for common knowledge. Furthermore, a citation is mandatory when an author builds upon an idea, methodology, interpretation, or conclusion derived from another author's work, requiring that the source be credited before the author elaborates on their own developed perspective. The use of another author's exact words requires both a citation and the use of quotation marks; whenever four or more consecutive words are identical to a source, they must be enclosed in quotation marks, as a citation alone is insufficient.
HURMAH: Islamic Journal of Human Rights takes academic integrity very seriously. The editorial board reserves the right to retract acceptance from any paper found to breach the aforementioned standards at any stage of publication. For further clarification, potential authors are encouraged to contact the editorial office at hurmah.ijhr@gmail.com.
Generative AI Policy
HURMAH: Islamic Journal of Human Rights upholds the core values of academic integrity, original scholarly contribution, and ethical research in regulating the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies. Internationally recognized publication ethics guides this policy and reflects the journal's specific commitment to indigenous knowledge systems, community-centered research, and authentic leadership scholarship that emerges from and respects local contexts. Generative AI, which includes tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Claude, as well as image generators like DALL·E and Midjourney, presents significant risks for indigenous scholarship, including the propagation of inaccuracies and cultural bias, erosion of traditional knowledge protocols, confidentiality breaches, and intellectual property misappropriation.
Our policy is founded on the following key principles:
- a) Scholarly Writing and Content Creation
The use of Generative AI to write, generate, or compose any substantive portion of a manuscript—including theoretical frameworks, literature reviews, methodological descriptions, findings, or discussion—is strictly prohibited. The narrative, analysis, and conceptual contributions must originate from the authors' own intellectual and culturally situated understanding. Authors bear absolute responsibility for the content's accuracy, validity, and its fidelity to indigenous perspectives and lived experiences.
- b) Data Generation and Interpretation
Generative AI must not be used to create, fabricate, synthesize, or interpret research data. This prohibition applies to all forms of data central to indigenous studies, including oral histories, community narratives, ethnographic observations, and survey results. The authors must conduct data collection, analysis, and interpretation to ensure methodological transparency, cultural accountability, and the authentic representation of community voices.
- c) Cultural and Contextual Knowledge
Particularly critical for this journal, Generative AI must not be employed to generate, explain, or interpret indigenous knowledge, cultural practices, linguistic terms, or historical accounts. Relying on AI for such content risks profound misrepresentation, cultural appropriation, and the detachment of scholarship from its legitimate cultural sources and knowledge holders.
- d) Language Editing and Proofreading
Limited use of Generative AI is permitted solely for basic language polishing, such as correcting grammar and spelling and improving sentence clarity, for manuscripts not originally written in the journal's publication language. This use must not alter the scholarly argument, nuance, tone, or the culturally specific phrasing of the work. Authors are wholly responsible for the final language and its appropriateness within the cultural context of their research.
- e) Images and Visual Materials
The submission of images, figures, or visual representations entirely generated by AI is not permitted. All visual materials must be authentic and originate from the author's original research, such as fieldwork documentation, community-approved imagery, or author-created diagrams. This ensures visual materials are ethically sourced and culturally respectful.
Author Responsibility and Declaration
Authors must disclose any use of Generative AI in the preparation of their manuscript in the cover letter and/or a dedicated section within the manuscript, specifying the tool used and its purpose (e.g., "ChatGPT was used for grammar checking only"). Full responsibility for the entire content of the manuscript, including any portions developed with AI assistance, rests with the authors. Any failure to disclose use or misuse of Generative AI that violates this policy will result in serious editorial action, including rejection, retraction, and notification to authors' institutions, in accordance with the journal's Publication Ethics policy.
