ETHICS STATEMENT

Ethical Framework and COPE Compliance

SUKUK: International Journal of Banking, Finance, Management and Business strictly mandates that all participating stakeholders—including authors, the Editor-in-Chief, members of the international editorial board, peer reviewers, and the publisher (SUKUK Journal)—adhere to rigorous international ethical standards. In direct alignment with Clarivate’s Web of Science Core Collection quality criteria for editorial triage and evaluation, the journal’s ethical governance framework is modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. SUKUK is available in online and very respects the publication ethic and evades any kind of plagiarism based on Turnitin report. This framework establishes transparent expectations across all stages of the publishing lifecycle, ensuring that editorial decisions remain entirely objective, fair, and grounded in scholarly merit.

To operationalise these standards, the journal maintains strict protocols regarding confidentiality, individual privacy, and research integrity. All submitted manuscripts are treated as confidential documents, protecting proprietary research data and author intellectual property prior to formal publication. The publisher and editorial board actively enforce policies that safeguard research participants and ensure compliance with ethical guidelines in data collection, while maintaining clear, verifiable governance procedures that reflect international publishing best practices.

 Conflict of Interest Policy

In accordance with international publishing standards requirements, SUKUK Journal enforces an explicit and comprehensive Conflict of Interest policy across all manuscript workflows. Authors are required to declare any potential, perceived, or actual competing interests upon initial submission. This includes disclosing all sources of financial support, commercial affiliations, research grants, consultancies, or personal relationships that could influence the study's design, data interpretation, or conclusions. If no competing interests exist, authors must explicitly include a formal declaration stating that no conflict of interest exists regarding the research or its publication.

This requirement extends equally to peer reviewers and members of the editorial team to guarantee complete evaluation objectivity. Peer reviewers are obligated to decline evaluation requests immediately if a competing financial, collaborative, or institutional interest with any of the authors or funding organizations is identified. Furthermore, the Editor-in-Chief and editorial board members are recused from managing, reviewing, or making publication decisions on submissions where personal or professional conflicts exist. This multi-layered disclosure framework ensures that manuscript acceptance is governed exclusively by research quality, methodology, and scientific validity.

Copyright, Licensing, and Author Rights

To support global knowledge exchange and align with open-access standards evaluated during the Web of Science review process, SUKUK Journal operates under an author-centric copyright framework. Authors publishing in the journal retains full copyright of their original work while granting SUKUK Journal the right of first publication. All published articles are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), allowing researchers, institutions, and the general public to freely read, download, share, adapt, and build upon the work, provided proper credit and original publication attribution are given.

Additionally, the journal establishes clear self-archiving policies that empower authors to maximize the reach and impact of their scholarship. Authors are permitted and actively encouraged to deposit pre-print, post-print, or final published PDF versions of their work in institutional repositories, domain-specific archives, or personal academic websites both prior to and following publication. This policy promotes transparent scientific communication, accelerates academic discussion across Islamic banking, finance, and management disciplines, and ensures full alignment with global open-access standards.

Electronic Backup and Preservation
All of articles published in SUKUK journal has been preserved securely by The LOCKSS Program and library of SUKUK: International Journal of Banking, Finance, Management and Business. Authors or readers at any time can request the electronic or printed version of published article by email: [email protected] 

Ownership and Management of Journal
SUKUK: International Journal of Banking, Finance, Management and Business is managed by SUKUK Journal as a fully funded, non-profit academic initiative. Consequently, the journal operates under a non-fee policy for all submissions and publications.

Publication Frequency: SUKUK: International Journal of Banking, Finance, Maganement and Business has been published three times a year (January, May and September). Each issue number (issue) amounts to a minimum of five (5) titles.

Geographical Diversity: SUKUK: International Journal of Banking, Finance, Maganement and Business has confirmed the geographical diversity of the journal. Editors and editorial boards have been selected from five continents, including Asia, Europe, America, Australia, and Africa. Most of editors and editorial boards have expertise in their field and having Scopus ID that indicating their affiliations as well as email address appeared in the journal. The authors have also come from various countries in the world who submitting their article based on aims and scope of the journal