About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The Malala International Journal of Studies on the Middle East and the Muslim World, is an online scientific, academic and plural publication open to all who have original works, directly about or in dialogue with Islam and the Muslim World.

We invite analyses and debates related to developments in the Middle East in its most broad concept (which can also include North Africa). As for the Muslim world, we also seek a wider compression of the meaning - including not only Muslim majority societies in Asia and Africa, but also its non-Muslim minorities - as well as Muslim minorities in Europe, the Americas, and elsewhere - and their interaction with the West. We also invite contributions on religion itself and/or on theoretical issues that fall within our orbit.

The journal invites contributions from the academic community (professors and young scholars) acting in the fields of International Relations, History, Political Science and Social Sciences, as well as related fields in dialogue with the Arab and Islamic world.

 

Open Access Policy

The full text of all content is freely available and open access without delay. Malala Journal provides immediate open access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.

Malala Journal adopts CC BY-NC-SA Creative Commons License - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. The journal follows the joint statement of recommendations by LATINDEX, REDALYC, CLACSO and IBICT (2018) supporting the use of the CC BY-NC-SA Licence to guarantee the protection of academic and scientific production in open access, restricting the appropriation of research results for commercial purposes.

 

Ethics Policy

Malala Journal is committed to the ethics and quality of its publications. Plagiarism or any other unethical behavior is not accepted.

Malala Journal is guided by the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the publication: authors, reviewers and editors.

This statement is based on Elsevier's recommendations and the Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics - COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines)

Malala Journal uses the SimilarityCheck (iThenticate) tool as a plagiarism detection service

 

Artificial Intelligence Usage Policy (COPE)

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in academic research publications, such as ChatGPT or so-called Large Language Models, is increasing rapidly. Malala Journal follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE) to state that AI tools cannot be indicated as part of the authorship of an article.

Malala follows COPE’s caveat that AI tools cannot fulfill authorship requirements because they cannot take responsibility for the work submitted. They cannot assert or deny potential conflicts of interest, nor can they manage copyright and licensing agreements.

As published in the COPE position statement, authors who use AI tools in the writing of a manuscript, in the production of images or graphic elements of a paper, or in the collection and analysis of data, must be transparent and disclose in the Materials and Methods (or similar section) of the manuscript how the AI ​​tool was used and which tool was used. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their submitted paper, even the parts produced by an AI tool, and are therefore liable for any breach of publishing ethics.

 

Ethical Principles

The decisions of the Editors and Editorial Board will not be influenced by commercial considerations or any source of income.

Malala Journal is committed to intellectual standards and ethical principles and is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when necessary. With respect to ethical complaints about a submitted manuscript or published article, the editors will take the necessary steps to investigate the complaint, as well as its corrections or retraction.

 

Resolution of conflicts of interest and ethical violations

Editors will take the necessary measures to identify and prevent the publication of articles where research misconduct or ethical violations occur, including plagiarism, citation manipulation and falsification/fabrication of data, lack of relevant authorizations, discrimination, among others. Situations and allegations that come to the attention of editors and reviewers will be brought to the attention of the Editorial Committee, which will take the appropriate measures, including referral to higher levels of the University, if necessary.

 

Access and Usage Policies

Malala Journal offers free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.

No fee will be charged at any stage during the process of submitting papers and publishing the journal, nor for reading, downloading, copying, distributing, printing, researching or referencing after publication. 

 

Intellectual property and copyright

Readers and interested parties are free to read, download, print, search, share (copy or distribute the material in any media and format), link to the full text of these articles and to transform or adapt portions of the material as long as it is for non-commercial use and as long as appropriate credit is given to the author and the Journal, indicating how the data was used and/or manipulated.

Authors retain unrestricted copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal for non-commercial purposes.

For the publication of articles, Malala Journal adopts the Creative Commons License. All content of the journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA Attribution — NonCommercial — ShareAlike type.

 

Malala Journal is published with the support of the Support Program for Periodical Scientific Publications of the Universidade de São Paulo, under the Agency for Libraries and Digital Collections (ABCD-USP).

 

Indexers: CAPES Periodicals Portal; Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ; Sumários de Revistas Brasileiras.org; Latindex; The Keepers; Crossref; Title DOI; Fatcat; Wikidata; Road; ZDB.

 

Networks: LatinRev - Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

 

Registered deposit policy directory: Diadorim,

 

Directories and scientific information services: MIGUILIM - Directory of Brazilian electronic scientific journals (Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology - Ibict)