About the Journal

About the Journal

The name AL-WIQAYAH conveys the idea of protection and prevention, reflecting the journal's commitment to evidence-based health promotion, disease prevention, clinical responsibility, and ethical healthcare.

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا قُوا أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَأَهْلِيكُمْ نَارًا

(Qur'an 66:6)

Focus and Scope

AL-WIQAYAH welcomes manuscripts in the following areas:

• Public health, epidemiology, and health promotion.
• Maternal and child health, nutrition, and reproductive health.
• Mental health, neurology, and geriatric health.
• Clinical medicine, nursing, midwifery, and biomedical sciences.
• Pharmacy, halal health products, and evidence-based treatment.
• Islamic medical ethics and bioethics.
• Health practices in Muslim communities, including pesantren health and Hajj-related health.

Manuscripts on psychological well-being without a primary clinical or health-science outcome may be redirected to MUTMAINNAH.

Types of Manuscripts

Publication Frequency

AL-WIQAYAH is published four times a year, in January, May, July, and November.

Editor in Chief

Erwik Handayani, S.Pd., BA.

Publisher

Santri Cendekiawan Academic Press
Managed through Cendekia Journal Hub (CJH)

Editorial Policies

Section Policies

All submissions must fall within the journal's focus and scope and comply with the Author Guidelines, reporting standards, and article template. Manuscripts must be original, academically accountable, not previously published, and not under consideration by another journal.

The editorial team conducts an initial screening for scope, structure, health-research ethics, reporting completeness, technical format, and similarity. Manuscripts may be returned before external review if they are outside scope, incomplete, ethically unsuitable, technically deficient, or clearly below the journal's minimum scholarly standard.

Peer Review Process

Manuscripts that pass editorial screening are sent to at least two reviewers with relevant expertise for peer review. A statistical reviewer may be involved where needed. Reviewers assess originality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, clinical or public-health relevance, validity of analysis, and suitability for publication.

Editorial decisions may be: accepted, minor revision, major revision, or rejected. Revised manuscripts are normally expected within two weeks unless another deadline is stated by the editor.

Open Access Policy

AL-WIQAYAH provides immediate open access to its published content to support broad access to health-science knowledge. Readers may access published articles without subscription charges.

Reuse of published content is governed by the journal's Creative Commons license and requires proper attribution and compliance with the applicable license terms.

Publication Ethics

AL-WIQAYAH follows recognized scholarly publishing ethics consistent with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication or falsification of data, manipulation of images or laboratory findings, breaches of patient confidentiality, inappropriate authorship, or citation manipulation.

Plagiarism and Similarity Policy

All submitted manuscripts are subject to similarity screening. The maximum working similarity threshold is 20%. Editors may reject a manuscript for inappropriate reuse, unattributed paraphrasing, duplicate publication, fabricated references, or other misuse of sources even when the numerical score is below this threshold.

Article Submission Charges

AL-WIQAYAH does not charge an article submission fee or peer-review fee. Article submission charge: IDR 0.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

An Article Processing Charge (APC) of IDR 100,000 is payable only after a manuscript has been formally accepted for publication. No payment guarantees acceptance. Editorial and peer-review decisions are independent of payment.

Copyright and Licensing

Authors retain copyright in their published articles and grant AL-WIQAYAH the right of first publication. Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Digital Archiving

AL-WIQAYAH is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of its published content.

Health Research Ethics

• Research involving humans, medical records, biological samples, or animals must have appropriate ethics approval from an accredited research ethics committee where required.
• The ethics approval number should be reported in the Methods section and the approval letter uploaded as a supplementary file.
• Research involving human participants should comply with the Declaration of Helsinki and relevant amendments.
• All participants must provide informed consent. Participants under 18 require parent or guardian consent and, where appropriate, child assent.
• Names, medical-record numbers, and identifiable patient photographs must not be published without appropriate authorization.
• Randomized clinical trials are encouraged to be registered in a recognized clinical-trial registry and to report the registration number.

Reporting Guidelines

Authors must follow the appropriate reporting guideline for the study design and upload the completed checklist as a supplementary file where applicable. Relevant standards include CONSORT, STROBE, PRISMA, CARE, COREQ, and STARD, following EQUATOR Network guidance.

Research Data and Generative AI Policy

Research data. Authors are encouraged to provide anonymized research data in an appropriate repository or explain why data cannot be shared. Editors or reviewers may request relevant data for verification.

Generative AI

• AI may assist with language or translation under meaningful human supervision.
• AI cannot be listed as an author.
• AI must not be used to create research data, laboratory results, clinical images, statistical analyses, or bibliographic references.
• Patient or other confidential health data must never be entered into external AI services.
• Material AI use must be disclosed in the Author Statement, including the tool, version where relevant, and the part assisted.

Corrections, Retractions, and Editorial Notices

Significant errors identified after publication may be addressed through a correction, clarification, expression of concern, or retraction. Retraction may be considered for plagiarism, fabricated or falsified data, image manipulation, duplicate publication, serious authorship misconduct, major ethical violations, unreliable findings, or breaches of patient confidentiality.