About the Journal

About the Journal

The name QAULAN SADIDA is inspired by Qur'anic guidance on truthful, honest, and appropriate speech, including Qur'an 33:70 and 4:9. The journal encourages rigorous scholarship that combines communication and international-affairs research with verification, ethical responsibility, and relevant Islamic intellectual perspectives.

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَقُولُوا قَوْلًا سَدِيدًا

“O believers, be mindful of Allah and speak words of truth.” (Qur’an 33:70)

Focus and Scope

QAULAN SADIDA welcomes manuscripts in the following areas:

• Communication and public relations.
• Islamic communication and da‘wah.
• Rhetoric (khiṭābah) and journalism (kitābah).
• Mass media, social media, and digital communication.
• Public relations, branding, and crisis communication.
• Organizational communication and communication in Islamic educational institutions.
• International relations and diplomacy in the Muslim world.
• International organizations and cooperation among Muslim-majority states.
• Globalization and transnational civil society.
• Public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, and educational diplomacy.

The journal does not publish practical political campaign materials or group propaganda. Da‘wah studies centered primarily on scriptural evidence and Islamic thought should be directed to TA'SHIL.

Types of Manuscripts

• Research articles: field research, content analysis, discourse analysis, semiotics, case studies, or surveys.
• Conceptual articles: development of communication or international-affairs concepts in an Islamic perspective.
• Policy studies: analysis of foreign policy or public-communication policy.
• Book reviews: critical reviews of books published within the last three years, 1,500–2,500 words.

Publication Frequency

QAULAN SADIDA is published three times a year, in April, August, and December.

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 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, article structure, research design, ethical treatment of data and informants, technical format, source verification, and similarity. Manuscripts may be returned before external review if they are outside scope, incomplete, technically unsuitable, ethically problematic, 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. Reviewers assess originality, theoretical contribution, methodological rigor, verification of evidence, ethical handling of media or interview data, relevance to communication, media, public relations, or international affairs, 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

QAULAN SADIDA provides immediate open access to published content to support wider dissemination of scholarship in communication, media, public relations, and international affairs. 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

QAULAN SADIDA follows recognized scholarly publishing ethics consistent with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabrication of data or quotations, manipulation of screenshots, privacy violations involving media users or informants, inappropriate authorship, or citation manipulation. Manuscripts derived from theses or dissertations are permitted when rewritten as journal articles and transparently acknowledged.

Manuscripts must not promote hate speech, insults based on ethnicity, religion, race, or social group, or calls to hostility. Harmful material quoted as research data must be censored as necessary and clearly identified as research material.

Plagiarism and Similarity Policy

All submitted manuscripts are subject to similarity screening. Similarity must not exceed 20%. Editors may reject manuscripts for inappropriate paraphrasing, self-plagiarism, unattributed reuse, duplicate publication, fabricated references, or other misuse of sources even when the numerical score is within the threshold.

Article Submission Charges

QAULAN SADIDA 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 75,000–100,000 is payable only after a manuscript has been formally accepted for publication. The exact amount within this range is set by the editorial board upon acceptance. 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 QAULAN SADIDA 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

QAULAN SADIDA is committed to the long-term preservation and accessibility of its published content.

Research Data, Media Ethics, and Generative AI Policy

Verification and tabayyun. Consistent with the journal’s name and Qur’an 49:6, factual claims should be verified against primary sources. Online news may be used as data or illustration but should not serve as the sole evidence for important claims.

Social-media and digital data

• Identify the platform, account, posting date, access date, and URL for each analyzed item.
• Archive easily deleted content where appropriate, for example through the Wayback Machine, and provide the archive link.
• Public institutional and public-figure accounts may be named. Private accounts of ordinary users should be anonymized, and quotations should be paraphrased where necessary to reduce traceability.
• Screenshots must obscure names, profile photographs, and personal data of ordinary users.
• Scraping procedures must report the tool, time range, keywords, and number of collected items.

Interviews and international documents

• State the informant’s position, interview date, and interview medium.
• Officials or diplomats requesting anonymity should be described by a general role, for example “Ministry of Foreign Affairs official.”
• Off-the-record statements must not be quoted.
• Informant consent and permission to record should be reported in the Method section.
• International and policy documents should be cited using official document numbers, dates, and official links, such as UN General Assembly resolutions or OIC declarations.

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 fabricate data, informant quotations, official statements, social-media content, or references.
• If AI is used to assist large-scale content coding, authors must explain the tool, procedure, and validation by human coders.
• 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 data or quotations, duplicate publication, manipulated screenshots, serious privacy violations, authorship misconduct, citation manipulation, or findings shown to be unreliable.