About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The electronic Journal Malala is a scientific, scholarly, and plural on-line periodical publication open to all who have original works, directly on or in dialogue with Islam and the Muslim World.

Open Access Policy

The full text of all content is available for free and Open Access without delay. Malala offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge. Malala adopts the Creative Commons Licence attribution type CC BY-NC

Ethics Policy

Revista Malala is committed to the ethics and quality of its publications, plagiarism or any other unethical behavior is not accepted.

Malala has as precept the ethical behavior of all parties involved in the publication: authors, reviewers, and editors.

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

Malala uses the SimilarityCheck tool (iThenticate) for plagiarism detection.

Policy on the use of Artificial Intelligence (COPE)

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

Malala follows COPE's orientations in that AI tools cannot fulfill authorship requirements, as they are not able to take responsibility for the work submitted. Nor can they affirm or deny potential conflicts of interest or manage copyright and licensing agreements.

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

Ethical Principles

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

Malala is committed to intellectual standards and ethical principles and is willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and excuses when necessary. Regarding ethical complaints about a submitted manuscript or published article, the editors will take the necessary measures to verify the complaint, as well as its corrections or retraction.

Resolution of conflicts of interest and ethical violations
Editors will take the necessary steps to identify and prevent the publication of articles at the event of research misconduct or ethical violations, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, absence of relevant authorizations, discrimination, among others. The situations and allegations that come to the attention of editors and reviewers will be taken to the Editorial Committee, which will take appropriate measures, including its referral to the University's higher levels, if necessary.

Access and Use Policies

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

No fee will be charged, at any stage, during the process of submission of papers and publication of the journal, nor for reading, downloading, copying, distribution, printing, research, or reference after its publication.

Intellectual property and copyrights

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

The authors are allowed to hold the copyright without restrictions and grant the journal the right to first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows the sharing of the work with recognition of authorship and initial publication in this magazine for non-commercial purposes.

To publish the papers, Malala adopts the Creative Commons Licence. All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons License of the type attribution CC BY-NC Attribution — NonCommercial.

 

Malala is a Journal published with the support of Programa de Apoio às Publicações Científicas Periódicas da Universidade de São Paulo, under Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (ABCD-USP).

Indexing: Portal de Periódicos da CAPES; Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ; Sumários de Revistas Brasileiras.org; Latindex; 

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

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