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Vol 4 No 2 (2020): International Journal of Islamic Banking and Finance Research [In Progress]

Editor-in-Chief of the IJIBFR Journal:
Professor Dr. Mbodja Mougoué, Wayne State University, United States of America
General Information of IJIBFR
ISSN: 2576-4136 (Print)
ISSN: 2576-4144 (Online)
Publisher: Centre for Research on Islamic Banking & Finance and Business
Contact Information
CRIBFB USA
Management Office: 8700, Broadway St., Houston, TX-77061, USA
E-mail: info.ijibfr@cribfb.com
Publication and Update
Last day of Every Month

Journal Paper Publication Policy

  • A maximum of thirty-nine (39) papers will be included in every journal issue (effective July 2020).
  • Multiple submission of the same paper on different journal submissions will all be discarded (effective July 2020).
  • The paper title, author, and corresponding author(s) names should be the same as the submitted paper and on the submission system (effective July 2020).
  • Each paper should only have one (1) corresponding author and cannot be changed (effective July 2020).
  • If the plagiarism problem was found, all authors including the corresponded authors cannot submit the paper(s) to our journal for three years.
    The paper will be removed even though it was already published, and this will be noticed on the home page (effective July 2020).
  • If the double submission was found, all authors including the corresponded authors cannot submit a paper(s) to our journal for three years.
    The paper will be removed even though it was published, and this will be noticed on the home page (effective July 2020)).
  • Only paper(s) containing simulation, implementation, case study, or other evidence of research advancement will be published.
    Ideal paper can be published after the editorial board grants permission after reviewing the paper (effective July 2020).
  • Papers from one country cannot exceed 60% in every journal issue; it will be based on the first authors' nationality (effective July 2020).
  • Only one (1) paper from the same author can be included in each issue regardless of role and order (effective July 2020).
  • CRIBFB DOES NOT ALLOW ANY AGENTS FROM ANY COUNTRY to act on our behalf in collecting papers for our journals. CRIBFB has standard procedures in the publication of submitted papers.
Published: 2020-06-27

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Aims & Scope

International Journal of Islamic Banking and Finance Research (IJIBFR) is a refereed international journal that is published semiannually. The journal aims are to publish papers that provide current issues within Islamic finance and banking. The subject areas include, but are not limited to the following fields:

  • Zakat
  • Waqf
  • Sadakah
  • Awqaf
  • Hisbah
  • Bayt At-Mal
  • Islamic Insurance
  • Islamic Banking and Finance Law
  • Theory of Islamic Finance
  • Islamic Financial Instruments
  • Islamic Financial Instruments Development
  • Islamic Banking and Finance Law
  • Performance of Islamic Mutual Funds
  • Fiqh Muamalat in Islamic Banking and Finance
  • Islamic Financial Risk Management
  • Prophet Muhammad (S) On Economic Justice
  • Fiqh Muamalat in Islamic Banking and Finance
  • Operational Risk Management in Islamic Banks
  • Service Quality Measurement in Islamic Banks
  • Accounting for Islamic Banking and Finance
  • Performance and Efficiency of Islamic Banks and Takaful
  • Performance Measurement and Profitability of Islamic Banks
  • Applying AAOIFI Accounting Standards in Islamic Banking Sector
  • Economic Policy and Analysis of Islamic Banking and Finance
  • Islamic Banking techniques and their conformity with the Islamic Law (Shariah)
  • Financing and Lending Practices in the Pre-Islamic and Islamic Periods

International Journal of Islamic Banking and Finance Research currently has an acceptance rate of 15%. The average time between submission and final decision is 20 days and the average time between acceptance and publication is 30 days.

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Author Guidelines

1. Authors must ensure that their papers are free of spelling and grammatical errors and typos.

2. Research papers should not exceed 8,000 words.

3. A separate title page of an article should contain the title of the paper, name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s).

4. The first page of an article should contain an abstract not exceeding 250 words and a maximum of eight keywords.

5. Equations in the text should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals within simple brackets and aligned against the right margin.

6. All appendices should be numbered consecutively using uppercase roman numerals and shown after the list of references.

7. References should be cited within the text as follows: According to Wickremasinghe (2005), foreign exchange market … These results are inconsistent with those of other studies (Perera, 1995; Silva, 2000)

8. List of references should show each citation in alphabetical order and follow the style of APA

9. Author should register with the journal before submitting manuscripts.

10. Page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author. The corrected manuscripts should be submitted, and the publication fee should be paid within 10 working days.

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Paper Selection and Publication Process

1. Upon receipt of paper submission, the Editor sends an E-mail of confirmation to the corresponding author within 1-3 working days. If you fail to receive this confirmation, your submission/e-mail may be missed. Please contact the Editor in time for that.

2. Peer review. We use double-blind system for peer-review; both reviewers and authors’ identities remain anonymous. The paper will be peer-reviewed by three experts; two reviewers from outside and one editor from the journal typically involve in reviewing a submission. The review process may take 2-3 weeks.

3. Notification of the result of review by E-mail.

4. The authors revise paper and pay publication fee.

5. E-journal in PDF is available on the journal’s webpage, free of charge for download. We aim to post articles online within 3 weeks of acceptance.

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Open-access Policy

We follow the Gold Open Access way in journal publishing. This means that authors publish in the journals that provide immediate open access for readers to all articles on the publisher’s website. The readers pay nothing, while authors (or their institutions or funders) pay a publishing fee to maintain the journal operation.

All articles published are open-access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license.

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IJIBFR "COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics" and "Publication Integrity and Ethics" has made application for membership.

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NOTE:

The publisher and journal have a policy of “Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism”. We check the plagiarism issue through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool (https://www.turnitin.com).

All submissions will be checked by turnitin before being sent to reviewers.

Keep a Similarity Index <30% and single source matches are not >6%

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Statistics

2019Q2: Articles Received: 48; Accepted: 5; Rejected: 43; Published: 5; Retracted: 0

2019Q1: Articles Received: 29; Accepted: 5; Rejected: 24; Published: 5; Retracted: 0

2018Q2: Articles Received: 25; Accepted: 4; Rejected: 21; Published: 4; Retracted: 0

2018Q1: Articles Received: 30; Accepted: 6; Rejected: 24; Published: 6; Retracted: 0

2017Q1: Articles Received: 30; Accepted: 5; Rejected: 25; Published: 5; Retracted: 0

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Indexing/Ranking Under Process In:--

  • SCOPUS
  • Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
  • ERA(Excellence in Research for Australia)
  • VHB-JOURQUAL (Category C)
  • ESSEC Rankings of Journals
  • SHERPA/RoMEO
  • IBSS (ProQuest's List)
  • JourQUAL 2.1 (Germany)
  • The Association of Business Schools' (ABS) Academic Journal Guide
  • The Chartered Association of Business Schools' (CABS) Academic Journal Guide
  • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business journal ranking (AACSB) (USA)
  • University of Sydney Business School Journal Rankings List (Australia)
  • Internet Archive
  • Journal Factor
  • International Journal Research Citation Index (IJRCI)
  • Microsoft Academic Example
  • International journal impact factor (IJIF)
  • BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
  • CNKI Scholar
  • IARC Impact Factor
  • ResearcherID
  • EndNote
  • JournalSeek
  • Saif Scholars Impact
  • International Society for Research Activity (ISRA)
  • AcademicKeys
  • Anoox
  • Academic-journal-index
  • Live Journal
  • SJI-Factor
  • International Journal Impact Factor
  • ANVUR journal list (Italy)
  • AIDEA list (Italian Academy of Business Administration)
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  • Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB (Germany)
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  • EconBiz (Germany)
  • BASE (Germany)
  • European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) (Norway)
  • EconLit (American Economic Association, USA)
  • Pubindex (Colombia)
  • List of Journals recommended by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science
  • EconStor (Germany)
  • Dimensions (Altmetric) (UK)
  • Qualis (Brazil)
  • Polish Scholarly Bibliography (PBN)

IJIBFR  is Indexing Under Process  in the digital libraries of the following world’s universities and centers:--      

  • EBSCO
  • ProQuest Pharma Collection (ProQuest)
  • Bielefeld University Library (Germany)
  • German National Library of Science and Technology
  • European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Open Science in Europe
  • Open Science MOOC, Berlin, Germany
  • British Library
  • Federal Science Library (Canada)