Dinamika Penelitian: Media Komunikasi Penelitian Sosial Keagamaan publishes original and rigorous studies on Islam, Muslim societies, socio-religious dynamics, community empowerment, community development, and social transformation.
The journal particularly welcomes empirical, field-based, interdisciplinary, and community-engaged research that examines contemporary social realities within Muslim communities.
Studies from education, communication, public policy, sociology, anthropology, economics, and related fields may be considered when they demonstrate a substantive connection to socio-religious life, Muslim communities, community development, or social transformation.
Manuscripts focusing solely on classroom instruction, instructional media, curriculum, technical economics, business management, or doctrinal issues without a meaningful socio-religious or community dimension are generally outside the journal's scope.
Dinamika Penelitian primarily accepts original research articles. High-quality community-based research, participatory action research, and interdisciplinary studies are particularly encouraged.
Community service or empowerment programs may be considered when they are presented as scholarly research with a clear research problem, appropriate methodology, empirical evidence, analytical discussion, and contribution to knowledge.
Review or conceptual articles may also be considered when they provide a critical, systematic, and original contribution relevant to the journal's scope.
Manuscripts should be written in clear and professional American English and prepared using the official Dinamika Penelitian manuscript template.
Manuscripts should normally contain approximately 5,000–8,000 words. Authors are responsible for ensuring that the manuscript is linguistically readable, consistently formatted, and ready for academic evaluation.
The title should be concise, informative, and clearly reflect the central issue or contribution of the study.
The abstract should contain approximately 180–250 words and briefly present the research problem, objective, method, main findings, and principal contribution.
Authors should provide 3–5 keywords that represent the central concepts, context, population, or analytical focus of the article.
The Introduction should establish the significance of the research problem and explain why the study is necessary.
Authors should critically engage with relevant recent literature, identify a clear research gap, explain the novelty or contribution of the study, and state the research objective or research question.
The literature should be synthesized analytically rather than presented as a sequence of descriptive summaries.
The Method section should provide sufficient information to allow readers and reviewers to assess the credibility and transparency of the research.
Depending on the research design, authors should clearly describe:
research design and context;
participants, informants, cases, documents, or other data sources;
data collection procedures;
data analysis;
validity, reliability, or trustworthiness procedures; and
ethical considerations.
Qualitative studies should explain how themes, categories, or interpretations were developed. Quantitative studies should clearly describe measurements and statistical procedures. Participatory and community-based studies should explain the nature of community involvement and the process through which research evidence was generated.
The Findings section should present the main empirical results clearly and systematically in relation to the research questions or objectives.
Qualitative findings should be supported, where appropriate, by participant quotations, observations, documents, or other empirical evidence. Quantitative findings should report relevant statistical results accurately.
Tables and figures may be used when they improve clarity and should not unnecessarily duplicate information already explained in the text.
The Discussion should interpret the significance of the findings rather than simply repeat them.
Authors should connect the results with previous scholarship, explain areas of similarity or difference, and clarify how the study extends or challenges existing knowledge.
Particular attention should be given to the theoretical, social, religious, community, or policy significance of the findings and to the study's contribution to understanding Muslim societies, socio-religious dynamics, community development, or social transformation.
The Conclusion should directly answer the research objective or research question and highlight the principal contribution of the study.
Where relevant, authors should explain the theoretical, practical, community, or policy implications of the findings. Recommendations should be grounded in the evidence generated by the research rather than expressed as generic suggestions.
The principal limitations of the study should also be stated transparently, particularly when they affect the interpretation, transferability, or generalizability of the findings.
After the Conclusion, authors should include the following statements where applicable:
Acknowledgments
Authors may acknowledge individuals, institutions, communities, research assistants, or other contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship.
Author Contributions
For manuscripts with more than one author, the contribution of each author should be stated clearly.
Funding Statement
All research and publication funding must be disclosed. If no funding was received, authors should state: The authors received no funding from any party for the research and publication of this article.
Declaration of AI Usage
The use of generative artificial intelligence tools must be disclosed transparently. AI tools cannot be listed as authors, and authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of the manuscript.
Conflict of Interest
Authors must disclose any financial, professional, institutional, or personal interests that may influence the research. If none exist, authors should state: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Data Availability Statement
Authors are encouraged to explain whether the data supporting the study are publicly available, available upon reasonable request, or restricted because of ethical or confidentiality considerations.
Dinamika Penelitian uses the APA 7th Edition referencing style.
Manuscripts should normally include at least 25 references, with a strong proportion drawn from peer-reviewed journal articles and recent international scholarship. Seminal older sources may be used when academically necessary.
Authors should ensure that every citation is relevant, accurate, and included in the reference list. DOI links should be provided whenever available.
Reference management software such as Zotero, Mendeley, or EndNote is strongly recommended.
Excessive self-citation, irrelevant citation, fabricated references, and citation manipulation are not permitted.
Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively, clearly titled, referred to in the main text, and placed close to the relevant discussion.
Figures should have sufficient resolution for publication, while tables should remain editable whenever possible.
Dinamika Penelitian welcomes supplementary materials that improve research transparency, including research instruments, interview protocols, coding frameworks, anonymized datasets, corpus descriptions, supplementary tables, and additional figures.
Supplementary material should support rather than replace essential methodological information or findings that belong in the main manuscript.
All manuscripts are initially screened by the editorial team for relevance to the journal's Focus and Scope, originality, scholarly contribution, methodological quality, ethical compliance, language quality, and adherence to the journal template.
Manuscripts that are outside the journal's scope, lack a clear scholarly contribution, have substantial methodological weaknesses, or do not comply with research and publication ethics may be rejected before external peer review.
Submission of a manuscript confirms that the work is original, has not been previously published, is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal, and has been approved by all listed authors.
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