About the Journal

Albuchuts: Journal of Arabic Literary Studies is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Arabic Literature Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), Surakarta, Indonesia. The journal was first published in June 2026 and is issued twice a year, in June and December.

Albuchuts provides an academic forum for research and scholarly discussion on Arabic literature across historical periods, genres, and critical traditions. The journal publishes original research articles and scholarly reviews that contribute to the development of Arabic literary studies through theoretical, historical, comparative, textual, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

The journal accepts manuscripts in English, Arabic, and Indonesian.

Focus and Scope

Albuchuts is devoted to the study of Arabic literature and related literary phenomena across historical periods, genres, media, textual traditions, and critical perspectives.

The journal welcomes research on classical, modern, and contemporary Arabic literature, including poetry, prose, drama, children's literature, young adult literature, digital literature, and other forms of literary expression. Areas of interest include literary theory and criticism, literary history, poetics, narratology, stylistics, reception studies, comparative literature, literary translation, adaptation, intertextuality, authorship, literary production and circulation, and other developments in Arabic literary studies.

The journal also welcomes research in Arabic philology and literary manuscript studies, including textual criticism, manuscript transmission, critical editions, textual variants, codicology, paleography, manuscript circulation, and other manuscript-based approaches that contribute to the understanding of Arabic literature and literary traditions.

Studies of film adaptation, screen adaptation, and intermedial relations between literature, film, theatre, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression are also welcome, provided that the research maintains a clear literary focus and contributes substantively to Arabic literary studies.

Comparative and transnational studies are welcome when Arabic literature constitutes a substantial part of the research object and scholarly contribution.

Albuchuts also welcomes interdisciplinary approaches from linguistics, cultural studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, religious studies, media studies, translation studies, digital humanities, ecocriticism, and related fields, provided that these approaches are used to investigate literary texts, literary practices, or literary phenomena and that the study makes a substantive contribution to Arabic literary studies.

The use of literary works merely as sources of linguistic, cultural, historical, religious, or social data does not by itself place a manuscript within the journal's scope. Likewise, the use of Arabic manuscripts as research objects does not automatically place a study within the journal's scope when its primary contribution is unrelated to literature or literary traditions.

Manuscripts should demonstrate a clear contribution to the understanding of literary form, meaning, aesthetics, narrative, style, genre, representation, reception, textual transmission, adaptation, literary history, or other dimensions of literary study.

The journal does not normally consider manuscripts devoted exclusively to general linguistics, Arabic language teaching, language acquisition, non-literary translation, general cultural studies, film studies without a substantive connection to literature, politics, international relations, religious studies, social sciences, or manuscript studies unrelated to Arabic literary traditions, unless they substantially engage with literary texts or literary phenomena and contribute directly to Arabic literary studies.

Publication Frequency

Albuchuts is published twice a year, in:

June
December

The journal is committed to maintaining a regular and consistent publication schedule.

Languages of Publication

Albuchuts accepts manuscripts written in:

English
Arabic
Indonesian

Authors are expected to use clear and appropriate academic language and to follow the journal's author guidelines. Titles, abstracts, keywords, and other bibliographic metadata must be prepared in accordance with the journal's technical and editorial requirements.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to Albuchuts undergo an initial editorial screening to assess their relevance to the journal's scope, scholarly quality, originality, and compliance with submission requirements.

Manuscripts that pass the initial screening are evaluated through a double-blind peer-review process, in which the identities of authors and reviewers are concealed from each other.

Each manuscript is reviewed by at least two independent reviewers with expertise relevant to the subject of the submission. Reviewers assess the manuscript's originality, scholarly contribution, theoretical and methodological soundness, clarity of argument, use of relevant sources, and overall quality.

Editorial decisions are made by the editors after careful consideration of the reviewers' comments and recommendations. A manuscript may be accepted, returned for revision, or rejected.

Open Access Policy

Albuchuts provides immediate open access to all published content.

Readers may access published articles without subscription or registration fees. The journal supports open access as a means of broadening the circulation of scholarly knowledge and facilitating academic exchange.

Publication Fees

Albuchuts does not charge authors any submission fee, article processing charge, or publication fee.

The journal is financially supported by the Arabic Literature Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret.

The absence of publication fees does not affect the editorial or peer-review process. Editorial decisions are based solely on scholarly quality, relevance to the journal's scope, and compliance with editorial and ethical standards.

Originality and Similarity Screening

Authors are required to submit original manuscripts that have not been published elsewhere and are not simultaneously under consideration by another journal.

Submitted manuscripts are screened using similarity-detection software. The journal applies the following thresholds:

overall similarity must not exceed 20%;
similarity from any single source must not exceed 2%.

Similarity percentages are not used as the sole basis for editorial decisions. Editors may also consider the type, location, and context of the detected similarities.

Manuscripts containing plagiarism, inappropriate duplication, or other forms of academic misconduct may be rejected or handled in accordance with the journal's publication ethics policy.

Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies

Albuchuts permits the responsible use of generative artificial intelligence and AI-assisted technologies for limited supporting purposes in manuscript preparation.

Such tools may be used for activities including language refinement, grammar and spelling correction, proofreading, translation support, and improvements to readability and organization.

Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, argumentation, interpretation, citations, references, and final content of their manuscripts.

Generative AI systems may not be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot assume responsibility for the scholarly content of a publication.

Any substantive use of generative AI in manuscript preparation must be disclosed transparently. AI-generated material must not replace the author's own scholarly analysis, interpretation, critical judgment, or intellectual contribution.

Authors are responsible for verifying all information produced with the assistance of AI tools, including factual statements, quotations, citations, references, and bibliographic information.

Reviewers and editors must maintain the confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts. Manuscripts, review reports, personal data, or confidential editorial materials should not be uploaded to external generative AI systems when such use may compromise confidentiality, intellectual property, or data protection.

Further provisions are available in the journal's Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies Policy.

Publication Ethics and Editorial Integrity

Albuchuts is committed to maintaining scholarly integrity throughout the publication process.

Authors are responsible for the originality and accuracy of their work, proper citation of sources, appropriate acknowledgement of contributions, disclosure of competing interests, and compliance with relevant research ethics.

Reviewers are expected to provide objective, constructive, timely, and confidential assessments of manuscripts.

Editors are responsible for managing manuscripts fairly, protecting the integrity of the peer-review process, and making editorial decisions on the basis of scholarly quality, relevance to the journal's scope, and compliance with editorial policies.

The journal does not tolerate plagiarism, fabrication or falsification of data, duplicate publication, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, peer-review manipulation, or other forms of publication misconduct.

Detailed provisions are available in the journal's Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement and related editorial policies.

Copyright and Licensing

Articles published in Albuchuts are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Under this license, published material may be shared and adapted for non-commercial purposes, provided that appropriate credit is given and derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Authors retain copyright in their work while granting Albuchuts the right of first publication.

DOI and Digital Identification

Articles published in Albuchuts are assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to support persistent identification and reliable citation.

The journal uses the DOI prefix:

10.20961

Bibliographic metadata are managed through the journal's online publishing system and maintained to support discoverability, citation, and scholarly communication.

Journal History and Development

Albuchuts was first published in June 2026 as a scholarly journal managed by the Arabic Literature Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret.

The journal was subsequently repositioned as Albuchuts: Journal of Arabic Literary Studies to establish a clearer and more focused scholarly identity in the field of Arabic literature.

Albuchuts continues to strengthen its editorial governance, peer-review procedures, publication standards, research integrity, digital infrastructure, metadata quality, and scholarly visibility.

The journal is being developed toward national journal accreditation and broader inclusion in trusted and reputable indexing services through continuous improvement in editorial quality, publication consistency, peer review, metadata management, international accessibility, and compliance with recognized standards of scholarly publishing.

Publisher and Institutional Support

Albuchuts is published and financially supported by:

Arabic Literature Department
Faculty of Cultural Sciences
Universitas Sebelas Maret
Surakarta, Indonesia

The publisher supports the journal's editorial and publication activities while maintaining scholarly evaluation and editorial independence as the basis for manuscript selection and publication decisions.