Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

IJHSS is an international peer-reviewed journal that accepts research articles, review papers and case studies in the fields of humanities and social sciences. The core objective of IJHSS is to publish new knowledge and theories from academics, researchers, professionals and practitioners for the benefit of society. It also provides a venue for scholars to submit on-going research and developments in these above mentioned areas. IJHSS invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that covers the latest outstanding developments in the fields of social science and humanities. A list of topics is provided below for reference but this is not intended to be exhaustive. List of acceptable topics: humanities, social sciences, digital humanities, human rights, education, linguistic studies, etc.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

IJHSS follows a double blind-review policy.

An editor will do a preliminary reading to assess the merits of the paper before forwarding it to the reviewers. Each article is reviewed by at least two reviewers.

Reviewers are requested to submit their reviews within four weeks. A reminder is sent to them after 3 weeks to remind them to submit the review.

Review Guidelines:

The International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences values the role of reviewers in the peer-review process that enables us to publish high-quality materials in a timely way.

Reviewers are expected to accept for review only articles in which they have sufficient expertise. Any conflict of interest must be reported to the Chief Editor.

Reviewers should submit their reviews using the online form provided on the portal. They are expected to provide a clear recommendation and justifications for their recommendation for either acceptance or rejection of an article.

Reviewers should appreciate that they are a privileged group of persons who are having first-hand access to unpublished work and they should therefore maintain the confidentiality of all such works to which they are given access.

Reviewers must analyse the methodology and results and discuss whether these could be repeated.

Reviewers must identify gaps that could or should be addressed in order to provide better understanding of the results.

Reviewers should provide comments on how the article can be enhanced in terms of focus, style and length.

Reviewers must check whether the references are relevant, recent and in the proper format.

Reviewers must comment on the overall originality of the work and its contribution to the field.

Reviewers will be expected to re-review articles which are submitted again after substantial improvements.

 

Publication Frequency

As from 2021, IJHSS will publish 2 issues annually.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

All articles published by IJHSS are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

Full details about the license is available at:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

 

Archiving

This journal maintains its own backup copies of published articles on different servers.

 

Indexing

IJHSS is indexed by WorldCat and Google Scholar.