Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

We are committed to being an academic platform that fosters the exchange of ideas, innovation, and the development of knowledge in the social and humanities. We cover a wide range of disciplines, including Public Administration, Management, Politics, Sociology, Communication, and more.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

All submitted manuscripts are read by the editorial staff. Those manuscripts evaluated by editors to be inappropriate to journal criteria are rejected promptly without external review. Manuscripts evaluated to be of potential interest to our readership are sent to single-blind review. The editors then make a decision based on the reviewer’s recommendation from among several possibilities: rejected, require major revision, need minor revision, or accepted

 

Publication Frequency

JIPSH is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October.

 

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.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...