- Focus and Scope
- Section Policies
- Peer Review Process
- Publication Frequency
- Open Access Policy
- Archiving
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
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...