Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The journal includes, but is not limited to the following fields:

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology
  • Communication
  • Economics
  • Business
  • Management
  • Laws
  • Education
  • Linguistics
  • History
  • Arts and Culture
  • Media Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Population Studies
  • Psychology
  • Public Administration

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The journal adopts double-blind peer review (also called anonymous peer review), That is, on one hand, the reviewers do not know the author's identity, on the other hand, the authors do not know who accept to review their manuscripts. After accepting the review task, the external reviewers should return the review result in two weeks.

 

Publication Frequency

2024 Quarterly, published in March, June, September and December

2023 Quarterly, published in March, June, September and December

2022 Quarterly, published in March, June, September and December

2021 Quarterly, published in March, June, September and December

2020 Semiannual, published in June and December

 

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...

 

Index/List/Archive

  • Academic Journal Articles
  • Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
  • CiteFactor
  • CNKI Scholar
  • CrossRef
  • Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI)
  • DOI
  • Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
  • Globethics.net
  • Journalseek
  • JournalTOCs
  • OCLC- WorldCat
  • Open J-Gate
  • Publons
  • Refseek Academic Search Engine
  • ResearchBib
  • Scientific Indexing Service (SIS)
  • The Scientific Literature Database (Scilit)
  • Standard Periodical Directory
  • WZB Library

 

Anti-plagiarism

The editor will check the similarity rate of each submission by iThenticate.