Journal of Socio-Cultural Studies of Khorasan

Process of article submission

The processes for reviewing, submitting and publishing articles in the Scientific Quarterly of Cultural-Social Studies of Khorasan are as follows:

The process of reviewing articles is very important for all scientific publications in the world to protect and improve the validity of scientific efforts. The review process of Quarterly of Social-Cultural Studies of Khorasan includes equal and double-anonymous review, i.e. the authors and reviewers have no knowledge of each other's identity.

1. Announcing the editor's opinion (if the file is complete, the article will be submitted to the editor to determine the level and degree of compatibility with the subjects, the editorial board members, the reviewer, and finally, the review process).

• If the editor's opinion is positive about the mentioned items, the article will be entered the next stage (submitted to the editorial board members).
• If the opinion is negative, the article will be submitted to determine the level and possibly issue a rejection letter.

2. Controlling the article in terms of observing the items mentioned in the style sheet and format of the publication (if there are errors in the files and the format of the publication is not observed, the article will be returned to the author to complete the items).
3. Submitting to the reviewer (if the files are complete and the format of the publication is fully observed, the article will be submitted to 2 or 3 reviewers at the same time).
4. Receiving the results of the review and sending them to the authors to make corrections;

• If the result of 2 reviewers is positive, the possibility of editing will be created for the author to make the corrections desired by the reviewers.
• If the result of 1 reviewer is positive and the result of 1 reviewer is negative, it will be submitted to the third reviewer.
• If the result of 2 reviewer is negative, the article will be presented in the editorial meeting to determine the level. If the reviewers' comments are approved by the editorial staff, a rejection letter will be issued.

5. Receiving corrections and sending the article to the final reviewer (if the files are complete and the items mentioned in the editing letter are observed, the article will be sent to one of the previous reviewer to control the final corrections).
6. Receiving the opinions of the final referee and presenting the article in the editorial meeting to announce the final opinion;

• If the author's corrections are fully approved by the final reviewer, the article will be submitted to the editorial board for acceptance.
• If some corrections are not approved by the final reviewer, the article will be returned to the author. It should be noted that this stage is repeated only once. After the author's corrections, the article is again submitted to the final reviewer for control. If the corrections made at this stage are still not approved by the final reviewer, the article will be presented in the editorial meeting to determine the level and issue non-acceptance.

7. Placement of accepted articles in the list of articles ready for publication;
8. Publication of the article (all articles, after edition and page layout and before publication, are submitted to the corresponding author, so that if there are things that need to be controlled and changed, they can be done, and finally, the author's approval for publication is obtained).

 

*Note:

• All correspondence is done with the corresponding author and only brief stages are communicated to other authors.
• All matters related to the stages and results of the review, the time of editing, acceptance and printing of the article is followed-up only by the corresponding author of the article, and the author is responsible for the correctness of the content contained in the article and the list of references.
• The office is exempted from responding to other co-authors of the article.
• The authors are required to download the commitment letter form and after completing it, sign, scan and send it along with the original file of the article.
• Rejection of articles at the first stage by the editor or at the review stage is not responded by the office to the authors. The office is excused from responding to the authors.
• The editorial board of the quarterly is free to edit the article (without changing the content).
• Submitted articles will not be returned.
• The corresponding author of the articles extracted, the supervisor's name should be mentioned.
• If the authors have an article under review in the quarterly, the next article should not be submitted before determining the level of the article.

• If the author(s) are not affiliated with a particular organization, his/her academic degree should be included.