Open Access

JARSSH provides open access to its content to make research freely available to readers' supports the global exchange of knowledge and idea. Authors of published articles retain the copyright and grant others the right to use, reproduce, adapt and share their articles according to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

 

Article Processing Charges (APC)

All articles published in our journals are open-access and freely accessible online instantly upon publishing. This is made possible by an article-processing charge (APC) which covers the variety of publishing services that we offer. The APC for JARSSH is USD 100, payable when your article is approved editorially and before publication, is paid either to you or to your funder, organization or employer.

 

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

This statement clarifies ethical behavior of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, including the authors, the editors, the peer-reviewers and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

JARSSH makes sure to follow the best standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against publication malpractices.

At all stages of publication, the ethical responsibilities are seriously identified and undertaken. Generally, the publication ethics include activities such as constantly improving the quality and integrity of the journal, striving to meet the needs of authors and readers, encouraging academic debate, and others. Along with, some specific ethical responsibilities are assigned to editors, authors, and reviewers, as listed below:

Duties of Editors

Fairness in making publication decision
Editor holds a pivotal position in making the publication decision; this decision is solely based on the novelty and importance, of the submitted work, to researchers and readers. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Confidentiality
Editors and support staff are bound to keep the information regarding submitted manuscript confidential. No person other than corresponding author, reviewer, potential reviewer, editorial advisor and the publisher must be able to access the content of the submitted manuscript. The confidentiality of the work which is under review must be ensured.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
To use or reproduce the unpublished material for own research purposes, prior written consent of authors must be obtained. Editors will not be allowed to use any ideas or information obtained by handling these manuscripts for their own research purpose. If the editor has any conflict of interest (relational, competitive or any other relationship/connection with the organization, institution or author connected with submitted work) with any submitted material, then he/she will excuse her/himself from performing the editorial duties and instead ask a co-editor, associate editor or any other member to perform the duties. Moreover, editors must ensure that all the submitted work clearly mentions the conflict of interest statement.

Peer Review
The editors ensure that all submitted manuscripts being considered for publication undergo peer-review by at least two reviewers who are expert in the field. The manuscript may be rejected at initial phase by the editor provided that the content of manuscript is not novel, lacks originality and/or does not fall under the scope of the journal. The manuscripts suitable for review are then subject to double blind peer-review. Based on the review from two experts’ decision regarding acceptance, acceptance with minor revisions, acceptance with major revisions, o rejection is made by the Editor-in-Chief.

Dealing with unethical practices
The unethical practices can be identified and brought into consideration of the editor and publisher at any time and by any one. The unethical practice will be strictly checked and affirmative actions will be taken to resolve the issue. All the allegations and information provided against the malpractice must be treated seriously and decision is made based on all the provided evidence. However, the authors should be given the opportunity to defend themselves against the allegations.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to editorial decisions
The editors may contribute in editorial decision by providing a genuine feedback on the originality, relevance and importance of the content of submitted work. Reviewers also suggest modifications with an aim of improving their research.

Promptness
The research papers for review are assigned to reviewers based on their expertise and area of interest. However, if the reviewer feels unqualified for reviewing a certain manuscript or that a prompt review would not be possible, then the editor must be notified while excusing himself from the review process.

ConfidentialityStandards of objectivity
Any manuscript submitted for review must be kept confidential and the ideas and information presented in the manuscript must not be shared with anyone, except with Editor-in-Chief or any other entity authorized by editor (if necessary).

Standards of objectivity
The review of the manuscript must be impartial and free from any biases. The review comments must be given with an aim to further the research study and improve the manuscript; personal criticism is not allowed.

Acknowledgement of sources
The reviewer should review the submitted manuscript thoroughly and identify and highlight any misinterpretation of the published work. Also, if any published work has not been cited by the authors then it must be highlighted suitably. All the information in manuscript derived from any published sources must be cited properly.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
If the reviewer possesses a conflicts of interest with any of the authors, companies or institutions connected to the manuscript and the work described therein should immediately notify the editors to declare their conflicts of interest and decline the invitation to review so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.

Duties of Authors

Reporting standards
All the work performed by authors must be original and reported correctly. An accurate account of the activities performed, results obtained and conclusions drawn must be provided. Both qualitative and quantitative studies must be objective, comprehensive and offer ample additions to existing body of knowledge. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Authorship of the paper
The authorship of the submitted material should be restricted to those who have made a noteworthy input to the idea, design, execution, or interpretation of the research work. Those who supported the execution of the study must be acknowledged in the acknowledgement section. The corresponding author must ensure that all the co-authors are listed appropriately and the final submitted manuscript is approved by all the authors.

Data access and retention
To ensue transparency, authors might be requested to give access to the raw data of their study together with the manuscript for editorial review and if practicable they might be asked to make the data publicly available. In any case, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals. However, authors will retain the copyrights and ownership of the data and it will not be used without their consent.

Originality and plagiarism
The journal accepts and published only original works, hence, authors should ensure that the submitted work is original and if information or data from any other source is reproduces or replicated then it is properly cited. Also, make sure that the submitted material is plagiarism free as plagiarism constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Multiple, duplicate, redundant or concurrent submission/publication
The authors must ensure that the submitted manuscript is not submitted elsewhere for processing. Also, the submitted material must not be a mere replication of an existing study as papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal or primary publication. However, in some cases the secondary publication is acceptable such as translations, however, the primary source must be cited in the secondary publication.

Conflict of interest statement
A conflict of interest statement must be provided, clearly mentioning the conflicts, if any.

 

Authorship

The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring attribution of authorship for all submitted and published work. All the submitted and published material, including research articles, review articles, or art pieces' must contain authors and all the co-authors who made a substantial contribution in the study.
The following must be ensured:

Appropriate attribution and acknowledgment

The corresponding author should ensure that

• The submitted work is original, and all the authors approve the final draft before submission.
• All the authors are aware of the submission to the journal and permit the publication of the manuscript.
• Those individuals who made a substantial contribution to the study and aided in the inception of the idea, execution, and drafting of the study are listed as co-authors.
• The acknowledgment section sufficiently acknowledges the support and efforts of individuals and institutions who aided in conducting the research work.
• That the conflict of interest (if any) is declared and the statement of conflict of interest is provided at the time of submission.

Changes in authorship

In case of changes in authorship, the request can be sent to Editor-in-Chief. The case will be then forwarded to the editorial board, which will decide whether to accept or reject the request for a change in authorship. The acceptance of the requested changes depends on the reasons, arguments, and information provided by the authors; also, all the co-authors must agree with the requested changes in authorship. If the changes are made post-publication, then a public notice will be issued.

 

Peer Review Process

Editorial staff read all the submissions for desk review. The documents that don't comply with the basic criteria are returned without external review. At the same time, the manuscript with potential interest is processed for double-blind review. Final decision is made by the editor based on the reviewer's suggestions. The final decision has some possibilities; Accepted, need major revisions, require minor revisions, few editorial revisions, or rejected.

The review process usually takes three to four months after submission; delays in obtaining reviews may prolong this process. However, we still ensure to reduce the time period and get reviews as early as possible. Manuscripts are sent out for review electronically, and all correspondence takes place via e-mail.

The Editor in Chief of JARSSH possesses the right to decide which manuscripts submitted to the journal should be published.

 

Submission Guidelines

A word file meeting the style guidelines and formatting details of JARSSH are submitted through the online submission system via https://jarssh.com/form.php. A confirmation email is sent upon successful submission of the manuscript.

 

Manuscript Preparation

The abstract should be no more than 300 words long and should come under the following subheadings. So that article can be easily followed by readers.
Aim: Tell readers about the purpose of this analysis in clear words. (50-60 words)
Method: Provide the techniques, processes, applications, analysis, and survey that were used to perform this report. (50-60 words)
Findings: Write just the key points in a few sentences. There will be no discussion or justification. (50-60 words)
Implications/Novel Contribution: Mention the name of the field, disciplines, and so on where this analysis can be useful. (50-60 words) What is new in this research that might be of interest to readers, and how is it progressing or generating new information in this field? (50-60 words)
Keywords: 5 to 6 keywords. Take 2 or 3 from the title. Keywords should be commonly Google searchable terms