Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Journal of Gender and Social Inclusion in Muslim Societies (JGSIMS) is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on gender and child issues. It aims to disseminate relevant knowledge and to provide a framework for social transformation in gender equality and child protection. It welcomes submissions on gender and child issues from any perspective, including religion, economics, health, reproduction, feminism, culture, history, education, law, art, digital information, libraries, politics, sociology and anthropology, communication, and politics.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

Journal of Gender and Social Inclusion in Muslim Societies (JGSIMS) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. This means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away clues to the authors’ identity. Citations that may reveal the authors’ identities (e.g., “in an extension of our previous work [citation of work with authors’ names]”) should be masked (e.g., [“Authors, 2011”]). The authors’ names, positions or titles, places of employment, and mailing addresses should appear on one cover title page only, not in an author footnote. Other subsequent pages should include only the manuscript title in the header.

Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees for contribution, originality, and relevance. Reviewer selection is critical to the publication process, and we base our choice on many factors, including expertise, reputation, specific recommendations, and our own previous experience of a reviewer's characteristics. We check with potential reviewers before sending them manuscripts to review. Reviewers reserve the right to reject the script if the script review didn't match the fields/expertise. Reviewers should bear in mind that all correspondence in this journal contains confidential information, which should be treated as such. In general, we need one month to inform you about the results. Totally, the peer review process is estimated to take up to three months.

 

Publication Frequency

This Journal is Published two times a year

January-June and July-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...