The journal is on indefinite hiatus
This journal ceased publication with its last issue published in March 2018.
ISSN: 2187-0640
Contact: publications@iafor.org
The IAFOR Journal of the Social Sciences is an internationally reviewed and editorially independent interdisciplinary journal associated with IAFOR’s international conferences on the social sciences. Like all IAFOR publications, it is freely available to read online, and is free of publication fees for authors. The first issue was published in December 2013, and the journal continues to publish annually.
IAFOR Commitment
IAFOR believes in “Open Access” publishing, and since 2009, has been committed to maintaining an online searchable research archive that offers free access to anyone, anywhere, where there is Internet access, regardless of institutional affiliation or scholarly rank. IAFOR publications are accessible on the website (Open Access) to researchers all over the world, completely free of charge and without delay or embargo. Authors and contributors are not required to pay charges of any sort towards the publication of IAFOR journals.
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