INDEXING & ABSTRACTING

INDEXING & ABSTRACTING

1. Indexing & Digital Interoperability

The Journal of Social Science Perspectives (JSSP) disseminates high-quality scholarly metadata through internationally recognized discovery services and interoperable scholarly communication systems. Every published article is assigned a permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to ensure persistent citation, long-term accessibility, and reliable scholarly linking.

  • Persistent Identifiers: Crossref (DOI Prefix: 10.65761)
  • Scholarly Discovery Engines: Google Scholar, BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
  • Open Metadata Registries: OpenAlex, Scilit
  • Open Access Directories: ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources – UNESCO)
    Registered in the ISSN International Portal. Standard indexing synchronization is currently underway for formal inclusion in ROAD.
  • Metadata Harvesting: Published using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform with native OAI-PMH support, enabling automated harvesting by international indexing services, library catalogues, repositories, and scholarly search engines.

2. Open Access, Licensing & Copyright

JSSP operates as a Gold Open Access journal. All published content is immediately and permanently available without subscription fees, registration requirements, embargo periods, or paywalls.

  • Open Access Policy: Readers may freely access, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and cite all published articles.
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
  • User Rights: Published material may be reused, redistributed, translated, adapted, text-mined, or incorporated into derivative works, including commercial use, provided appropriate attribution is given to the original authors.
  • Copyright: Authors retain full copyright ownership while granting the journal a non-exclusive licence to publish, archive, preserve, and disseminate the scholarly work.

3. Publication Ethics & Editorial Standards

JSSP is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics, editorial independence, and research integrity. The journal's policies are aligned with the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing developed jointly by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA).

A. Authorship & Research Integrity

Authors must submit original and unpublished scholarly work that is not under consideration elsewhere. All sources must be properly acknowledged, authorship must accurately reflect individual scholarly contributions, and all financial, institutional, or personal conflicts of interest, together with funding sources, must be transparently disclosed.

B. Publication Ethics & COPE Core Practices

The Editorial Office follows the COPE Core Practices for managing submissions, peer review, corrections, retractions, complaints, appeals, and publication misconduct. All manuscripts undergo plagiarism screening prior to peer review. The journal maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, data falsification, citation manipulation, image manipulation, and inappropriate authorship practices.

C. Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions are based exclusively on scholarly quality, originality, methodological rigor, ethical conduct, and relevance to the journal's scope. Editorial processes remain completely independent of commercial, institutional, political, financial, or personal influence.

D. Ethical Research Involving Human Participants

Research involving human participants, interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, observations, personal information, or identifiable data must comply with internationally accepted ethical standards for social and behavioural research. Where applicable, authors must state that approval was obtained from an appropriate Research Ethics Committee (REC), Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC), or Institutional Review Board (IRB), together with confirmation that informed consent was obtained from participants when required. Authors must also ensure participant confidentiality, privacy, and responsible handling of research data throughout the study.