The Journal of Qubahan Political Journal (QPJ) is a quarterly journal published by Qubahan, Iraq. QPJ publishes original research in political science and international relations, law, management, monitoring, policy, and the visual and performing arts fields. QPJ is a peer-reviewed open access journal with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). QPJ provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of research articles without requiring a journal subscription and has no article processing charge (APC). QPJ applies the highest standards to everything it does and adopts the IEEE or APA citation/referencing style. QPJ Section Policy includes three types of publications: articles, review articles, and letters.

Section Policies

Articles: This is the main type of publication that QPJ will produce. 

[Peer Reviewed        Indexed        Open Submission]

Review Articles: A critical, constructive analysis of the literature in a specific field through summary, classification, analysis, and comparison.

[Peer Reviewed        Indexed        Open Submission]

Letters are short reports of original research focused on an outstanding finding whose importance means that it will be of interest to scientists in other fields.

[Peer Reviewed        Indexed        Open Submission]

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

QPJ Journal is published 4 times per year. Accepted papers are published online ahead of print. QPJ is published online with an e-ISSN as soon as the peer-review process is finalized. QPJ's hard copy is published quarterly with a p-ISSN, based on the author's request, with the first issue publishing the accepted papers in January, the second in April, the third in July, and the fourth in October. The hard copy of QPJ is published with all accepted online papers within each publication period.

 

PEER REVIEW POLICIES

At QPJ, we are committed to prompt, quality scientific work with local and global impacts. To maintain a high-quality publication, all submissions undergo a rigorous review process. Characteristics of the peer review process are as follows:

• The journal's double-blind peer review is a rigorous evaluation method.
• Simultaneous submissions of the same manuscript to different journals will not be tolerated.
• Manuscripts with contents outside the scope will not be considered for review.
• Papers will be refereed by at least two experts, as suggested by the editorial board.
• In addition, Editors will have the option of seeking additional reviews when needed. The authors will be informed when Editors decide further review is required.
• All publication decisions are made by the journal's Editors-in-Chief on the basis of the referees' reports. Authors of papers that are not accepted are notified promptly.
• All submitted manuscripts are treated as confidential documents. We expect our Board of Reviewing Editors, Associate Editors and reviewers to treat manuscripts as confidential material as well.
• Editors, Associate Editors, and reviewers must disclose any conflicts of interest with authors and recuse themselves from evaluations where such conflicts prevent objectivity. Privileged information or ideas that are obtained through peer review must not be used for competitive gain.
• Our peer-review process is confidential, and we cannot reveal the identities of reviewers.

Note: All manuscripts submitted will be checked for plagiarism (copying text or results from other sources) and self-plagiarism (duplicating substantial parts of the authors' own published work without giving the appropriate references) using the CrossCheck database. Plagiarism is not tolerated.

For more information about CrossCheck/iThenticate, please visit http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html.

ARCHIVING

This journal uses the LOCKSS and CLOCKSS systems to create a distributed archiving network among participating libraries, enabling them to create permanent archives of the journal for preservation and restoration. 

LOCKSS:

Open Journal Systems supports the LOCKSS (Many Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure a secure and permanent archive for the journal. LOCKSS is open-source software developed at Stanford University Library that enables libraries to preserve selected web journals by regularly polling registered journal websites for newly published content and archiving it. Each archive is continually validated against other library caches, and if the content is corrupted or lost, the other caches or the journal restore it.

CLOCKSS:

Open Journal Systems also supports the CLOCKSS (Controlled Many Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system to ensure a secure and permanent archive for the journal. CLOCKSS is based on the open-source LOCKSS software developed at Stanford University Library, which enables libraries to preserve selected web journals by regularly polling registered journal websites for newly published content and archiving it. Each archive is continually validated against other library caches, and if the content is corrupted or lost, the other caches or the journal restores it.