Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by Khazar University Press (Baku, Azerbaijan). The journal focuses on the results of original research projects in various fields of Politics, International Relations, Education, History of Thoughts, Language, and Literature. The journal is published out of Azerbaijan but accepts articles from authors all around the globe.
Articles and any other material published in the Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences represent opinions of the author(s) and should not be considered to reflect the opinions of the Editorial Board.
The KJHSS is published in four issues (spring, summer, fall, and winter) per year.
The journal is fully financially supported by Khazar University. There are no publication fees for any author.
Copyrights to articles are held by Khazar University Press upon acceptance of the articles for publication. However, users are allowed to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author as long as they properly cite the biographical information of the articles.
Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (KJHSS) is indexed with the following organizations:
Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, COPE, Google (Scholar), Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ), Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI), “Crossref “, EBSCO Host, Arastirmax, ASOS index, EZB-Electronic Journal Library, “Scirus (Elsevier)”, DuraSpace, Infoseek, Open J-GATE, IndexCopernicus, Genamics, Arastirmax, New Jour, OAJI(Open Academic Journals Index.), TEI (Türk eğitim indeksi), National Library of Finland, Washington University Library, Chicago University Library, Academic Journals Database, NSD, Database of University of Science and Technology of China, E-resources Subject Access, Asian Digital Library.
Statement about Open Access
This is an open-access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Articles are made available on the journal website as full-text pdf files.
Research Misconduct and Plagiarism
The KJHSS has a zero-tolerance policy for plagiarism and research misconduct. All submissions are scanned for possible plagiarism. When plagiarism is detected and confirmed, the article is immediately rejected for publication and the offending author is blacklisted from further publication with Khazar University Press journals. The KJHSS follows the COPE guidelines regarding allegations of research misconduct in its publications.
Code of conduct and best practice guidelines for journal editors
The KJHSS follows the conflict of interest policy of PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA).
Archiving
All back articles are made available as full text on the journal website. In the event that the KJHSS discontinues its publication, its archive of published articles will still remain available on the journal website, to be maintained as an archive website by Khazar University Press.