Aims and Scope of the Journal

The primary objective of this journal is to provide a platform to the scholars and faculty members of humanities and social sciences to share their critical thoughts, outcomes of their research studies and other literary works. The journal aims to publish original research papers, scholarly articles and critiques in the field of humanities and social sciences. The journal also intends to disseminate scientific, literary and artistic knowledge in the field of humanities and social sciences and would be able to generate debate in the domain. The journal accepts only original research papers, articles, and critiques that has not been published or under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Subject wise Coverage

• Anthropology

• Cultural Studies

• Economics

• Education

• English

• Gender Studies

• Geography

• History

• Home Science

• Human Rights

• Law

• Management

• Philosophy

• Political Science

• Psychology

• Social Work

• Sociology

• Other related areas

The journal will publish original articles, research papers, critiques written in English. Manuscripts submitted to this journal undergoes a rigorous peer review process taking into account their quality, originality, relevance, readability and their accord with the aims and objects of the journal subject to plagiarism check before publication to ensure novelty, proper citations of sources and high-quality works to the field of scholarly publication.

Publication Policy:

Mode of Publication

This is an online journal. So, all accepted manuscripts are published online.

Frequency of Publication

The journal is published half-yearly. 

Peer Review Policy

All manuscripts are routed through subject experts or independent researchers in the relevant research area for quality check viz. originality, validity and significance before publishing the manuscripts in the journal. Upon completion of the review process, the author of the manuscript will receive an evaluation result as follows: 

Accepted 

Accepted with minor revision

Accepted with major revision

Rejected or declined

The journal strives to pass on reviewers’ comments to author(s) within few weeks. The editorial board will re-review the manuscripts received after necessary revisions where applicable, based on the reviewers’ comments before acceptance. Papers will be published within 1-2 months or in the upcoming issues after acceptance. 

Plagiarism

Author(s) must have to submit an only original manuscript that is not plagiarized. Author(s) must also have to ensure that the submitted manuscript has not been published or is being considered elsewhere. Besides, any work, data or quotes taken from other sources/ publications must be appropriately cited/ quoted. This is the full responsibility of the author(s) to obtain the necessary permission from the owner(s) while including figures, tables or text passages that have already been published in-copyright material. Author(s) must have to illustrate their own work and state the findings clearly and honestly without any fabrication, falsification or inappropriate manipulation of data.

An undertaking to this effect in the prescribed format (Common Declaration) has to be given by the author(s) including co-authors while submission of manuscript to this journal.

Open Access Journal

The published papers, articles, contents of this journal are accessible online free of cost

Copyright Policy

All papers, articles, contents published by this Journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialShareAlike 4.0 International License. Additional terms may apply.

 Journal Management Committee:

Convener:

Dr. Surajit Bhuyan

Principal, Lakhimpur Girls' College

Advisor(s):

Dr. Bhupen Chutia (on Lien)

Associate Professor, Department of English, Lakhimpur Girls' College

Dr. Lohit Hazarika (on Lien)

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Lakhimpur Girls' College

Dr. H. M. Abdus Shahid

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Lakhimpur Girls' College

Dr. Kalidash Brahma

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Lakhimpur Girls' College

Editor:

Dr. Hemanta Kr. Baruah

Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Lakhimpur Girls' College

Co-Editor:

Dr. Gobin Chandra Boruah

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Lakhimpur Girls' College