About the Biannual Journal of Humanities Studies Based on the Quran:
The Biannual Journal of Humanities Studies Based on the Quran, affiliated with the University of Quranic Sciences and Knowledge, is published under license No. 97769, dated 2024/05/30(Iranian calendar), issued by the Directorate General of Domestic Publications, Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, and with official authorization from Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. The journal operates under an Open Access model and collaborates with the Iranian Association of Quran and Transformation of Sciences (view the Memorandum of Understanding here). Its primary mission is to create favorable conditions and opportunities for conducting specialized research in the field of Comparative Quranic Interpretation (see the journal’s thematic scopes).
A. Financial Policies
Article Processing Charges:
All stages—including initial screening, peer review, acceptance, and publication—are entirely free of charge.
Subscription Fees:
As an electronic, open-access journal, Humanities Studies Based on the Quran imposes no subscription fees on its readers.
B. Open Access and Copyright Policies
Comparative Humanities Studies Based on the Quran is a biannual open-access journal. This means all published articles are freely and immediately accessible on the journal’s website upon publication.
The journal is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). License holders may copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works based on the original article, provided they give appropriate credit to the original published work.
Authors retain unlimited copyright over the content of their articles.
C. Publication Ethics Policies
Comparative Humanities Studies Based on the Quran adheres to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and upholds the highest ethical standards in reviewing and publishing articles. To ensure originality, all submissions are screened using the “Samim Noor” plagiarism detection software before undergoing rigorous peer evaluation.
At the time of submission, authors must affirm that their manuscript represents original research, has not been previously published in any language, and is not currently under review by any other journal. (For further details, please review the journal’s Publication Ethics page.)
Authors are required to comply with all copyright laws and agreements.
Any form of plagiarism is unethical and strictly unacceptable.
For detailed information on publication ethics and guidelines, please visit: http://publicationethics.org
D. Publication Schedule
The Journal of Humanities Studies Based on the Quran is published quarterly, releasing four issues per year. All published articles, from inception to present, are permanently accessible on the journal’s official website: hsb.quran.ac.ir
E. Publishing Features
Like other publications of the University of Quranic Sciences and Knowledge, this journal assigns a unique identifier (DOI or DOR) to each article and author to enhance discoverability and attribution.
Following a rigorous peer-review process, the journal publishes articles in three categories: research, review, and popular science (outreach).
The journal’s primary language is English, accompanied by Persian abstracts and reference lists.
F. Indexing and Databases
The Journal of Humanities Studies Based on the Quran is indexed in the following databases:
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