Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Studies in Asian Social Science (SASS) welcomes research that uses Asian evidence to address broader conceptual, comparative, and empirical questions in the social sciences.

The journal covers the following main areas:

  • Social Structure, Inequality, and Demography
  • Politics, Governance, and Institutions
  • Development, Labor, and Organizations
  • Culture, Communication, and Digital Society
  • Education and Social Transformation
  • Migration, Mobility, and Transnational Asia
  • Urban, Rural, and Environmental Change
  • Language, Discourse, and Social Life
  • History, Heritage, and Social Change

Manuscripts whose primary orientation lies in business-oriented, literary, linguistic, or historical studies are considered within the journal’s scope only when they make a clear and substantive contribution to social-science understanding of Asia.

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Peer Review Process

The journal uses double-anonymized peer-reviewed system for peer-review. The manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two independent external reviewers with relevant expertise. The review process may take 4-10 weeks. The editorial board makes the editorial decision after considering the reviewers' reports, the manuscript's scholarly quality, relevance, originality, methodological or analytical validity, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and any other relevant information. Possible decisions include acceptance, minor revision, major revision, rejection with an invitation to submit a substantially revised manuscript as a new submission, or rejection.

 

Publication Frequency

Semiannual, published in January and July

 

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Special Issue

To better serve the academic community, we welcome collaboration with academic and research institutions to publish special issues. If you are interested in proposing a special issue for our journal, please submit your inquiry and proposal to sass@sciedupress.com 

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Before submitting a proposal, please note the following:

  • The special issue should focus on a specific research topic, conference theme, or closely related area within the journal’s scope.
  • All manuscripts submitted to the special issue will follow the same editorial and peer-review process as regular submissions.
  • Proposed guest editors and reviewers are subject to approval by the journal.
  • Proposals should be submitted to the journal at least five months before the planned publication date.
  • An article processing charge (APC) applies to each accepted article.
  • All published articles will be freely available online as open-access articles.

We are committed to facilitating the dissemination of high-quality research and knowledge through special issues. We look forward to working with you to bring your research to a wider audience. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any queries or concerns.