Culture and Folk Literature

Number of Volumes	13
Number of Issues	65
Number of Articles	547
Number of Contributors	853
Article View	137,688
PDF Download	60,282
View Per Article	251.71
PDF Download Per Article	110.2

Number of Submissions	1,656
Rejected Submissions	741
Rejection Rate	45
Accepted Submissions	650
Acceptance Rate	39
Time to Accept (Days)	186
Time to Publish (After Acceptance) (Days)	71
Number of Indexing Databases	5
Number of Reviewers	633

Aims and scope:

The Journal of Popular Culture and Literature at Tarbiat Modares University was established with the aim of expanding the frontiers of knowledge and enhancing the quality of scientific research in the field of popular culture and folklore. The main objectives of the journal are as follows:

Publishing original and innovative research in the areas of popular culture, folklore, oral narratives, myths, legends, and other related branches.
Strengthening and expanding interdisciplinary approaches between literary studies, anthropology, history, linguistics, and art.
Scientifically critiquing and analyzing written and oral heritage.
Supporting researchers and providing a suitable platform for disseminating their scientific achievements.
Promoting and propagating a research-oriented culture in the preservation and representation of intangible cultural heritage.
Becoming a credible platform for the exchange of ideas and findings among domestic and international researchers.
Playing an effective role in preserving, recognizing, and introducing the cultural and literary heritage of diverse communities.
Enhancing intercultural and interdisciplinary collaborations in the field of popular culture and literary studies.

Peer-Review Policy:
The peer review process in this Journal is double-blinded in which the reviewer’s name is unknown to the author and vice versa. Submitted articles go through a structural and subject evaluation to make sure they are in line with Culture and Folk Literature principles. Confirmed papers go through a double-blind peer review by three field experts chosen by the Board of Review based on their specialty.

Reviewers Responsibilities:
The reviewers have the following responsibilities:
- Assisting the chief editor in decision-making and potentially helping authors improve papers through editorial communication. The reviewers are asked to decline the review if unqualified or unable to promptly review.
- Treating the PDF manuscripts as confidential documents and avoiding unauthorized sharing.
- Conducting objective reviews, avoiding personal criticism, and providing clear, supported feedback.
- Identifying relevant, uncited published work and reporting potential plagiarism or overlap with other publications.

The journal maintains confidentiality of information and ideas, avoiding personal gain or reviewing papers with conflicts of interest.

Open Access Policy:
Open access and free (all papers)
This Journal’s contents and the articles are freely available to readers without subscriptions or payments through the journal website or its permanent repositories. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, publish, search, and refer to the articles without the permission of the publisher or author as far as the articles are correctly cited.

Publishing Ethics: This Journal follows all the terms and conditions of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws and the law regarding the prevention and prosecution of plagiarism.
Licensing Policy: This Journal is licensed under the terms of international copyright law of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial "(CC BY-NC)"

Authors fees: Dear authors/ paper contributors, you are being humbly informed that the journal charges 600 thousand Tomans (In two steps: Reviewing: 200 thousand Tomans, and Publishing: 400 thousand Tomans)

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Self-archiving policies for authors
Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in this Journal as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website.

Copyright Policy : Under open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, and reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly.

Scientific ID of the Bimonthly Culture and Folk Literatur
Journal Type	Scientific (Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology)
Publication Period	Bimonthly
Editor-in-Chief	Naser Nikoobakht
Establishment	2013
Ranking	ISC (Q1), Ministry of Science (B), Impact Factor (0.3)
Ranking	Scientific-research with reference to document No. 3/18/23387 on 14/05/2013 in the committee of scientific journals
Average review process	Two months, at least 3 reviewers
Acceptance rate	28%
Language of publication	Farsi (Abstract: English)
Type of publication	Electronic
Access policy	Open and free (all papers)
Scope	Folk literature, folk culture, language and folk dialect, folk arts, ethnography, criticism and culture and folk literature theories (with an emphasis on folk literature for all areas of research)
Address and Contact number	09333086132 (calls available on Monday from 12 to 16), available all time through message and email at: cfl@modares.ac.ir Research center of Language and Persian Literature, Tarbiat Modares University, Intersection of Jalal and Chamran, Tehran
Executive staff	Director: Parnian Zarepour; Farsi editor: Leila Ahmadi; English editor: Ehsan Mehri; Paging: Zeinab Nourpour Juybari
Review and publication charge	200.000 tomans for the review process and 400.000 tomans for the acceptance and publication
Bank account No.	Bank account No.: 4001075003007294 Shaba ID.: ir520100004001075003007294 Deposit ID: 386075074140103004110860000000 The payment should be done on the journal’s website (author’s account), which will be done through connecting to the transferring channel of the bank after the primary reception of the paper (before the review process) and after the final acceptance (before the acceptance letter).