About Journal
Aims and scope:
General policy of the journal: Journal of Culture and Folk Literature aims to encourage studies, research projects, and data collection on language, oral literature, and their analysis from linguistic, literary, social, and cultural perspectives. The main approach of the journal is folk literature and its related elements. Papers related to literature are also received and reviewed if they are conducted in the field of folk culture.
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)
Samir Noor site to receive certificate of the text originality: certificate:https://www.samimnoor.ir/view/fa/Default/%d8%b5%d9%81%d8%ad%d9%87-%d8%a7%d8%b5%d9%84%db%8c
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.
General policy of the journal: Journal of Culture and Folk Literature aims to encourage studies, research projects, and data collection on language, oral literature, and their analysis from linguistic, literary, social, and cultural perspectives. The main approach of the journal is folk literature and its related elements. Papers related to literature are also received and reviewed if they are conducted in the field of folk culture.
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)
Samir Noor site to receive certificate of the text originality: certificate:https://www.samimnoor.ir/view/fa/Default/%d8%b5%d9%81%d8%ad%d9%87-%d8%a7%d8%b5%d9%84%db%8c
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.