About the Journal

The Journal of Social-Political Studies of Iran's Culture and History is published to enhance the academic and specialized level of the community and to introduce the scientific and research activities and investigative articles of faculty members, researchers, and scholars.

Objectives: Efforts and collaboration to develop political and social research in the contemporary history of Iran; commitment to establishing research areas and political and social studies in the contemporary history of Iran; creating convergence between political sciences and social sciences as fields of humanities.

Scope: Publication of scientific articles on various political and social aspects of the lives of the people of Iran throughout its contemporary history, with an emphasis on the following areas: theoretical and methodological discussions in the field of political and social studies; social and political strata and classes; social and political beliefs; social policies and political communities; social and political institutions; comparative studies of political and social fields of Iran and other countries; livelihood and daily life; population and migration; natural disasters; diseases; health and medicine; rural and urbanization; customs and traditions; pastoral and nomadic life; and other specific areas of research in political and social studies.

Open Access Statement
This journal is committed to immediate and real open access for academic work. All the original articles, technical briefs and review papers published in this journal are free to access immediately from the date of publication.

Copyright and License Agreement

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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Similarity Check

We uphold the highest standards of academic integrity and rigor. To ensure the originality and quality of all submitted manuscripts, we utilize iThenticate, a leading plagiarism detection tool. All manuscripts undergo a thorough similarity check through iThenticate's advanced algorithms, helping us maintain the integrity of scholarly research and adhere to ethical publishing practices.

Repository and Archiving Policies

Authors are permitted to deposit all the following versions of their paper in an institutional or subject repository without any embargo.
- Preprint
- Author's Accepted Manuscript
- Published article (Version of Record)

The journal's website deposit all mentioned versions.

*The contents are archived and preserved at LOCKSS and CLOCKSS

Therefore, the articles will be available at the mentioned website in case they get removed from the journal website for any reason and the files remain permanently on that websites.