Researchers and scholars from all fields of study are welcome to submit their evidence-based original research and literature syntheses to the journal. We encourage quality submissions from students, early career, and established scholars. 

JIS does not normally consider opinion pieces, narrative essays, or manuscripts whose primary contribution is unsupported theoretical speculation. While those works are valuable, this journal is dedicated to empirical research and rigorous syntheses of empirical research. 

All manuscripts should be submitted as email attachments - see our submission page. Before submitting, please attend to our Instructions to Authors page for formatting instructions. 

Yes, JIS is a peer-reviewed journal. Our peer-review process ensures that all submitted articles are evaluated for their originality, significance, and clarity by experts in the relevant field.

The journal receives no external funding or fees for subscriptions or article access. As such, the journal charges a fee in the form of Article Processing Charges for accepted articles to support journal infrastructure and operations. There is no fee for submission or review of articles. Fees are only charged after final acceptance of an article.

Articles are usually published live on our website usually within one week after our receipt of the Article Processing Charge. A DOI is issued soon thereafter. The total time from our receipt of initial submissions to article publication on our website varies from two weeks if few revisions are needed to about two months in cases of longer author turn-around of needed revisions.

This depends on the indexing service. We have no control over this. For example, Google Scholar usually indexes published articles within two weeks. However, we've noticed much variance in this with some articles taking 2-3 days and others several weeks. We encourage authors to post their published articles in repositories and academic social media such as ResearchGate or Academia.edu to facilitate indexing.  

All articles published in the Journal of International Scholarship are freely available online (open access) to promote the dissemination of knowledge. Check our Archives page to locate issues and articles. 

Yes, publication certificates are available but are not issued automatically. Upon request of the author(s), the journal may issue a publication certificate by email confirming the publication of an article. Certificates are issued at no cost. Certificates are optional and intended solely for administrative or institutional verification purposes (e.g., employment reporting, degree requirements, funding documentation). Certificates do not confer any academic status beyond what is evidenced by the article itself and are secondary to the definitive scholarly record, which is the article as published on the journal’s website. The authoritative version of record is identified by the article’s DOI and official online publication page. Institutions are encouraged to verify publications directly through these sources whenever possible.

The journal does not consider outright republications of articles. However, in line with standard publication ethics, the Journal of International Scholarship considers manuscripts that build upon an author’s previously published article or book (including replication studies, follow-up investigations, extended or revised articles, and authorized translations or adaptations of work previously published in another language) provided the submission is transparent about the prior publication and represents a scholarly contribution beyond the previously published work. Any prior publication must be disclosed at submission and appropriately cited in the manuscript. Submissions that substantially duplicate previously published work without clear disclosure are not considered. Authors with questions are welcome to contact the editorial office prior to submission.

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