Aims
What CIJAR sets out to do, and how we'll know we're doing it.
A journal is only useful if good work can get in, and anyone can get it out.
Why CIJAR exists
Many capable researchers, especially early in their careers or outside large institutions, struggle to find a journal that will review their work seriously without charging them for it. Many readers, in turn, can't get past paywalls to read the research that concerns them.
Cordoba International Journal of Academic Research is our answer to both problems: a multidisciplinary journal that reviews every paper with care, charges nothing to publish, and makes everything it publishes free to read.
Seven commitments
Each one comes with the practical step we take to keep it.
Judge the work, not the author
A paper from a first-year Ph.D. scholar gets the same reading as one from a professor.
How: double-blind review by at least two experts.
Keep research free to read
Knowledge that stays behind a paywall can't inform students, practitioners or the public.
How: every article is open access under CC BY 4.0.
Never charge authors
The ability to pay shouldn't decide who gets published.
How: no submission, review or publication fees, at any stage.
Put disciplines in conversation
Hard questions, about technology and ethics or tradition and change, rarely belong to one field.
How: a broad scope and reviewers drawn from more than one discipline where a paper needs it.
Help authors improve
Review should leave a paper stronger, even when the answer is no.
How: reviewers are asked for specific, constructive reports, and every decision comes with reasons.
Hold everyone to the same ethics
Integrity applies to authors, reviewers and editors alike, including our own editors' papers.
How: Turnitin screening, UGC-based integrity rules and published editorial ethics.
Build a record that lasts
Published research should stay findable, citable and unchanged.
How: a permanent archive by volume and issue, with a page and citation details for every article.
Where we're heading
We're starting small and deliberately. Our first goals are to publish four complete issues a year on schedule, build an editorial board and reviewer pool that spans disciplines and countries, and obtain an ISSN.
As the journal grows, we plan to assign DOIs to every article, apply to the indexing services our authors rely on once we meet their criteria, and organise themed issues and workshops that bring our authors and readers together. We'll only describe the journal as indexed or listed once that is actually true.
See the subjects we cover on our scope page, or prepare your paper with the submission guidelines.
Publish with CIJAR
Double-blind review, open access, no fees.