Publishing Policy

Publishing Policy

"Al-Turath Al-Adabi" is using the Open Journal System (OJS) for paper submission and review process. All authors, reviewers and members of the Editorial Committee will have to register on "Al-Turath Al-Adabi"-OJS after accepting terms and conditions in declaration. Transparency of research papers will be ensured through blind peer-review by the Journals’ Editorial Committee. The stepwise publication process is given below in detail.

1. Call for research papers with deadline shall be published on Journal as well on "Al-Turath Al-Adabi"’s web site and its social media platforms for each issue of the journal. The journals will receive papers electronically using OJS.
2. Editorial committee will carry out initial screening through a desk review to accept or reject the submitted paper in accordance with the guidelines of “Al-Turath Al-Adabi”. Moreover, a detailed peer review policy has been mentioned under section 5.5
3. Each journal should have at least 05 articles in each issue. However, an effort should be made to include 07-10 articles for each journal issue.
4. Publications by the editor or members of the editorial team are not allowed.
5. The researchers outside NUML are only eligible to apply for publication in journals as no self-institutional publication is allowed under HEC policy.
6. Al-Turath Al-Adabi invites international authors to publish their articles. As per the policy of HEC, at least 1/4th of the published articles is of international authorship.