I T A L I E N I S C H

About the Journal

ITALIENISCH (ISSN: 0171-4996) is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed journal published by Verlag Sauerlander. The main objective of ITALIENISCH is to provide an intellectual platform for the international scholars. ITALIENISCH aims to promote interdisciplinary studies in social sciences. The journal accepts article submissions by e-mail : admin@italienisch.nl; italienisch.editor@gmail.com.

Focus and Scope

The journal publishes research papers in the fields of social science such as follows:

 Paper Selection and Publication Process

• There are no submission charges.
• Upon receipt of paper submission, the Editorial Assistant sends an E-mail of confirmation to the corresponding author within 1-2 working days. If you fail to receive this confirmation, your submission/e-mail may be missed. Please contact the Editorial Assistant in time.
• Peer review. We use double-blind system for peer-review; both reviewers and authors’ identities remain anonymous. The paper will be peer-reviewed by three experts; two external reviewers and one editor from the journal typically involve in reviewing a manuscript. The review process may take 2-3 weeks.
• The authors revise paper and pay publication fee (1000USD).
• Notification of the result of review by E-mail.
• E-journal in PDF is available on the journal’s webpage for download, free of charge and to download some articles you have to subscribe.

Index/List/Archive

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), Google Scholar, RePEc, IDEAS, EconPapers, Academic Resource Index, Econ Biz, WorldCat, Scopus and ScimagoJr.

ITALIENISCH (ITALIENISCH ) holds the ethics of publication as one of its core values and as such, adheres strictly to internationally accepted publication ethics. To ensure compliance, ITALIENISCH employs the double-blinded peer-review process for all articles. The rationale for double-blinded peer review process is to validate the integrity and novelty of the research work. Peer review process adopted by the ITALIENISCH acts as a filter and increases the quality of research submitted for publication. This process also help the authors to remove any errors or gaps in manuscript mistakenly overlooked and assists in making the research more applicable in real time.

ITALIENISCH follows the COPE guidelines on publication ethics.

Authors must confirm the following; that: 

• Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s);
• Only unpublished manuscripts should be submitted;
• It is unethical to submit a manuscript to more than one journal concurrently;
• Any conflict of interest must be clearly stated;
• The sources of data used in the development of the manuscript is acknowledged;
• All errors discovered in the manuscript after submission must be swiftly communicated to the Editor.

 Reviewers are expected to evaluate a manuscript for critical analysis, comparative analysis and most importantly for integrity and novelty of the research work.

Therefore, reviewers must confirm the following; that: 

• All manuscripts are reviewed in fairness based on the intellectual content of the article regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenry nor political values of author(s);
• Any observed conflict of interest during the review process must be communicated to the Editor;
• All information pertaining to the manuscript is kept confidential;
• Any information that may be the reason for the rejection of publication of a manuscript must be communicated to the Editor. 

Editors must confirm the following; that: 

• All manuscripts are evaluated in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenry nor political values of authors;
• Information pertaining to manuscripts are kept confidential;
• Any observed conflict of interest pertaining to manuscripts must be disclosed;
• Editorial Board takes responsibility for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts based on the reviewer's evaluation of the manuscript, policies of the journal editorial board and legal restrain acting against plagiarism, libel and copyright infringement.