Yugavani is a bi-annual, double-blind, peer-reviewed academic journal committed to the support of high-quality scholarly research and intellectual discourse in a wide range of disciplines. It is a forum for original and innovative ideas, findings and critical analysis by researchers, academics, professionals, students, policy makers and practitioners in the advancement of academic knowledge and society development.
Yugavani is a journal with a mission to promote the generation, dissemination, and exchange of knowledge through an accessible, all-encompassing forum for scholarly communication in Nepali and English languages. The journal aims to bring the disciplines together, promote interdisciplinary discussion, and facilitate research that enhances local, national and international solutions.
The journal welcomes papers in any field of social science and humanities, including but not limited to, education, management, economics, science, public policy, language and literature, culture and other fields of emerging research. Original research articles, review papers, book reviews, research reports, and conference proceedings are welcomed by Yougvani. All papers are double blind peer-reviewed to guarantee the integrity, quality and relevance of the submitted papers.
It is dedicated to scholarly excellence, ethical publishing, and bilingual access, for the academic community and the broader public, advancing research, fostering innovation, and facilitating the dissemination of knowledge, spanning languages and disciplines.
This Journal publishes 2 issues in a year: June and November.
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There is no embargo on the journal’s publications.
The articles in युगवाणी Yugavani are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. This license enables re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.
All submissions are initially assessed by an Editor, who decides whether the article is suitable for peer review. Submissions considered suitable for peer review are assigned to two or more subject experts, who assess the article for clarity, validity, and sound methodology. If suitable experts external to the journal cannot be found then members of the Editorial Board may be asked to complete a review task.
In cases where it is proving very difficult to find peer reviewers, a member of the journal editorial board or editorial team may be a suitable alternative. In such cases the member of the board/team acting as a reviewer is removed from all other editorial decision making regarding the submission in question so that they cannot unduly influence the process. If contributing their own feedback, the handling editor does so transparently and not under the guise of an anonymous reviewer.
The journal operates an anonymous peer review process, meaning that authors and reviewers do not know each other's identities during the review process. The review period is expected to take around six to eight weeks, although this can vary depending on reviewer availability. Reviewers are asked to provide formative feedback, even if an article is not deemed suitable for publication in the journal.
Based on the reviewer reports the editor will make a recommendation for rejection, revisions, and re-review (major revisions), revisions requested (minor revisions), or acceptance. Overall editorial responsibility rests with the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, who is supported by an expert, international Editorial Board.
Members of the editorial team/board are permitted to submit their own papers to the journal. In cases where an author is associated with the journal, they will be removed from all editorial tasks for that paper and another member of the team will be assigned responsibility for overseeing peer review. A competing interest must also be declared within the submission and any resulting publication.
All listed authors must qualify as such. All authors must have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper.
The journal strongly recommends that all authors submitting a paper register an account with Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID). Registration provides a unique and persistent digital identifier for the account that enables accurate attribution and improves the discoverability of published papers, ensuring that the correct author receives the correct credit for their work. As the ORCID remains the same throughout the lifetime of the account, changes of name, affiliation, or research area do not affect the discoverability of an author's past work and aid correspondence with colleagues.
The journal encourages all corresponding authors to include an ORCID within their submitting author data whilst co-authors are recommended to include one. ORCID numbers should be added to the author data upon submission and will be published alongside the submitted paper, should it be accepted.
To ensure transparency, all authors, reviewers, and editors are required to declare any interests that could compromise, conflict or influence the validity of the publication.
In addition, authors are required to specify funding sources and detail requirements for ethical research in the submitted manuscript. All authors must confirm that they fit the definition of an author during submission.
The journal does not tolerate abusive behaviour or correspondence towards its staff, academic editors, authors, or reviewers. Any person engaged with the journal who resorts to abusive behaviour or correspondence will have their contribution immediately withdrawn and future engagement with the journal will be at the discretion of the editor and/or publisher.
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