International Journal of Social Science Research and Review

About International Journal of Social Science Research and Review

International Journal of Social Science Research and Review — Journal Profile

The International Journal of Social Science Research and Review (IJSSRR; online ISSN 2700-2497) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing research across the social sciences, with a monthly rhythm and a strongly international — and noticeably Indonesian and South and Southeast Asian — authorship. Operating on the Open Journal Systems platform at ijssrr.com, the journal had reached Volume 9, Issue 10 by October 2026, a numbering sequence that places its first volume in 2018, with Volume 2, Issue 4 documented in December 2019. Its pages carry the full policy apparatus of a modern online journal — statements on peer review, publication ethics and malpractice, plagiarism, copyright and licensing, conflicts of interest, archiving, revenue sources and author fees — and its published content ranges across law, public administration, politics, education, consumer behaviour, environmental knowledge and the social study of technology. The Journals World record for the title reports an h-index of 11 and indexes its subject emphasis in Indonesian legal and regulatory studies, public administration in developing nations, and legal studies and policy — an accurate reflection of where its most characteristic contributions cluster.

This profile describes the journal's identity and bibliographic record, its scope in practice as shown by what it actually publishes, its editorial and ethics framework as the journal itself presents it, its publication pattern, its metrics in proportion, and practical guidance for authors weighing a submission and readers weighing a citation. It also flags the points where the public record is thin or internally uneven — the journal's country attribution among them — because a profile that hides those points would serve neither authors nor readers.

At a Glance

Scope: What the Journal Publishes in Practice

Generalist social-science journals live or die by the fit between their stated scope and their published contents, so the most reliable way to describe IJSSRR's scope is to read its tables of contents. Its current issue at the time of research (Volume 9, Issue 10, published 5 October 2026) opens with a study of climate change and ancestral Indian ecological knowledge, moves through consumer research on how posted original prices affect willingness to pay for sale items, a book review, a comparative study of golf participation, mindfulness and perceived stress, a review of Islamic spiritual leadership and green human-resource management in Islamic banking, an analysis of automation's effects on informal industrial workers in North India, conflict-resolution and state-building research on Syria, a comparative assessment of risk-taking among male and female entrepreneurs in India, a study of indigenous hygiene practices among married rural women in Bangladesh, an ethnographic study of embodied learning among visually impaired students in Odisha, and an analysis of artificial intelligence in market dynamics using large platform companies as cases. Earlier documented content includes a critical analysis of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia by authors at Wachemo University, and a substantial body of work on Indonesian law, regulation, public administration, employee performance and consumer behaviour.

Several conclusions follow. First, the journal is genuinely multidisciplinary rather than nominally so: law, management, public health-adjacent social research, education and political science share its issues without any single discipline monopolising them. Second, its centre of gravity is applied and policy-relevant research on developing and emerging societies — Indonesia most prominently, with India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and other settings regularly represented — rather than abstract theory from the traditional North Atlantic centres. Third, it welcomes early-career and student-adjacent work alongside established scholarship; several current-issue contributions have the character of supervised research projects developed into articles. For an author, that combination defines the realistic fit: a well-executed empirical or analytical study of a social, legal, administrative or educational question, especially one grounded in a specific national or local setting, is squarely within the journal's demonstrated scope, while highly technical econometrics or purely formal theory would sit less comfortably.

The Journals World subject analysis agrees with this reading, listing the journal's strongest areas as Indonesian legal and regulatory studies, public administration in developing nations, legal studies and policies, legal and policy analysis in Indonesia, employee performance and management, legal and social justice studies, consumer behaviour and marketing influence, and international relations and foreign policy. A journal whose indexing profile and whose live contents tell the same story is a journal whose scope statement can be trusted.

Editorial Framework, Ethics and Peer Review

The journal's website presents the standard governance documents of a contemporary OJS journal as individually maintained pages: an About the Journal statement, a Peer Review Process page, a Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement, a Plagiarism Policy, a Copyright Notice and License Agreement, a Conflicts of Interest policy, a Complaints Policy including guidance on when to dispute a decision, an Open Access Policy, an Archiving Policy, a Revenue Sources statement and Privacy and Editorial Team pages. The presence of a revenue-sources statement and a complaints route is worth noting, since both are markers that indexing services and research-integrity checklists look for and that many small journals omit.

Authors should nonetheless do the ordinary due diligence this profile cannot do for them. Read the current Author Fees page on the journal site rather than relying on any third-party summary, because fee levels change and this profile does not quote a figure it could not verify at the time of writing. Read the peer-review page for the model the journal declares — the site describes a peer-reviewed process with editorial screening — and correspond with the editorial office through the contact route the site provides if any policy point is unclear. Check the Indexing page the journal maintains for the services it claims, and verify any claim that matters to you (for tenure, funding or degree requirements) directly in that service's own master list, since journal-maintained indexing pages across the industry are not always current.

Publication Pattern and Article Character

The volume–issue arithmetic is the clearest public evidence of the journal's rhythm: Volume 2 appeared in 2019 and Volume 9 in 2026, one volume per calendar year, with issue numbers running to at least ten within the 2026 volume and a documented fourth issue in December 2019 — a pattern consistent with the monthly publication the journal's schedule implies. Issue sizes are substantial: the October 2026 issue runs to well over a hundred pages with more than a dozen main articles, each carrying its own PDF and page range within the issue. Articles follow the conventional social-science architecture — introduction, literature grounding, method, findings, discussion — and the journal publishes book reviews alongside research articles, as the Chernobyl literature review in the current issue shows.

Two practical observations follow for authors. The journal plainly operates a continuous, high-throughput workflow rather than a small annual call, so submission timing is flexible; and the diversity within each issue means editors judge fit against the broad social-science remit rather than against a narrow thematic call, which suits interdisciplinary manuscripts that more specialised journals struggle to place. The counterweight is discoverability: in a large generalist issue, a paper's visibility depends heavily on its title, abstract and keywords being written for search, so authors should craft those elements with unusual care.

Metrics and Standing, in Proportion

The Journals World record reports an h-index of 11 for IJSSRR. For a journal founded in 2018 publishing in fields — regional law, public administration, local education studies — where citation densities are modest and much influence flows through policy and teaching rather than citations, that figure indicates a real, if still developing, scholarly footprint: at least eleven of its papers have each been cited at least eleven times. It should not be read against the metrics of century-old disciplinary flagships, and authors should not expect the journal to carry a Journal Citation Reports impact factor; none is claimed in the sources consulted, and any website or agent asserting one for this title should be treated with caution and checked against Clarivate's master list.

The journal's more meaningful strengths are structural rather than metric: a complete run of volumes since 2018 with no missing years in the sequence observed, a functioning OJS archive with per-article PDFs, a broad and evidently growing international author base, and coverage of topics — Indonesian regulatory practice, South Asian social research, African federalism debates — that under-served literatures need venues for. Its corresponding cautions are equally structural: as with many young open-access generalist journals, indexing breadth is still developing, and authors whose institutions require specific database listings should confirm the current position before submitting rather than after acceptance.

Identity Note: Country and Publisher Attribution

One structured-field conflict deserves explicit record. The Journals World record attributes the journal to Germany (country code DE) and names no publisher in the material shown on the record. The journal's own contents, however, are dominated by Indonesian, South Asian and African scholarship, its strongest indexed subjects are Indonesian legal and administrative studies, and the public pages consulted for this profile do not present a German institutional publisher. This profile therefore reports the record's DE attribution as a record-level datum that could not be corroborated from the journal's own site, and states the publisher as not publicly disclosed in the sources consulted, rather than inventing an attribution. Authors and librarians who need the authoritative country and publisher of record should consult the ISSN Portal entry for 2700-2497, which is the definitive source for that field. No second live Journals World record for this title or ISSN was found in the duplicate search performed for this profile, so the conflict is a data-quality note on a single record, not a duplicate-pair issue.

A second, lesser naming caution: several unrelated journals share this title's initials or near-identical names — including an International Journal of Social Science Research published in Turkey through DergiPark (first volume 2012, different ISSN) and various IJSSR-titled journals from Indian publishers. Citations and submissions should always be pinned to ISSN 2700-2497 and the ijssrr.com domain to avoid confusing this journal with its namesakes.

Guidance for Authors and Readers

For authors, the fit test is straightforward: an original empirical, analytical or review contribution on a social-science question, clearly situated in its literature, honestly methoded, and written to be found — descriptive title, self-contained abstract, precise keywords. Follow the journal's own author guidelines and fee page as published on its site at the moment of submission, keep the decision correspondence, and verify indexing claims independently if your institution requires them. For readers and citing authors, treat IJSSRR papers as you would any young generalist journal's contents: valuable above all for primary data and situated analysis from settings the flagship journals under-publish, and to be weighed on each paper's own method and evidence rather than on the masthead alone. The journal's archive is freely readable, which makes that per-paper appraisal easy to perform.

The Journal's Regional Centre of Gravity

Although the title is framed internationally, the journal's most distinctive contribution is regional, and understanding that centre of gravity helps both authors and readers place it correctly. Indonesia's higher-education system produces a very large volume of social-science research — on its civil and criminal law, its decentralised public administration, its elections, its workplaces and its classrooms — and that research needs English-language and bilingual venues if it is to enter international conversation. IJSSRR's indexing profile, headed by Indonesian legal and regulatory studies and legal and policy analysis in Indonesia, shows it functioning as one of those venues: doctrinal and empirical work on Indonesian institutions appears in its pages alongside comparative and foreign-area studies, so an Indonesian administrative-law paper can sit in the same volume as Ethiopian federalism research or Bangladeshi public-health-adjacent social research. That juxtaposition is not incoherence; it is the pattern of a journal serving the Global South's own scholarly conversation, in which researchers in Jakarta, Dhaka, Addis Ababa and Indian state universities read and cite one another's situated work more than they are read by the traditional centres.

The same pattern explains the journal's subject spread in the Journals World analysis — employee performance and management, consumer behaviour and marketing influence, legal and social justice studies — which mirrors the research priorities of the large Indonesian and South Asian university systems, where management, law and education faculties produce the bulk of social-science output. For a reader arriving from outside that conversation, the journal is a useful window into what those systems are actually working on; for an author inside it, the journal offers a masthead whose existing contents will make an editor's fit decision quick and a reader's discovery of the paper plausible.

Reading and Using the Archive

The archive is organised by volume and issue on the journal's OJS site, with each article presented on its own page with abstract and a downloadable PDF, and current and back issues browsable without charge or registration. Researchers tracing a topic through the journal should use the site search together with the ISSN in external scholarly search engines, since generalist monthly journals accumulate large backfiles — nine volumes by late 2026 — in which issue browsing alone is inefficient. When citing, record the volume, issue, page range and year exactly as the article page gives them, and prefer the journal's own PDF for quotations so that pagination matches the version of record. Systematic reviewers working on Indonesian law and administration, Indonesian and South Asian education, or consumer and management research in emerging economies should treat the journal as a worthwhile supplementary source in their search strategies: its contents are precisely the kind of regionally published, English-accessible work that database-only searches in the largest commercial indexes can miss, and its open archive imposes no access barrier to screening what a search returns.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is IJSSRR's ISSN? 2700-2497, the online ISSN under which the journal is recorded and which appears on its own site.

Is it open access? Yes — the journal maintains an Open Access Policy page and its articles are freely readable in PDF on its site; it also maintains an Author Fees page, so check the current fee position there before submitting.

How long has it published? Volume 1 dates to 2018 on the evidence of the volume sequence; Volume 2, Issue 4 is documented in December 2019 and Volume 9, Issue 10 appeared in October 2026.

What subjects fit best? Law and regulation (especially Indonesian), public administration, political science, education, sociology, management and consumer research, and interdisciplinary social studies of developing and emerging societies.

Does it have an impact factor? No Journal Citation Reports impact factor is claimed in the sources consulted; the Journals World record reports an h-index of 11.

How can I be sure I have the right IJSSRR? Match all three identifiers before submitting or citing: the full title International Journal of Social Science Research and Review, ISSN 2700-2497, and the domain ijssrr.com. Several unrelated journals use the same initials, and at least one uses a nearly identical title with a different ISSN, so initials alone are never a safe identifier for this journal.

Sources and Basis of This Profile

This profile is based on the journal's own website at ijssrr.com (current issue Volume 9, Issue 10, October 2026; policy, fees and indexing page structure; ISSN displayed on the site), on a documented article from Volume 2, Issue 4 (December 2019), and on the Journals World record for the title (ISSN, country code, h-index and subject analysis). The country-attribution discrepancy described above is reported from that comparison. Fee amounts and indexing lists, which change over time, were deliberately not quoted from secondary summaries and should be read on the journal's live pages.