The Iranian Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance (IJAAF) is an English-language, open-access, peer-reviewed journal that accepts submissions on various topics related to accounting, auditing, and finance. Since 2017, it has been published by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in cooperation with the Iranian Association of Islamic Finance. The journal publishes original research articles, review papers, short communications, case studies, and methodological studies.
Publishing schedule
The journal is published on a quarterly basis, and the table below shows the exact dates of publication for each year’s issues. The journal adheres to this publishing schedule unless exceptional circumstances arise.
Issue Date of publication
Issue 1 January
Issue 2 May
Issue 3 August
Issue 4 December
Digital preservation policy
Website Archiving
The PDF version of all articles is online and available to readers on the journal website, while a copy of the same content is kept on an alternative server as a backup. In an event of content failure, access can be restored in less than 36 hours from the backup server.
Accessible Repository
To ensure maximum accessibility by users, all published manuscript in the journal are also archived in the following repositories:
· Iran Scientific Journals System
' Islamic World Science Citation Center
Self-Archiving
Authors can archive the final version of their published articles in personal or institutional repositories.
Indexing & Archiving
The main information and abstracts of the articles published in the Iranian Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance are indexed in different databases. The list of these databases can be seen in the "Indexing and Archiving" section.
Open Access Policy
This is an open access journal which means providing unrestricted access to its content without fees or registration. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other legal purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making researches freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Copyright
Publication Ethics Policies
The Iranian Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance is a member of the International Committee on Ethics in Publication (COPE). All members of the editorial board, reviewers and authors are requested to read the statement of ethical principles for the publication of the journal and if they encounter issues such as plagiarism, manipulation of citations and falsification of data in submitted or published articles, they should discuss the matter with the editor-in-chief of the journal, Dr. Mahdi Salehi to the email addresses: "mehdi.salehi@um.ac.ir or ijaaf@um.ac.ir" the matter will be deal according to the COPE flowcharts.
Peer Review Policy
In this journal, the reviewers of the articles are not selected among the members of the editorial board of the journal, except in special circumstances when there are no external reviewers in the subject area of the article.
· All articles submitted to the journal go through the reviewing process.
· The method of reviewing articles in this journal is double-blind.
· All review procedures are explained in the “peer review process” section.
Plagiarism Policy
To avoid academic plagiarism, the Iranian Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance (IJAAF) utilizes the iThenticate system to assess all submitted articles prior to sending them to reviewers. If the similarity percentage exceeds 18%, the article is excluded from the review process.
Ownership and management
This journal was launched and managed by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in collaboration with the Iranian Association of Islamic Finance, as clearly stated in the journal's website header.
Article Processing Charges
The journal's operations are funded by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and supported by its annual ranking in the Iranian Ministry of Science's Portal of Scientific Journals. While accepted articles incur no direct costs to authors, the university's allocated budget covers operational expenses, including peer review, editing, publishing, and archiving. It means there are no publication fees for authors and readers.
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as the publisher of IJAAF, supports it for each published issue by paying a defined budget. The allocated budget includes those pertaining to setup and maintenance of the publication infrastructure, routine operation of the Journal, processing of manuscripts through peer-reviews, editing, publishing, maintaining the scholarly record, and archiving.
Privacy statement
The journal uses personal information, such as names and email addresses, solely for publication purposes and does not share this information externally. They are not accessible to other sections and will not be shared with any individual or organization.
Advertising and Marketing
The journal does not accept advertisements or engage in direct marketing activities.