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 electronic content of the journal is archived in two ways:
1) 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 another server as a backup. In case of a problem on the journal website and the information of the articles is lost, each of the article will be published online on the journal's website from the backup server in less than 24-36 hours.
2) All issues published in the journal are also archived in these two databases, and in case the journal's website doesn’t work, the articles will be available through it:
· Internet Archive
· Iran Scientific Journals System
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. Personal archive All authors can archive their articles immediately after publication on the journal website, in their personal system or on their institution website.
Open Access Policy
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. 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
Licensing
The journal is fully compliant with open access mandates, by publishing its articles under "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0).
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 this email address: "mehdi.salehi@um.ac.ir" or contact the publisher through fumpress@um.ac.ir and they will deal with the matter 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.
Ownership and management
This journal was launched and managed by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in cooperation with the Iranian Association of Islamic Finance, which is also clearly listed on the main page of the journal website. Advisory body The members of the editorial board of this journal are in the field of subject areas included in the Aim and Scope of the journal. Full details and organizational affiliation of the editorial board members are listed on the website of the journal. The list of members is updated. This journal in cooperation with the publisher reviews the members of its editorial board regularly to ensure that they are appropriate and relevant.
Article Processing Charges
Iranian Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (IJAAF) doesn't have any submission and article processing charges (APCs). It means there are no publication fees for authors and readers.
Discount policy
There is not any discounting policy in this journal because there aren’t any Article Processing Charges (APC).
Other revenue
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as the publisher, by paying the defined budget for each published issue of the journal (according to the rank of the journal in the annual evaluation of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology), the related costs include setting up and maintaining the infrastructure of the journal, peer reviewing process, editing and archiving of articles. Advertising This publication does not accept any advertisements. Direct marketing There is no direct marketing activity in this journal.
Plagiarism
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.
Privacy statement
The names and email addresses provided on the journal's website are solely used for journal-related purposes. They are not accessible to other sections and will not be shared with any individual or organization.