Aim and Scope

Social Sciences Spectrum (ISSN 3006-0419, E-ISSN: 3006-0427) is an international, peer-reviewed, quick-refereeing open-access journal published online Quarterly by the Centre for Children Literacy and Lifelong Learning. The journal seeks to appeal to an interdisciplinary audience and authorship that focuses on real-world research.

It attracts papers from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, criminology, geography, history, political science, psychology, social policy, social work, sociology, and more. With its efficient and qualified double-blind peer review process, Social Sciences Spectrum aims to present the newest relevant and emerging scholarship in the field to both academia and the broader public alike, thereby maintaining its place as a dynamic platform for engaging in social sciences research and academic debate. The journal welcomes original research articles, theoretical and conceptual papers, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and case studies related to but not limited to:

Subject Areas

  • Anthropology
  • Business and Enterpenureship  
  • Commerce, Finance, and Marketing
  • Communication Studies and Journalism
  • Criminology
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Environmental and Cultural Studies
  • Geography
  • History and Archaeology
  • Law and Jurisprudence
  • Library and Information Sciences
  • Linguistics and Literature
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Psychology (Applied & Clinical)
  • Social and Public Policy
  • Sociology and Social Work
  • Other related areas

Publication Ethics Statement

Centre for Children Literacy and Lifelong Learning, Publisher of the Social Sciences Spectrum follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure high-quality scientific works in the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The journal body takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero-tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use Turnitin.

Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Social Sciences Spectrum will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). The journal will insert the following note at the bottom of the title page of each published article:

© 2025 by the authors. Licensee Jabbar, Kashif, Akbar. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).