About the Journal

Peer-reviewed Journal of "Contemporary Political Investigations" has been published by Institute for Human Sciences and Cultural Studies (IHCS) since the spring and summer of 2010. This journal's activities are focused on the presentation of the achievements of scientific studies of the university professors and contemporary scholars in the domain of political sciences and political thought and in the related areas (including the interdisciplinary and applied studies).

This journal has been assessed by the Commission of Scientific Journals of Ministry of Sciences, Research and Technology and based on the letter no. 3.196244 date: 2012.12.12 is recognized as peer-reviewed.

The articles are published in both Persian and English languages.

Persian Name: جستارهای سیاسی معاصر (Justārhā-yi Siyāsī-i Mu̒āṣir)
English Name: Contemporary Political Investigations


Print ISSN: 2383-1294

Online ISSN: 2383-1308

Publisher: IHCS; Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (Pizhūhishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Insānī va Muṭāli̒āt-i Farhangī)

This journal has an Open Access Journal and is published in both online and print versions so that the researchers would have an easy access to scientific articles. The online version of articles is available in the PDF format. The published articles can be downloaded free of charge. But the journal charges the authors for submission, reviewing and publishing their articles. At the moment, there is no waiver policy for charges.

The journal website provides article download statistics.

All articles are published by this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). This journal allows reuse and remixing of its content, in accordance with a CC BY license. So the authors retain unrestricted copyright and publishing rights under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).

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Authors who are published their articles by the journal agree to the following terms:

• Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Open Access
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.


Ownership and Management System
Contemporary Political Investigations (Justārhā-yi Siyāsī-i Mu̒āṣir) is owned by IHCS, Iran, and its website and journal management system was designed by SinaWeb Co.