Publishing Information

PUBLICATION FEE

The Social and Psychology Research Journal (SPRJ) is a fully open-access journal and does not charge any fees at any stage:

  • No submission fees

  • No article processing charges (APCs)

  • No publication or page charges. All costs for peer review, editorial processing, and online publication are covered by the publisher.

 

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

SPRJ publishes two issues per year: April and November, following a continuous submission model; accepted articles are scheduled for the next available issue.

 

GENERATIVE AI POLICY

This policy aims to ensure transparency, academic integrity, accountability, and ethical standards in the use of GenAI throughout the manuscript submission, peer review, editorial, and publication processes. This policy applies to authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial staff involved in SPRJ.

Authors are encouraged to not use any Gen AI. When necessary, GenAI may be used only as supportive aid, such as for improving grammar, spelling, and language clarity, formatting assistance, summarizing text for internal drafting purposes, enhancing readability or structure without altering scientific meaning.

GenAI tools must not be used to generate original research data, results, or analyses, fabricate or manipulate data, references, citations, or sources, replace critical intellectual contributions, scientific reasoning, or interpretation, produce entire manuscripts or substantial sections without human authorship, generate images, tables, or figures that misrepresent data or findings. GenAI tools cannot be listed as authors under any circumstances.

Authors are required to explicitly disclose the use of any GenAI or AI-assisted tools during manuscript preparation. Disclosure must include the name of the tool(s) used, the purpose of use (e.g., language editing, drafting assistance), confirmation that authors retain full responsibility for the content. This disclosure should appear in a dedicated “AI Use Statement” or “Acknowledgments” section of the manuscript. Failure to disclose GenAI use may be considered a breach of publication ethics.