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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021)
Published: 2021-09-15

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About the Journal

Trends in Humanities and Social Sciences (THSS) is a quarterly double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal devoted to the publication of high-quality papers, letters, reviews, interviews, and communications. THSS publishes theoretical, empirical and experimental research in the fields of humanities and social sciences including education, psychology, and management. THSS offers an intellectual platform to academic researchers, social scientists, professors and research scholars for publishing and disseminating their original scholarly works. It aims to promote the culture of quality research in the field of humanities and social sciences. To this end, THSS accepts papers and letters often recognised as critical communications on meritorious and competitive basis. The journal word limit is 1500 to 6000 words. You can submit your manuscript to thss@gta.org.uk.

This journal is a serial publication uniquely identified by an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN:  2754-0855) serial number certificate issued by The British Library. All the research works are uniquely identified by a CrossRef DOI digital object identifier supplied by indexing and repository platforms.

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THSS Highlights

Cover Letter

The format of the compulsory cover letter forms part of your submission. It is located on the first page of your manuscript and should always be presented in English. You should provide the following elements:
  • Full title: Specific, descriptive, concise, and comprehensible to readers outside the field, max 95 characters (including spaces).
  • Full author details: The title(s), full name(s), position(s), affiliation(s) and contact details (postal address, email, telephone, highest academic degree, Open Researcher and Contributor Identification (ORCID) and cell phone number) of each author.
  • Corresponding author: Identify to whom all correspondence should be addressed.
  • Authors’ contributions: Briefly summarise the nature of the contribution made by each of the authors listed.
  • Disclaimer: A statement that the views expressed in the submitted article are his or her own and not an official position of the institution or funder.
  • Source(s) of support: These include grants, equipment, and/or other support that facilitated conduct of the work described in the article or the writing of the article itself.
  • Summary: Lastly, a list containing the number of words, pages, tables, figures and/or other supplementary material should accompany the submission.

Anyone that has made a significant contribution to the research and the paper must be listed as an author in your cover letter. Contributions that fall short of meeting the criteria as stipulated in our policy should rather be mentioned in the ‘Acknowledgements’ section of the manuscript.

English Language Editing

THSS recommends that your manuscript be professionally edited prior to submission. THSS authors will receive a 15% discount off the language editing services provided by Global Talent Academy. Please note that you should avoid making additional changes to your manuscript after receiving the edited version, as grammatical errors maybe introduced. For more detailed information, you may contact support@gta.org.uk.

Plagiarism

The publisher and journal have a policy of “Zero Tolerance on the Plagiarism”. We check the plagiarism issue through two methods: reviewer check and plagiarism prevention tool (ithenticate.com).

All submissions will be checked by iThenticate before being sent to reviewers.

e-Version FirstTM

e-Version First is a feature offered through the journal platform. It allows PDF version of manuscripts that have been peer reviewed and accepted to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final printed journal. Readers can freely access or cite the article.

We aim to publish accepted manuscripts in e-Version First in two weeks' time after the final draft completed.