ESTEEM JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Introduced in 2017, ESTEEM Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities is an official journal of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Cawangan Pulau Pinang with a registered e-ISSN 2600-7274. It is an open-access journal which published articles both in English and Bahasa Malaysia. Initially, it published once a year from January 2017 to December 2020, but revised its publication frequency to twice a year starting January 2021. The journal adheres to traditional standards of double-blind peer review with current acceptance rate of 30 percent. Currently, the journal does not charge any article processing fees for manuscript submitted personally by authors.
Aim and Scope
The aim of ESTEEM Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities is to serve as a platform for scholars, practitioners, and policy makers to exchange new knowledge and ideas in areas related to social sciences and humanities. The journal provides an avenue for scholars and practitioners to document unpublished original manuscripts related to emerging issues, sustainable developments and trends that examine public wellbeing, people integration and interaction, cultural identity, policy and governance, and its influences on the world around them. Specifically, the journal aims to provide new knowledge on the relationships between individuals and societies, as well as the operation and progression of societies in the 21st century.
Authors are invited to submit high quality manuscripts related to social sciences and humanities for blind peer-review. The topics include but not limited to those that investigate emerging issues, trends and challenges that shape individuals’ perceptions, attitudes and behaviours across societies, businesses, industries and governments worldwide. As the journal covers two separate but interrelated areas of social sciences and humanities, authors are welcomed to submit manuscripts that systematically investigate questions around humanities development namely language, linguistics, culture, arts, religion, health and wellbeing. For social sciences, the journal invites manuscripts that are related to human psychology and sociology in areas of education, law, political science, business, hospitality, among others. Interested authors have to submit their manuscripts via the EJSSH Open Journal System. https://journal.uitm.edu.my/ojs/index.php/EJSSH/login
Frequency of Publication
January 2017 to December 2020: ONE (1) volume ONE (1) issue per year, published in November.
January 2021 to present: ONE (1) volume TWO (2) issues per year, published in April and September.
The publication frequency of the journal does not include special issues.
Peer Review Process
ESTEEM Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities relies on effective peer review processes to uphold not only the quality and validity of individual articles, but also the overall integrity of the journal. To maintain the quality, the journal practices a double-blind blind review consisting of at least two to three peer reviewers per manuscript. All reviewers from various expertise are on voluntary basic. Throughout the double-blind review process, the editors hide both reviewer and author(s) identities from one another. To facilitate this, the editors need to ensure that the manuscripts are processed in a way that does not give away the identity of its author(s). The editors make sure that the manuscript does not include names or affiliations of the author(s). This ensures the manuscript is judged fairly, keeping bias out of the equation. Both author(s) and reviewer also benefit from some degree of protection against criticism.
