Aim
The African Research Journal of Education and Social Sciences (ISSN: 2312-0134) is a scholarly peer reviewed online quarterly journal whose principal aim is to publish scientic works geared towards theory development, policy formulation and action plan.
Scope
The journal accepts manuscripts in the fields of Education and Social sciences in Africa’s context. The work must be well researched, informed and demonstrate familiarity with the relevant literature and key concept informing the study. The journal accepts various types of works including original research papers, review articles, case studies, or theoretical papers.
Format
The basic outline of publishing a research article with ARJESS includes Abstract (100-200 words + keywords), introduction (incorporating a concise background to the study, statement of problem and thesis statement), methodology, results, discussion and conclusions. The journal adopts IMRaD (Introduction, Methods, Research and Discussion & Conclusion) scientific writing format of scholarly papers. See past publications.
ARJESS accepts articles that are between 2,500-3,500 words in length (5-7). The articles should be in English, in Microsoft Word, Times Roman, Size 12, Single spacing.
The style of writing may be in any consistent format such as APA, Harvard system, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, etc). The journal encourages authors to use DOI (Digital Object Identifier) for sources where suitable. Images (figures and tables) should be in-line (within document) and not more than 700 pixels. As much as possible, try to minimize the use of images or ensure you have a copyright to use the images.
Paper Submission
The Journal’s Editor-in-Chief informs the author of the decision on his/her manuscript within 24 hours of submission. Following acceptance, an article is normally published online in the issue of that month or the following month. An hyperlink and an electronic copy (.pdf) of the published article is sent to the corresponding author’s email.
Submissions: Throughout the year/ ongoing; Issue release in April, August and December
Submitted research paper(s) should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines for authors and other details that are available. Read Author Guidelines. Submit your paper to: arjessjournal(at)gmail.com
Open Access
One paramount request of researchers across the world is open access to research publications. ARJESS is fully committed to providing free access to all articles as soon as they are published. We ask you to support this initiative by publishing your research articles and papers in this journal. ARJESS is indexed in Google Scholar, Yahoo, Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD) among other indexing bodies.
Licensing
All works in this journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Under this license, the users are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work and to remix, that is to adapt the work under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
- share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
JOURNAL INDEXING
Journal Abbreviated key-title: Afr. res. j. educ. soc. sci.
ISSN: 2312-0134
Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCES
Subject: EDUCATION
Publisher: ARJESS
Dates of publication: 2014 – Current
Frequency: Quarterly
Language: English
Medium: Online
Indexed by: 
