The Journal of Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies is an open-access academic journal published quarterly. Established in 2010 by Semnan University, the journal focuses on topics related to linguistic and rhetorical studies. It accepts original research articles, short communications, and letters to the editor in these fields. In 2017, the journal was granted scientific-research accreditation by the Commission for Scientific Journals of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology. Since 2021, the journal's publication schedule has been updated to a quarterly format.
Journal of Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies is a fully open-access journal, meaning all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. In this journal and Under open access license, authors retain unrestricted ownership of the copyright for their content under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and make derivative works only if they cite the original published article. The authors are the copyright holders in this journal and retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.
Authors retain full ownership and rights to their works without any restrictions.
Article Processing Charges (APC):
A total of 6,000,000 IRR is charged for publication, which covers peer review and printing costs:
Subscription Fees:
As an open-access electronic journal, no subscription fees are charged to readers or users.
The journal is published quarterly, releasing four issues per year. All published articles, from the journal's inception to the present, are freely accessible on the journal's official website.