About the Journal
Editorial Rigour and Process
ATRAS adheres to exacting academic standards through a meticulous peer-review protocol. Upon provisional editorial acceptance, manuscripts undergo a comprehensive evaluation process, typically requiring between 15 days and two months, ensuring both scholarly integrity and timely dissemination. ATRAS is fundamentally committed to upholding principles of transparency, intellectual integrity, and universal accessibility within scholarly communication, thereby facilitating the global dissemination of significant research.
Comprehensive Disciplinary Coverage
ATRAS encompasses a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary scholarship, including, but not restricted to, the following domains:
- Language Studies: Investigation of language-culture interfaces, grammatical systems, syntactic structures, phonetics, morphological analysis, semantic theory, discourse analysis, and diachronic linguistics.
- Linguistics: Exploration spanning micro-linguistic and macro-linguistic paradigms, applied linguistics, translation studies, contrastive analysis, language pedagogy, cognitive linguistics, linguistic anthropology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, phonological theory, semiotics, epigraphy, and palaeography.
- Applied Linguistics: Research on language teaching methodologies, lexicographical practice, applied phonetics, sociolinguistic applications, development of international and specialized languages, medical linguistics, graphology, and applied ethnolinguistics.
- Literary Studies: Critical inquiry into literary theory, poetry, prose fiction, the essay tradition, dramatic literature, the novel, and philology.
- Cultural Studies: Examination of cross-cultural phenomena, artistic expression, language policy, religious studies, customary practices, humanities scholarship, archaeology, philosophical inquiry, historiography, and the cultural dimensions of tourism.
- Translation Studies: Theoretical frameworks and practical applications in translation, contrastive methodologies, translation technologies, terminological management, literary and audiovisual translation, interpretation studies, AI and translation, and the socio-cultural role of translation.
- Sociology: Analysis of social structures, institutional dynamics, social change, stratification systems, deviance, globalization processes, gender relations, sociology of education and health, political sociology, economic sociology, environmental sociology, cultural sociology, digital societies, and ethnographic research.
- Psychology: Scholarly investigation into cognitive processes, behavioral analysis, clinical psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, neuropsychology, forensic psychology, health psychology, educational psychology, occupational psychology, personality theory, psychometrics, therapeutic interventions, and positive psychology.
ATRAS operates under a financially barrier-free publication model. The journal imposes no article processing charges (APCs), submission fees, or any associated publication costs upon authors. This commitment to cost-free scholarly dissemination is enabled through institutional subsidization.
- Publication Charges: Free
- Article Processing Charges (APCs): No
- Submission Charges: No
As an open-access publication, ATRAS ensures that all content remains universally accessible without financial encumbrances to authors or readers, aligning with its mission of promoting equitable knowledge exchange.
Open Access Policy
ATRAS Journal operates as an open-access publication, providing immediate, unrestricted, and perpetual online access to all scholarly content without embargo. This model satisfies the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) definition: all articles are freely available on public internet platforms, permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, and utilize the work for any lawful purpose. The journal thereby eliminates financial, legal, and technical barriers to knowledge dissemination, aligning with international principles of open science.
Indexing and Abstracting
ISSN Portal & ROAD
Link to ISSN Portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2710-8759
Link to ROAD: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2992-1376
Algerian Scientific Journal Platform (ASJP)
Link: https://asjp.cerist.dz/en/PresentationRevue/880
Mir@bel
Link: https://reseau-mirabel.info/revue/20505/Atras-Journal-A-J
Link: https://miar.ub.edu/issn/2710-8759
Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=We2xfawAAAAJ&hl=en
Link: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/atras
Editorial Policies
Copyright Retention
Authors retain full and unrestricted copyright to their published works. Publication in ATRAS constitutes a non-exclusive distribution license granted to the journal, preserving authors' rights to reuse, deposit, and share their scholarship without limitation.
Protecting Authors’ Rights
The copyright aims to protect the way an article has been written, describing an experiment and its results. ATRAS Journal is dedicated to safeguarding its authors’ work and reputation, taking all allegations of infringement, plagiarism, ethical disputes, and fraud with the utmost seriousness.
Plagiarism Detection
ATRAS strictly adheres to international plagiarism policies. The editorial team takes comprehensive measures to prevent plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. To ensure the originality of submitted manuscripts, the plagiarism detection software Plagiarism Checker X is employed. Every manuscript undergoes a plagiarism screening prior to the peer review process. A designated secretary is responsible for conducting these initial checks. Additionally, the final versions of accepted papers are reviewed once more for plagiarism to ensure compliance.
Publication Policy
ATRAS Journal is committed to upholding high standards of ethical considerations and adheres to the principles and best practices in publishing as outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The papers submitted to the journal must be in line with the journal’s aim and scope. The journal accepts only papers that have not been published, are not under consideration for publication elsewhere, or are not currently under evaluation in any other journal.
Changing the name of the corresponding author or the order of the authors (omission, change, or addition) requires signed permission by all the authors of the paper.
The journal does not accept papers that contain plagiarized content or any other form of academic misconduct, including duplication, fraudulent authorship, data fabrication, copyright infringement, or conflicts of interest. All submitted manuscripts must adhere to accepted ethical standards. Any paper that violates these standards will be removed from the publication. Authors are also responsible for any falsification or fabrication attempt.
Publication Decision
The editor of ATRAS Journal is responsible for deciding whether to publish a paper or decline it. The validation of the work and its importance to researchers and readers should be put at the centre of the editor’s deliberation. The editor should be guided by the policies of the journal and the editorial board and should enforce them regarding copyright infringement and plagiarism. To ensure the quality of the published papers, all manuscripts will undergo a plagiarism check assigned by the journal editor.
Peer Review Process Policy
ATRAS Journal follows a double-blind peer review process. This means that it follows a blinded review where the author’s name is concealed from the reviewer and vice versa.
The submission and review processes take place at the Algerian Scientific Journal Platforms (ASJP).
Link: https://www.asjp.cerist.dz/en/PresentationRevue/880
Authors are also encouraged to submit their papers via email to the journal’s editor in case they encounter problems at the platform level.
Objectives of Peer Review
-To assess the quality of the paper before publication. Is it an original contribution? What are the suggested comments to improve the paper so that it can gain visibility after publication?
-To provide experts with an assessment of the quality and soundness of the submission after the review.
-To give guidance to the editorial decision maker to make an objective decision on whether to accept, accept subject to change, or reject.
-To guide the authors to improve the quality of their papers.
Retraction Policy
If the paper contains any intellectual theft or any type of manipulation after publication, it will be retracted, and the author will be blacklisted. The author will take the whole responsibility. A letter containing the retraction reasons will be sent to the author and his/ her institution.
Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
The editor, executive editors, and editorial board should not use any unpublished materials from the unpublished manuscripts in their own research without the express written consent of the author.
The editor should not be involved in decisions regarding any paper submitted by him/herself or any other member of the editorial board. As with all papers submitted to the journal, such a paper should follow all the usual procedures of the journal (plagiarism checking, reviewing, and editing). The editor should follow ICMJE guidelines on disclosure of potential conflicts of interest by authors and reviewers.
Reviewers must keep the information or any ideas obtained through the peer review confidential and not use them for personal benefit. They avoid any conflict of interest with authors in making decisions concerning accepting or rejecting a paper.
Authors should disclose any financial or other conflicts of interest that may influence the results and interpretation of the manuscript. The authors should acknowledge all financial support.
Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered into the journal system will be used for the stated purposes of the journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Informed Consent Policy
Before starting research, the researcher should obtain approval from their institution. Data and information about people who participated in data collection must be handled with high levels of confidence. Therefore, researchers should obtain written informed consent from authors before initiating data collection procedures, unless the study is conducted in fields that do not require an informed consent policy, such as the study of literature. It should contain a clear and concise description of the research. The following information should appear in the informed consent:
- The main aim of the study
- The expected results
- The target population
- The significance of the result
- Instructions that the participants must follow
- Any risk or discomfort that may affect the participants.
– The decision to participate is voluntary, and the participants have the right to refuse or withdraw from the experiment without losing any benefits from the consent form.
– an approximate number of participants actively involved in the research
Advertising Policy
The publisher and the editorial board of ATRAS Journal prohibit any form of commercial advertisements. This policy remains in its current status until the editorial board revises the journal’s policy.
Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Submission/Publication
Authors should not publish a paper that describes the same research in more than one journal. Besides, submitting the same paper to more than one journal constitutes an unethical publishing practice. An author also has yet to submit a paper for publication that was previously published in another journal.
The Use of AI in Writing
By September 2024, ATRAS will introduce a new policy about the use of AI content generators. The aim of the journal behind introducing this new policy is to enhance transparency and provide guidance to all those involved in the creation process, including authors, editors, reviewers, readers, and contributors.
The use of AI is only restricted to enhancing the language and readability of authors’ works. To disclose the use of generative AI in the writing process, authors must add a statement to the end of the paper under a new section called “Declaration of AI use”, and before the list of references.
ATRAS will continue to adapt and refine its policy on the use of AI tools in writing. According to the COPE position statement on the response to AI tools:
ATRAS’ editor reserves the right to reject or withdraw the manuscript directly if the use of AI tools in the manuscript is concealed.
AI tools can not be listed as authors or co-authors of papers. Because they cannot be held responsible for the submissions, and cannot manage copyright and licensing agreements.
Authors who use AI tools in their submissions (including but not limited to: during the writing of the article or when collecting and analysing data) must be transparent in disclosing in the Methods or acknowledgements section of the paper how the AI tool was used and which tool was used.
Authors are fully responsible for the content of their manuscript, including but not limited to: sections produced by an AI tool or data analysed using AI tools in the research process.