About LGJSS
Publisher Responsibilities
The Litera Global Journal of Social Science (LGJSS) is published by Indo Global Publishing House, an independent academic publisher committed to promoting excellence in scholarly communication through ethical, transparent, and high-quality publishing practices. The Publisher works closely with the Editorial Board, reviewers, authors, and readers to ensure that every stage of the publication process adheres to internationally accepted standards of research integrity, editorial excellence, and responsible scholarly publishing.
The Publisher is responsible for:
- Publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed research that contributes to the advancement of the social sciences, humanities, commerce, management, education, law, public policy, and interdisciplinary social science research.
- Safeguarding the editorial independence of LGJSS by ensuring that editorial decisions are based solely on the scholarly merit, originality, methodological quality, academic significance, ethical compliance, and relevance of submitted manuscripts.
- Providing a secure, reliable, and efficient publishing platform for manuscript submission, editorial management, peer review, production, online publication, DOI registration, and long-term digital preservation.
- Supporting a fair, transparent, confidential, and unbiased double-blind peer-review process in collaboration with the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Editorial Board, and independent reviewers.
- Ensuring compliance with publication ethics by implementing policies related to plagiarism prevention, copyright, licensing, authorship, conflicts of interest, research integrity, AI use, data transparency, and ethical approval where applicable.
- Investigating allegations of publication misconduct, including plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication or falsification, unethical research practices, authorship disputes, citation manipulation, peer-review misconduct, and other ethical concerns in accordance with internationally recognized publication ethics and best practices.
- Publishing corrections, errata, corrigenda, expressions of concern, or retractions whenever necessary to preserve the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of the scholarly record.
- Maintaining accurate article metadata, DOI registration, indexing information, citation records, and digital accessibility to maximize the visibility, discoverability, and long-term impact of published research.
- Promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, academic freedom, and equal opportunity throughout the editorial and publication process without discrimination based on nationality, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, institutional affiliation, religion, political beliefs, or any other non-academic factors.
- Regularly reviewing and updating journal policies, editorial procedures, ethical guidelines, and publication standards to align with internationally recognized best practices in scholarly publishing and advances in digital publishing technologies.
- Preserving all published content through appropriate digital archiving systems and ensuring the long-term accessibility, integrity, and permanence of scholarly articles.
- Supporting continuous improvement in editorial quality, publication standards, digital publishing technologies, and international collaboration to strengthen the global reputation, academic impact, and scholarly excellence of LGJSS.
- Encouraging the dissemination of innovative and evidence-based social science research that addresses contemporary social, economic, political, cultural, educational, and developmental challenges; supports informed policymaking; promotes sustainable development; and contributes to societal well-being.
- Supporting international visibility and indexing initiatives by continuously working toward inclusion in reputable abstracting and indexing databases while ensuring compliance with their quality, editorial, and ethical standards.
Indo Global Publishing House is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of scholarly publishing and supporting the mission of the Litera Global Journal of Social Science (LGJSS) by publishing reliable, ethical, innovative, and impactful research that advances social science scholarship, evidence-based policymaking, sustainable development, interdisciplinary collaboration, and global academic knowledge exchange.
Publisher website: www.indoglobaljournals.com
