In this scientific journal, after the article is accepted, the type of article is included on the first page of each article. It is worth noting that after the article is proposed in the editorial board meeting, the scientific rank of each article    (research, promotion, review) is determined and announced to the author of the article.

•  Journal title: Quranic Studies and Islamic Culture
• Country: Iran
• Publisher: Iranian Society for Quranic Studies and Islamic Culture
• Category: Quranic Studies
• Type of published articles: Research, promotional, review (according to the regulations of the Journals Commission of the Ministry of Science, Article 2, Clause 6 on the first page of each article).
• Month and year of publication: 2017
• Credit of the journal: Scientific
• Language: Persian - English (English Abstract)
• Journal Frequency: quarterly
• Format: Printed & Online
• The cost of reviewing and publishing the article: there is an expense
• Period of initial review of articles: 10 days
• Process of Review: Double-Blind Review
• Review Time: 3 to 6 months
• Acceptance percentage of articles: 15%
• Use of similarity search before sending to arbitration: Yes (Samim Noor)
• Access to Articles: Free (Open Access) & Full Text
• The rating of the publication based on the latest assessment of the Ministry of Science: B (Scientific Publications Portal)
• Indexed: Yes
• Status in ISC: Q3 (Details)

License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 Open Access Policy

All articles of the Journal are Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). That means you are free to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

 Copyright: Under open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly.

Peer-Review Policy
The peer review process in journal is double-blinded in which the reviewer’s name is unknown to the author and, vice versa.
Submitted articles go through a structural and subject evaluation to align with journal principles. Matches go through a double-blind peer review by three field experts (non-editorial staff) chosen by the Board based on specialty. The Board makes the final article selection.
Duties of Reviewers:
- Assist editor in decision-making and potentially help authors improve papers through editorial communication.
- Decline reviews if unqualified or unable to promptly review.
- Treat manuscripts as confidential documents and avoid unauthorized sharing.
- Conduct objective reviews, avoiding personal criticism and providing clear, supported feedback.
- Identify relevant, uncited published work and report potential plagiarism or overlap with other publications.
- Maintain confidentiality of information and ideas, avoiding personal gain or reviewing papers with conflicts of interest.

Self-archiving policies for authors: 
Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in this Journal as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website

Scope and aims of the Journal:

The Holy Quran and its teachings are the original origin and source of Islamic culture, and all religious sects, schools of thought and even social currents in the ups and downs history of Islam have based their way of thinking and understanding on its reading and understanding.  In fact, all the components of Islamic culture, including beliefs, values, symbols, norms, customs and traditions of Islam originate from Quranic teachings.

"Quranic Studies and Islamic Culture" magazine welcomes the acceptance of articles with the following features, considering the necessity of assigning the approaches of the magazine:

1- Quranic studies with a literary-linguistic approach

2- Quranic studies with a historical approach

3- Quranic studies with the approach of Iranian Islamic culture