About the Journal

Focus and field
The Journal of Studies and Research on Organized Crime is a quarterly, open-access journal dedicated to studies on national and international organized crime and institutional and civil forms of countering it.

The Journal has been recognized as a Scientific Journal in the following disciplinary areas: Historical, Philosophical and Pedagogical Sciences (Area 11); Legal Sciences (Area 12); Political and Social Sciences (Area 14).

 

Peer Review Process
The evaluation is carried out by two referees, an internal member of the Editorial Board and an external expert. The editorial board sends the contribution to the external referee, taking care to eliminate the names of the authors. The judgment that both referees formulate on the contribution and any suggestions are sent, always anonymously, to the author. In case of different evaluation, the final decision is up to the Director of the Journal.

 

Open Access Policy
This journal provides open access to its content, following a Diamond Open Access model.

 

Creative Commons License
Journal contents are under a Creative Commons Attribution - Share alike 4.0 International License.
Preprint and postprint version of the articles can be archived anywhere under the same license.

 

Archiving
The Journal has activated the PKP PN (Preservation Network) service in order to preserve digital contents by transferring them to the LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) project.

 

Anti-plagiarism measures
The editors have the task of acting promptly in the event of mistakes and incorrect behaviour, ascertained or presumed, both in relation to published contributions and those yet to be published. In case of mistakes, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, in the published articles or during the publication process, the appropriate measures will be taken, following the recommendations and guidelines of COPE. Corrections will take place with due prominence, including the publication of an erratum (errors in the publication process), rectification (errors by the authors) or, in the most serious cases, the withdrawal of the work concerned. Retracted documents will be kept online and will be prominently marked as retracted in all online versions, including the PDF, to ensure transparency to readers.

iThenticate
The journal performs a Similarity Check on the submissions received, through iThenticate software.

 

Publishing costs
The Journal does not include costs of publication or processing of articles.

 

Authors' rights
The authors keep the copyright on their works, giving the right of publication to the Journal on a non-exclusive basis.

 

Indexing
The Journal is indexed by the following search engines:
- DOAJ
-Pleiadi
-Scholar