Journal of Comparative Law

About Journal

The Journal of Comparative Law has officially started its activity in November 2012 with the aim of disseminating and publishing researches and researches, helping to develop and upgrade knowledge and providing a suitable ground for exchanging ideas and information between the university and research centers of the country and publishing it. According to the agreement No. 91/28446 dated 20/12/2012, the Press Supervisory Board of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The Journal of Comparative Law, based on the regulations of scientific journals approved on 02/09/2013, "succeeded in obtaining the rank of" C "in the evaluation process of the Scientific Journals Commission of the Ministry of Science in 2020" and is also on the list of scientific journals approved by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Has taken and now has a scientific privilege. Also, according to the recently concluded memorandum of understanding, all the articles that will be published in this journal will be the result of the interaction and joint activity of "University of Mazandaran " and "Iranian Judicial Sciences Association". It should be noted that the subject matter of the journal is "All branches of jurisprudence, including private law, criminal law, public law and international law, and its subdivisions through the application of Iranian law and foreign law, especially Roman-German law and common law." "It is also a comparison between national law and transnational law." Submissions will be evaluated by at least three judges; Also, the arbitration period will be at least ten and at most sixty days. Dear authors, you are asked to arrange the articles according to the formal and substantive principles of the journal. Also, before submitting the article, it is necessary to first register in the ORCID system and enter the received user code in your user ID in the journal and then send it.

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Title	Journal of Comparative Law
Variant Title	Pizhūhishnāmah-i ḥuqūq-i taṭbīqī

Journal Title Acronym	Lps
ISSN	2423-7566 :: Medium: Print

Language	Persian; including English abstracts
Start Year	2015- Vol. 1, No. 1
Frequency	Quarterly Paper
Editor-in-Chief	Dr. Hamid Abhari
Director-in-Charge	Dr. Javad Taghizadeh
Place of Publication	Iran, Babolsar
Publisher	University of Mazandaran
Status	Active
Refereed	Yes; Double-Blind Peer-Review
Manuscript turnaround time of the serial publication	8 Weeks Approximately
Manuscript acceptance rate	16 %
URL	http://lps.journals.umz.ac.ir/
E-mail	pajohesh.l-p@umz.ac.ir
Type of Access	Open Access (OA)
OA Policies	SHERPA/RoMEO
Type of License	C C-BY: Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International
Open Access Statement	*Journal of Comparative Law* is a fully open-access journal, and all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. All content of the Journal is published with open access under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). This license allows users to copy and redistribute the article under the following conditions: - Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. - Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material. Benefits of open access for authors include: - Authors retain copyright to their work. - Free access for all users worldwide. - Increased visibility and readership. - No spatial constraints. - Rapid publication. No publication charges are required from the author(s).
The Policy of Screening for Plagiarism	All manuscripts must be free of content that is plagiarised. Using similarity and plagiarism detection software, manuscripts submitted to Journal of Comparative Law will be checked for plagiarism. Before submitting their manuscript to the Journal, all authors are advised to use plagiarism detection software to check for similarities. Editors check the plagiarism detection of manuscripts in Journal of Comparative Law using the iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) for English abstracts, and Iranian plagiarism detection software Samimnoor (https://samimnoor.ir) for the Persian text. Journal of Comparative Law will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism. Whenever it is determined that the manuscript has not complied with the plagiarism rules, the article will be rejected. If it has been published (after accepting), it will be removed from the published list and placed in the withdrawn list (returned articles because of failure to observe plagiarism law).
Type of Publication (Processing Charges and Publication Charges)	The journal receives 1,500,000 Rials for reviewing and judging the article and 3,500,000 Rials for editing and publishing in case of acceptance of the article. Full-text access: Open Access
Revenue Sources	Organizational and institutional support
Type of Material	Serial (Periodical)
Description	Journal of Comparative Law is an open-access, peer-reviewed quarterly Journal in Persian (with English abstracts) devoted to law and modern technologies issues. It is a quarterly scientific publication of the University of Mazandaran. It is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing original articles, review articles, etc., considering the research ethics and academic rules and regulations.
Copyright owner / Copyright holder	Authors retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights. The author has complete control over the work (e.g. retains the right to reuse, distribute, republish etc.).
Authorship	Submission of the manuscripts is only possible after obtaining permission from all of its authors and relevant authorities/institutions. Authors have been arranged in the order they will appear in the published article. Once a manuscript has been accepted for publication, all authors must sign a statement agreeing to the addition or deletion of their names. The work of all the authors is greatly appreciated. In the peer-review process, authors must retract, corrections, and amendments. All financial support and potential conflicts of interest have been disclosed. All authors must approve any changes or corrections to a published work.
COPE	Journal of Comparative Law follows the policies and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). It abides by its Code of Conduct in dealing with potential misconduct cases.
Digital Archiving Policy	Journal of Comparative Law works with some organizations, such as the Scientific Information Database of Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research Database (SID), the Iran National Library and Archives, and our server of the University of Mazandaran for maintaining our digital archive. For the long-term preservation and accessibility of academic research, this ensures that digital file formats are upgraded and converted in accordance with new technology standards.
Data Citation	Data should be cited in the same way as article, book, and web citations and authors are required to include data citations as part of their reference list. Data citation is appropriate for data held within institutional, subject focused, or general data repositories. When citing or making claims based on data, authors must refer to the data at the appropriate place in the manuscript text and, in addition, provide a formal citation in the reference list. Journal of Comparative Law follows the format proposed by the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles: Authors; Year; Dataset title; Data repository or archive; Version (if any); Persistent identifier (e.g. DOI)".
Informed Consent	Human subjects' privacy rights should not be violated without their informed consent. Names or initials should not be used in descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees unless the participant (orparent or guardian) gives written informed consent. Before publication, an identifiable participant must be shown the manuscript. After publication, authors should notify patients if any personally identifiable information will be published online or in print. ,Journal of Comparative Law or the authors, should have a copy of the participants' written consent, as required by local regulations or laws.