Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty
Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Journal of ASAP) is an open access international multidisciplinary journal published under the ISSN 2690-3458 (electronic edition) and ISSN 2690-3431 (print edition) by Academics Stand Against Poverty, a non-profit organization based in United States (EIN # 32-0324998). Its mission is to publish high-quality work that can make genuine contributions to understanding and eradicating poverty and its effects in the real world. Such work will address the structural causes of poverty with an eye to the special challenges poor people face in such areas as nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications. Journal ASAP is committed to ensuring that perspectives of the poor are adequately represented on its pages, and that these pages are accessible to all. The journal makes substantial efforts to include voices from the global South as well as from non-elite educational institutions and from organizations, agencies and communities that are working toward poverty eradication. It also aims for the widest possible reach by being entirely open-access: its one/two issues each year are free for download anywhere in the world without any requirement to provide personal information. Journal ASAP invites submission of original work and maintains a rigorous double-blind peer review system that provides constructive feedback to assist authors in presenting their work in a way that is clear, broadly accessible and practically useful. Journal ASAP is a pure Open Access Journal and allows the author to retain the copyright in their articles. Articles are made available under a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY) to allow others to freely access, copy and use research provided the author is correctly attributed.
Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty
Academics Stand Against Poverty
Journal profile
Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty
Academics Stand Against Poverty
Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Journal of ASAP) is an open access international multidisciplinary journal published under the ISSN 2690-3458 (electronic edition) and ISSN 2690-3431 (print edition) by Academics Stand Against Poverty, a non-profit organization based in United States (EIN # 32-0324998). Its mission is to publish high-quality work that can make genuine contributions to understanding and eradicating poverty and its effects in the real world. Such work will address the structural causes of poverty with an eye to the special challenges poor people face in such areas as nutrition, water, shelter, health and health care, sanitation, clothing and personal care, energy, education, social and political participation and respect, physical safety, family planning, environmental degradations and hazards, working conditions in employment and at home, navigating governmental agencies and the legal system, banking and credit, travel and transportation, and communications. Journal ASAP is committed to ensuring that perspectives of the poor are adequately represented on its pages, and that these pages are accessible to all. The journal makes substantial efforts to include voices from the global South as well as from non-elite educational institutions and from organizations, agencies and communities that are working toward poverty eradication. It also aims for the widest possible reach by being entirely open-access: its one/two issues each year are free for download anywhere in the world without any requirement to provide personal information. Journal ASAP invites submission of original work and maintains a rigorous double-blind peer review system that provides constructive feedback to assist authors in presenting their work in a way that is clear, broadly accessible and practically useful. Journal ASAP is a pure Open Access Journal and allows the author to retain the copyright in their articles. Articles are made available under a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY) to allow others to freely access, copy and use research provided the author is correctly attributed.
- Access
- open
- Articles
- 58
- Issues
- 9
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Peer Review
Review Process
- Journal of Academics Stand Against Poverty states its review model in its public policies.
- Editors screen submissions for scope, completeness, anonymisation, originality, research readiness, and ethics before peer review.
- Suitable research manuscripts are normally reviewed by at least two independent reviewers with relevant expertise.
- Reviewers are selected by the editorial team and must not have known conflicts of interest with the manuscript, authors, institutions, funders, or research topic.
- The handling editor or Editor-in-Chief makes the final editorial decision after considering reviewer reports, journal fit, ethical compliance, originality, methodological quality, clarity, and contribution to the field.
- Reviewer recommendations inform but do not determine the final decision, and no acceptance is guaranteed.
- Decision outcomes are accept, minor revision, major revision, or reject.
Exceptions, Conflicts, Supplements, and Delays
Editors may desk reject submissions that are out of scope, incomplete, insufficiently anonymised, previously published, ethically deficient, or unlikely to meet the journal standard after review.
Submissions from editors, editorial board members, guest editors, or individuals with a close relationship to the journal are handled by an independent editor who has no conflict of interest. Such submissions follow the same peer-review standards as other manuscripts.
Authors may suggest potential reviewers, but the journal is not obliged to use them. Authors may also identify reviewers they believe may have a conflict of interest; the editorial team will consider such requests but retains final responsibility for reviewer selection.
Supplementary material may be considered during peer review where it supports the scholarly claims of the manuscript. Special issue papers follow the same peer-review standards.
Reviewer reports are treated as confidential, are not published, and reviewers are not named unless a different arrangement is explicitly approved by the journal.
Authors are informed when review is delayed. Appeals must identify a procedural error, factual misunderstanding, or evidence that materially affects the decision.