About the Journal

The American Journal of Qualitative Research (AJQR) is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to advancing qualitative research across the social sciences and related fields. Published quarterly, AJQR provides a scholarly platform for original qualitative research, methodological contributions, and interdisciplinary perspectives. The journal welcomes high-quality scholarship from a broad range of disciplines, including education, psychology, sociology, health and social sciences, criminology and criminal justice, political science, public administration, organizational studies, and other fields in which qualitative inquiry plays a significant role.

AJQR serves an international community of researchers, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers by providing a forum for scholarly dialogue and the advancement of qualitative inquiry. The journal welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide and encourages research representing different disciplinary, cultural, national, theoretical, and methodological perspectives.

Publication Frequency & DOI

AJQR publishes four issues annually in February, May, August, and November. To facilitate the timely dissemination of research, accepted manuscripts are published online as Online First (Advance Online Publications) immediately after completing the editorial and production process, prior to their assignment to a scheduled issue. In addition to its regular quarterly issues, special issues may be published throughout the year based on the quality, volume, and relevance of submissions.

AJQR assigns a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to each published article. DOI is a unique access number that enables the identification and accessibility of each article published electronically. It is mandatory that each article published in AJQR or in the early release is assigned a DOI number.

Global or Self Plagiarism

Authors cannot use other researchers’ opinions or thoughts as their own. Similarly, authors cannot use thoughts, opinions, and parts of research from their own previous work without citing them properly. All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking. Editors check the plagiarism detection of articles in this journal by using Turnitin and/or Grammarly software.

After acceptance, the manuscripts are checked for plagiarism and bibliography and ready for publication and are given a DOI number by the Editorial Board.