About Journal

Journal of Clinical Psychology and Counseling Research, which has a publishing license from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, is a scientific-research journal. The material and intellectual property of this journal belongs to the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. This journal became independent from "Educational and Psychological Studies" in 2011.

Journal of Clinical Psychology and Counseling Research is published as two quarterly journals in Persian, with an extended English abstract. Based on license number 105034/11/3/19 of the Scientific Publications Commission dated 12/14/1389, it has scientific-research validity.

 

Audience

The audience of this journal consists of researchers, university academic staff, psychologists, counseling science specialists, and students of psychology, counseling, and education.

 

Article Publishing Charge

This journal does not charge a fee for submitting, reviewing, and publishing the article.

 

Discount policy

Since no fees are charged for submitting, reviewing, and publishing articles, this journal does not have a discount policy on the cost of publishing articles.

 

Open Acsess Policy

This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without requiring prior permission from the publisher or author.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content based on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Copyright

• Copyright on any open access article in the Journal of Clinical Psychology and Counseling Research, is retained by the author(s).
• Authors grant Ferdowsi University of Mashhad a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
• Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely, provided its integrity is maintained, and the original authors, citation details, and publisher are properly identified.

 

Copyright Policy

As an open-access journal, Journal of Clinical Psychology and Counseling Research follows the international certificate Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which states that you are free to: Share- reproduce and rearrange content in any form Adapt- recombine, transform, and reconstruct based on the content in compliance with the conditions stated on this site.

 

Privacy statement

Names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the journal’s purposes and will not be available to any other person or organization.

 

Paper Plagiarism Checker

To prevent plagiarism, Journal of Clinical Psychology and Counseling Research uses the Hamyab and Samimnoor systems as similarity checker tool for the Persian articles and the iThenticate system for the Latin abstract of received articles. If the percentage of similarity is more than 15%, the article will be withdrawn from the review process.

 

Website Archiving

All journal articles are stored in two different ways. PDF version of all articles is online and available to readers on the journal website. The backup copy of the articles is kept on the journal office’s computer. If a problem occurs on the journal's website and the articles' information is lost, they will be republished online on the journal's website in less than 24-36 hours. In addition, the articles' PDFs are archived in the Iran Scientific Journals System.

 

Abstracting/Indexing Services

Essential information and abstracts of articles published in the journal are indexed in several databases. Additionally, two of our journal’s Abstracting/Indexing services (Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) and Iran Scientific Journals System) archive not only the metadata about the article, but the PDF versions of the articles, as well.

The list of these databases can be seen in the section "Banks and profile letters".

 

Self-Archiving

Authors may archive the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories immediately after publication.

Other revenue

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as the publisher of the journal, supports it for each published issue by paying a defined budget according to its published annual rank in Portal of Scientific Journals of Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. The allocated budget includes those pertaining to setup and maintenance of the publication infrastructure, routine operation of the Journal, processing of manuscripts through peer-reviews, editing, publishing, maintaining the scholarly record, and archiving.

Advertising

This Journal does not accept any advertising.

Direct marketing

There are no direct marketing activities in this journal.