Language Related Research

Aims and Scope
Language Related Research has been established with a scientific-research objective to advance scholarly thought and studies in the fields of language, discourse processing, and discourse analysis.
The journal prioritizes diversity in theorization, attention to the deep and applied layers of language, corpus-based approaches, references to significant domestic and international research findings, and avoidance of repetition and redundancy.
The journal accepts articles in the following areas: Language Teaching and Learning, Teacher Education, Language Assessment, Comparative Linguistics, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, Psychology of Language, Discourse Analysis, Materials Development, as well as Learner Individual Differences.

Established: 2010 (initially as Quarterly Journal of Comparative Language and Literature Research)

Renamed: 2013 (to Bimonthly Language Related Research)

Frequency: Bimonthly

Language: Trilingual

Publication Type: Electronic

Access: Open and free access (full text)

International Indexing
Scopus (Q1), SJR, DOAJ, Copernicus, Proquest, Publons, Researchgate, Google Scholar

National Indexing
ISC (Q1), SID. Magiran, Noormags

Ministry of Science Accreditation
International (as of the latest 2023 evaluation) Impact Factor: 0.552

Digital Identifiers
DOI: Available
DOR: Available

Submission and Review Process
Initial Review Time: 7-10 days
Average Article Review Time: 2 months

Similarity Check
Maximum acceptable similarity (iThenticate) in articles is up to 15%
Note: Certificates can be obtained from the Samim Noor site at: https://www.samimnoor.ir/view/fa/Default/صفحه-اصلی

Key Submission Rules
1. The submitted article must not be published or simultaneously submitted to other journals.
2. Simultaneous submission of more than one article per author is not allowed (except for one Persian and one Latin article).
3. Maximum of two articles under review per author (at any stage: received, under review, revision, or accepted).
4. Articles must strictly adhere to the journal's guidelines.

Editorial Team
- Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Hamidreza Shairil, Professor of French Language and Literature (Semiotics-Semantics), Tarbiat Modares University, Email: shairi@modares.ac.ir
- Managing Editor: Dr. Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Associate Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Tarbiat Modares University, Email: mrmoham@modares.ac.ir
- English Editor: Dr. Ali Derakhshan, Professor of English Language Teaching, Golestan University, Email: a.derakhshan@gu.ac.ir
- Persian Specialized Editor: Dr. Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Masum, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Email: hosseinimaasum@um.ac.ir
- Assistant English Editor: Dr. Farzaneh Shakki, Postdoctoral Researcher, Golestan University, Email: f.shakki69@gmail.com
Executive Manager: Ms. Kimia Moradi, PhD student in French, Tarbiat Modares University, Email: kimiyamoradi.199913@gmail.com

Peer-review Policy
The peer review process in this Journal is double-blinded in which the reviewer’s name is unknown to the author and vice versa. Submitted articles go through a structural and subject evaluation to make sure they are in line with Culture and Folk Literature principles. Confirmed papers go through a double-blind peer review by three field experts chosen by the Board of Review based on their specialty

Open Access Policy
Open access and free (all papers)
This Journal’s contents and the articles are freely available to readers without subscriptions or payments through the journal website or its permanent repositories. Users can read, download, copy, distribute, publish, search, and refer to the articles without the permission of the publisher or author as far as the articles are correctly cited.

Publishing Ethics
This Journal follows all the terms and conditions of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws and the law regarding the prevention and prosecution of plagiarism.
Licensing Policy: This Journal is licensed under the terms of international copyright law of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial "(CC BY-NC)"

Authors fees
Dear authors/ paper contributors, you are being humbly informed that the journal charges 720 thousand Tomans (In two steps: Reviewing: 300 thousand Tomans, and Publishing: 420 thousand Tomans)

Self-archiving Policies for Authors
Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in this Journal as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website.

Copyright Policy
Under open access license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but allow anyone to download, reuse, and reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited properly.