The West East Journal of Social Sciences (WEJSS) is a double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal and welcomes empirical and theoretical, articles in all areas of social and humanitarian research. WEJSS is an open-access journal that is essential reading for academic researchers and professionals.  Articles may include but are not limited to the fields of social and humanitarian sciences, education, teaching, learning, law, psychology, sociology, history, public administration and related fields.

Having established the West East Journal of Social Sciences in 2012, beginning in January 2019, the WEJSS publish one single volume per year without separate issues. Articles will be published online as soon as possible after final acceptance. This change was made in order to keep with the journal's mission of providing quality open-access scientific information.

Aim and Scope

The West East Journal of Social Sciences (WEJSS) welcomes articles in all areas of social and humanitarian research. WEJSS is an open access journal that is essential reading for academic researchers and professionals.  Articles may include but are not limited to the fields of social and humanitarian sciences, education, teaching, learning, law, psychology, sociology, history, public administration and related fields.

Review Process

Articles submitted to the West East Institute for possible journal publication are subjected to a double-blind peer-review process.

All articles are initially reviewed by the editor to ensure suitability for review. Articles deemed ready for review are then forwarded to two outside reviewers on the basis of their field of expertise. The name of the author is removed from the manuscript prior to its being sent out for review, and referee names are not revealed to authors to maximize objectivity in evaluating the article. Acceptance/rejection decision for publication is given after the evaluation of the reviewers who are either the member of the editorial board or ad-hoc reviewers. They are responsible for assessing the quality, content and contribution of the submission.

Articles deemed not suitable for further review or inappropriate are rejected. Based on the refereeing process, the editor has the final authority for the acceptance or rejection decision of any article.

The review process is completed within 4 weeks for expedited reviews and within eight weeks for standard reviews.

Plagiarism Policy

Manuscripts submitted to the journal may be checked for originality using anti-plagiarism software. Submitted papers will be screened by using Grammarly’s Premium plagiarism check to detect plagiarism, which gives an instant report that tells whether or not plagiarism was found and how many grammar and writing issues are present in your document. Grammarly’s Premium plagiarism checker flags specific sentences and provides reference information about the source, calculates an overall originality score for document, and offers advanced writing feedback and corrections across several dimensions.

The West East Journal of Social Sciences  will immediately reject papers leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.

Open Access Policy

All research articles published in WEI journals are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download and share. Articles are published under the terms of This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Copyright Holder: The West East Institute as publisher allows authors to retain the copyright of their work and also allows the author to hold the copyright without restrictions.

Author Self-Archiving Policy: This journal permits and encourages authors to post items submitted to the journal on personal websites or institutional repositories both prior to and after publication while providing bibliographic details that credit, if applicable, its publication in this journal.

Permanent Digital Archive Policy

We are using Portico as permanent digital archive policy, which is a not-for-profit service committed to the preservation of digital publications, including e-journals, e-books, and digitized historical collections. All aur journals are deposited by Portico permenantly and can be accessble through the following link,https://www.portico.org/publishers/westeast/

Fee for Paper Submission and Publication

There is no fee charged for paper submission. If submitted paper is accepted for the publication, the publication fee is $350.

Code of Publication Ethics

The West East Journal of Social sciences(WEJSS) and its editors are committed to objective and fair double-blind peer-review of submitted manuscripts for journal publication and conference presentation and will evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy. An article submitted to The West East Journal of Social Sciences for publication must be original, has not been plagiarized, and not under review for any other journals. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently is unethical and unacceptable.