JHROS Author, Institutional, and Geographic Diversity Policy

The JHROS is committed to promoting intellectual pluralism, equitable scholarly participation, and global representation. To prevent author monopolisation, institutional over-representation, and geographic concentration, JHROS adopts a structured diversity policy that governs author frequency, institutional balance, and country-level representation across issues and volumes. This policy strengthens editorial integrity, aligns with best practices expected by international indexing bodies, and ensures fair access for emerging and underrepresented scholars.

Author Publication Limits

To ensure equitable opportunities for contributors:

  • Maximum per issue: 1 article per author
  • Maximum per calendar year: 2 articles per author
  • Rolling 3-year window: Maximum 2-3 articles per author

If an author publishes in both issues of the same calendar year, that author will not be eligible for publication in the following academic year. The next eligible publication year will be one full year later. This rule applies regardless of author order (first or co-author).

To avoid institutional dominance and ensure broader scholarly participation:

  • No single institution should contribute more than 30–35% of articles in any issue.
  • Editorial discretion shall be exercised when submissions from one institution exceed acceptable thresholds.

To promote international visibility and cross-cultural scholarship:

  • Each issue should include at least 40% internationally affiliated authors.
  • Multi-country collaborations are strongly encouraged and prioritised during editorial consideration.
  • Special issues must demonstrate a clear geographic spread unless thematically justified.

Exceptions may be granted only with strong editorial justification for: Invited review papers; Special issue lead articles; multi-institution and multi-country collaborations, and editorially commissioned manuscripts. Hence, all exceptions must be documented internally and approved by the Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Board.