The Journal of Social Problems of Iran used to be published in the form of a bi-scientific-research quarterly, based on the license No. 3/11/821 dated 10/5/88 of the Publications Commission of the Ministry of Science, which has been extended so far.
Background: The Journal of Social Problems of Iran was previously published under the title Special Issue of Social Sciences, Journal of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Teacher Training University, Tehran. The journal of the Faculty of Literature and Humanities of Tarbiat Moallem University was published in 1997 with a scientific-research validity as a multidisciplinary journal with various topics in humanities. Since 2004, when the Publications Commission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology began to move towards the specialization of scientific journals, this journal has been published alternately with two special issues of Persian literature and social sciences. Up to now, 6 special issues of the journal of social sciences special have been made available to researchers. As the process of specialization of scientific-research journals as much as continued, based on the license No. 3/11/821 dated 2009/08/01 of the Publications Commission of the Ministry of Science, the special issue of social sciences changed into an independent scientific-research bi-quarterly under the title: Iranian Journal of Social Issues.
During the publication of the journal, Dr. Gholam Ali Fallah and then Dr. Fatemeh Javaheri were the managing director and Dr. Ahmad Rajabzadeh and then Dr. Seyed Hossein Serajzadeh were the editors of the journal. The editorial board of the journal are: Dr. Siroos Ahmadi, Dr. Farhang Ershad, Dr. Mohammad Hossein Panahi, Dr. Hamidreza Jalaeipour, Dr. Fatemeh Javaheri, Dr. Bijan Zare, Dr. Seyed Hossein Serajzadeh, Dr. Akbar Aliverdinia, Dr. Salahedin Ghaderi, Dr. Alireza Karimi, Dr. Masoud Golchin, Dr. Hossein Moftakhari, Dr. Mohammad Mirzaei, Dr. Hamzeh Nozari, Dr. Mansour Vosoughi, Dr. Abdie Kazemipur and Dr. Zohreh Bayatrizi.
Field of activity: The main field of activity of the Journal of Social Problems of Iran is focused on publishing experimental scientific-research articles with the approach of social problems of Iran. However, given that the field of social issues is an interdisciplinary field, research articles (theoretical and experimental) from the fields of sociology, anthropology, demography, cultural studies and communication, and related fields that in any way assist to recognize, analyze and manage the difficult and complex social issues of Iranian society are also welcomed. Also, in each issue, 2 to 3 new books on social issues are introduced and critiqued.
Received articles will be published based on the procedure of scientific-research journals and after evaluation by experts in the field related to the article and with the opinion of the editorial board of the journal. Efforts are made to determine the results of the evaluations and to inform the authors of the articles in a short period of time.