About Journal
International Journal of Tourism, Culture and Spirituality (IJTCS) is an international double blind peer reviewed Semiannual publication which publishes high quality papers on Tourism within the dimensions of Culture and Spirituality. IJTCS is an open access publication, The following manuscript format can be published in the journal: Original article, Case studies, review article, systematic review and meta-analysis on topics related to journal scope
Financial Policies
Article Processing Charges
As University of Science and Culture has supported all of the publishing costs of IJTCS, article processing charge and any other publication fees in the journal are free for authors. So there is no article processing charge
Subscription Fee
IJTCS has published as an open access electronic journal, so there is no subscription fee for audiences.
Open Access Statement
IJTCS is is a fully open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. IJTCS is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). Licensees may copy, distribute, display and make derivative works only if they cite the original published SES article.
Copyright owner / Copyright holder
In this journal, authors retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights. The author has complete control over the work (e.g., retains the right to reuse, distribute, republish, etc.).
Publication Policies
IJTCS is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws.
Plagiarism Detection
Plagiarism is intentionally using someone else’s ideas or other original material as if they are one's own. Copying even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation is considered by IJTCS Journal as plagiarism. All manuscripts under review or published with IJTCS are subject to screening using plagiarism prevention software (iThenticate). Thus, plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. The authors are expected to check their manuscript for plagiarism before submission.
Journal Features
- Journal Title : International Journal of Tourism, Culture and Spirituality (IJTCS)
- Journal Title Acronym: IJTCS
- Coverage: Journal Scope
- Language: English
- Start Year: 2017
- Format: Online
- Frequency: Semiannual
- Editor-in-Chief: Mohammad Hossein Imani Khoshkhoo
- Honorary Editor: Richard Sharpley
- Journal’s Sponsor: University of Science and Culture
- Publisher: University of Science and Culture
- Review Type: Double-Blind peer review.
- Type of Access: Open Access (OA)
- Full-text format of articles: PDF
- The Digital ID of Articles: DOI
- Article submission charges: Free
- Article Publishing Charges: Free
Contact Information
Website: ijtcs.usc.ac.ir
Email: ijts@usc.ac.ir
Editor in Chief Email: mohammad.h.imani@gmail.com
Executive Manager Email: nadalipour.z@gmail.com
Publisher: University of Science and Culture