The Context is an international, refereed, open access e-journal of language, literary and cultural studies. Our editorial policies are given below:
Peer Review Policy
When the manuscript is received for consideration by email, it undergoes preliminary originality check with basic standards and adherence to the manuscript guidelines. If this is fulfilled article is provisionally accepted for peer-review. We follow double blind peer-review process, at the next stage article goes to precisely expert editorial board member and an external reviewer. After receiving positive review reports only, we accept the manuscript for publication and an intimation is sent to the author(s). If the article fails short in any area of presentation such remarks from the reviewers are forwarded to the author(s) for necessary revision. Revised article is expected within five days from the intimation; in case revised article is not received within stipulated time, publication of the scheduled issue proceeds without the awaited article and editor and publisher shall not be held responsible for any issue arising out of such conditions.
The editors reserve the right to delete and/or alter the content of an article as they deem it fit for publication.
The Context (ISSN 2349-4948) journal published by Modern English Research Alliance offers Open Access to the articles published in its all issues. All Open Access articles are peer reviewed and everyone has FREE and unlimited access to the full-text of the articles published in The Context. All articles are immediately available in open access format for all the readers and users worldwide.
Open Access publication is supported by the publication fee paid by contributing authors for accepted articles and a clause to that effect is also included in the copyright agreement at number 8.
Authors choosing online Open Access publication will retain copyright in their articles.
Magnus Publishing House applies the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license to works we publish in The Context Journal (ISSN 2349-4948). For permissions beyond the scope of this license please contact the publisher at editor@thecontext.in
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license permits use and redistribution of the material in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
Copyright in any online Open Access article published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license is retained by the author(s). Authors grant Modern English Research Alliance a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original (first) publisher. Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as it is not used for commercial purposes and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
If you have a question about the license kindly email us at: editor@thecontext.in
Retraction is a mechanism for correcting the literature and alerting readers to publications that contain such seriously flawed or erroneous data that their findings and conclusions cannot be relied upon. Unreliable data may result from honest error or from research misconduct.
For article retraction we follow Committee on Publication Ethics Retraction Guidelines as outlined in this document.
We adhere to the following Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria for The Context Journal.
Inclusion Criteria
- Research reported in English language
- Studies using qualitative methods of analysis
- Original and Unpublished first hand qualitative studies
- Studies involving secondary qualitative analysis of qualitative data
- Research formatted in MLA (9th Edition) Style sheet
- Research within the scope of the journal only
- Research that contributes significant findings
Exclusion Criteria
- Published Papers & abstracts
- Dissertations /theses
- Lexical studies that analyse natural language data presented as quantitative results
- Studies without a research methodologies
- Qualitative studies using questionnaires or other methods that do not involve direct contact or observation of participants
- Any study where text / data not analysed i.e. uninterpreted data
- Case reports
- Any review (systematic, narrative, qualitative)
- Commentary articles, written to convey opinion or stimulate research /discussion, with no research component.
- Creative writings: poems, short stories, short fiction, etc.
