About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Social Cohesion and Development publishes original research articles covering a wide range of social policy and development issues that have not been submitted to another journal. It encourages multidisciplinary, comparative and historical approaches.
Social Cohesion and Development welcomes book reviews and short research reports.
Peer Review Process
Social Cohesion and Development adheres to a double blind review process. All manuscripts are initially assessed by the Editor. Those that fit with the aims and scope of the review are sent for review. Each manuscript is reviewed by two reviewers and in case of conflicting reviews to a third. Reviewers respond within 5 weeks. The editorial decision is made as soon as both reviews are received. The selection of reviewers is made from the reviewers’ pool set up by the editorial board and comprising members of the Greek and international research community.
Book reviews are assessed by the Book Review Editor and research reports by the Editor.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
ePublisher
The National Documentation Centre (www.ekt.gr) is a national infrastructure. Since 1980, it actively engages in the collection, organization and dissemination of scientific and technological information in Greece and internationally. EKT’s strategic priority is the aggregation, organized online dissemination and preservation of quality-assured scholarly and educational content in a single research infrastructure.
EKT’s vision is “Access to Knowledge”. To this end it implements Open Access policies in research, supports the transfer and dissemination of scientific knowledge, collaborates with research, education and cultural institutions for the aggregation, organization and dissemination of digital content and provides innovative services in scientific information.
EKT provides reliable ePublishing services as part of its scholarly content aggregation and dissemination activities . Its integrated online ePublishing environment is developed with open-source interoperable technology. This affords the incorporation of EKT’s infrastructures into the continuously developing international infrastructure environment.
EKT’s ePublishing services (http://epublishing.ekt.gr/) are directed to public and extended public institution publishers of accredited scholarly journals. They include, most significantly, the organization, documentation and organized dissemination of metadata and content of scholarly journals, the training and consulting services on issues such as intellectual property, the standardization of editorial processes according to internationally accepted standards, the inclusion of content and metadata in international content indexers and harvesters via interoperable systems.
Journal History
Social Cohesion and Development is a biannual scientific review published since 2006. The Editorial Board in cooperation with the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal and the Society’s Scientific Board are responsible for the publication procedure and ensure that the journal maintains a high standard of scholarship. Members of the Scientific Advisory Board are distinguished social scientists.
