About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The main aim of the scientific Journal of Social Policy is to promote the study of Social Policy. The journal’s area of interest is of a multidisciplinary nature and it cover topics, which in a broad sense are included in the study of Social Policy. Examples involve areas such as social security and social welfare, health, social care, employment and the labour market, gender equality policies, family policy, educational policy, migration, crime and housing policy. The articles undergo an evaluation process by two anonymous referees. Moreover, the Journal of Social Policy publishes book reviews, either Greek or international and short reviews on social policy issues of interest.
Peer Review Process
The studies that meet the required standards are sent anonymously to two (2) judges, whose names are not declared. In order to secure the fairness of the judgment process, it is essential that during the submission of the study the anonymity is kept on the part of the author by removing their identification evidence from bibliographic references (references to previous articles by the same author should be made in third person).
The judges are asked to evaluate the submitted study, based on the following criteria:
- originality
- contribution to science
- structure and composition of the text
Based on the judges’ evaluation, the Council shall notify the authors of the acceptance or rejection of their studies, within a reasonable time since their submission. The Hellenic Social Policy Association maintains a confidential archive of all the studies submitted for publication.
In case a study becomes accepted on condition that corrections based on the judges’ suggestions are made, the author has a reasonable amount of time at his disposal, which is defined by the directors of the volume, in order to make these modifications. The revised form of each study must have taken into account the modifications requested by the judges, otherwise the author must explain why they did not accept them.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public contributes to global knowledge exchange. We encourage authors to deposit their articles, as well as data underlying the publications, in institutional and/or other appropriate subject repositories.
Scientific Committee
Dimitris A. Sotiropoulos, Associate Professor, University of Athens
Charalampos Economou, Associate Professor, Panteion University
Constantine Dimoulas, Assistant Professor, Panteion University
Antonis Moysidis, Professor, Panteion University
Ioannis Kouzis, Professor, Panteion University
Christos Bagavos, Associate Professor, Panteion University
Despina Papadopoulou, Associate Professor, Panteion University
Savvas Robolis, Professor, Panteion University
Eleni Prokou, Assistant Professor, Panteion University
Iordanis Psimmenos, Professor, Panteion University
Giorgos Stamelos, Professor, University of Patras
Dimitris Venieris, Professor, University of the Peloponnese
Andreas Feronas, Assistant Professor, University of the Peloponnese
Christos Papatheodorou, Professor, Panteion University
Christoforos Skamnakis, Assistant Professor, Democritus University of Thrace
Vassilis Arapoglou, Associate Professor, University of Crete
Thanasis Alexiou, Professor, University of Aegean
Maria Mitrosyli, Assistant Professor, TEI of Athens
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.
Sources of Support
Membership contributions
Journal History
Launching the electronic version of the scientific Journal of Social Policy was one of the founding objectives of the Hellenic Association of Social Policy (2000). Since 2013 the Association distributes systematically two issues per year. The journal’s academic focus and debate reflects upon theoretical issues of Social Policy but also aspects concerning its implementation.
