The Journal of Shiite History is a peer-reviewed quarterly publication affiliated with the Iranian Association of Islamic History. It has been published since Spring 2019, with the aim of providing a platform for presenting scholarly and specialized articles. The journal’s fundamental mission is to support research studies on various aspects of history. The enthusiastic reception from professors, researchers, and students has contributed to the growth in both the quantity and quality of articles published in the journal.

Journal Specifications:

• Type of Accreditation: Scientific (Approved by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology)
• Publication Frequency: Quarterly
• Peer Review Type: Double-blind
• Language: Persian (Abstracts in English)
• Access: Open Access (Full Text Available)
• Submission and Publication Fees: Applicable

All submitted articles undergo plagiarism detection through similarity-checking software before entering the peer review process.

Submission and Publication Fees:
As per the decision of the Iranian Association of Islamic History:

• A fee of 4,000,000 IRR will be charged upon initial submission for peer review.
• An additional fee of 3,000,000 IRR will be charged upon final approval for publication.

Note: If an article is rejected by the reviewers, the initial submission fee is non-refundable.

Open Access Statement
This journal is committed to immediate and real open access for academic work. All the original articles, technical briefs and review papers published in this journal are free to access immediately from the date of publication.

Copyright and License Agreement

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

The workings of the Creative Commons: BY-NC License, as stated on the Creative Commons website, is defined as below:

"This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms."
The authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions.

Similarity Check

We uphold the highest standards of academic integrity and rigor. To ensure the originality and quality of all submitted manuscripts, we utilize iThenticate, and Samim Noor. a leading plagiarism detection tool. All manuscripts undergo a thorough similarity check through iThenticate's advanced algorithms, helping us maintain the integrity of scholarly research and adhere to ethical publishing practices.

Repository and Archiving Policies

Authors are permitted to deposit all the following versions of their paper in an institutional or subject repository without any embargo.
- Preprint
- Author's Accepted Manuscript
- Published article (Version of Record)

The journal's website deposit all mentioned versions.

*The contents are archived and preserved at journal website.

Therefore, the articles will be available at the mentioned website in case they get removed from the journal website for any reason and the files remain permanently on that websites.