About the Journal

The International Journal of Police Science (IJPS) is a peer-reviewed open access international journal for law enforcement and security researchers, practitioners, and academics who aim to exchange scientific research, technical notes, and other scholarly work in policing. The journal publishes research in all aspects of policing, while promoting a culture of excellence, innovation, creativity, quality of police practices, community relationships, and police research and development.


The IJPS is published quarterly (January, April, July, and October) by the International Police Science Association (IPSA). Each issue contains four to six items, including editorials, case studies, original research articles, review articles, book reviews, and rapid communications. Articles are selected through a double-blind peer-review process to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The journal is published in the English language under a wide indexing policy and an open access license (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International [CC BY-NC 4.0]), thereby ensuring the journal’s contents are available to vast audiences within the scientific and practitioner communities.

Rules of Publication

  • The IJPS mainly publishes field, empirical, and qualitative analytical re­search articles on policing and security, as well as relevant articles in legal, social, anthropological, and other fields related to the security perspective.
  • Manuscripts submitted should observe the rules and principles of scientif­ic research in terms of style, examination, and methodology.
  • Empirical field research should contain: an introduction showing the the­oretical framework; previous studies, hypotheses, objectives, and ques­tions of the research; the significance of the study; determinants, scientific terms, and procedures of the study; the study’s sample, tools, authenticity, method, findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
  • Authors who receive requests for changes—from the IJPS editors or peer reviewers—should make recommended edits and promptly submit edited copies of their articles.
  • All submissions must be original works that do not draw substantially from previously published work.
  • Prior to submitting their work to the IJPS, authors are responsible for ob­taining all necessary permissions from copyright holders for reproducing illustrations, tables, figures, or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere.
  • After undergoing peer review, articles selected for publication will be pub­lished in the appropriate edition of the IJPS.
  • The IJPS has the right to publish, not publish, add, or omit any part of a submission that conflicts with the IJPS’s publication policies.

 

Peer-Review Process:

Articles submitted to the IJPS for publication are peer-reviewed by accredited referees. The standards for review include the following:

  • Scientific value of the paper (quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, as appropriate).
  • Novelty and authenticity.
  • Suitability of the theory framework.
  • Suitability of research method.
  • Suitability of research tools used.
  • Accuracy and clear interpretation of results
  • Scientific and academic integrity.
  • Authenticity and variety of references.
  • Style and language.
  • Practical significance of recommendations.