About the Journal
Jama'a is a Hebrew-language interdisciplinary journal of Middle East studies. It is published once a year by the Department of Middle East Studies and the Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. The Journal debuted in 1998, and is jointly edited by graduate students and faculty. Recognized by the Israel Council for Higher Education as a peer-reviewed journal, Jama'a publishes articles by research students and leading scholars following a rigorous review process.
Peer Review Process
Papers submitted to Jama'a will be reviewed by three anonymous reviewers (Editorial Board members, Section Editors, and/or invited reviewers with expertise in the subject matter). Authors will remain anonymous to referees.
The typical time taken to conduct the reviews is four months.
Reviewers and editors are obliged to retain the contents as privileged and confidential until publication. The Editor(s) will have final authority over an article's suitability for publication.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh, abides by the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access:
“By “open access” to [peer-reviewed research literature], we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”
Researchers engage in discovery for the public good, yet because of cost barriers or use restrictions imposed by other publishers, research results are not available to the full community of potential users. It is our mission to support a greater global exchange of knowledge by making the research published in this journal open to the public and reusable under the terms of a Creative Commons CC-BY license.
Furthermore, we encourage authors to post their pre-publication manuscript in institutional repositories or on their Web sites prior to and during the submission process, and to post the Publisher’s final formatted PDF version after publication. These practices benefit authors with productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
There are no article processing charges, submissions fees, or any other costs required of authors to submit articles to this journal.
