About the Journal

Journal of Assessment and Research in Applied Counseling is a scientific open-access double-blind anonymous peer-review journal publishing original articles, reviews, short communications and scientific reports of a high scientific and ethical standard in psychology, counseling and related academic disciplines. This journal is published four times per year, in English, by KMANPUB. It covers scientific subjects in the following fields:

  • Assessment, evaluation and measurement tools for counseling and psychotherapy
  • New individual and family psychotherapy and counseling approaches

Its purpose is to publish quality articles that report findings related to important issues in this field. In this publication, in order to facilitate identification and search, each article has its own unique identification number (doi).
 

Types of accepted papers include:

  • Original articles                                                                       
  • Clinical reports
  • Scientific reviews

Journal of Assessment and Research in Applied Counseling is indexed and abstracted by the Google Scholar, APA PsycInfo, LinkedIn, ABCD Index, Researchgate, and DOAJ. The manuscripts are submitted electronically via the journal website, and after confirmation by the editorial board are sent for peer review by 3 expert reviewers and published following scientific and language editing. The submitted manuscripts are precisely scrutinized and the ones with the highest scientific quality are selected and published in the shortest space of time.

Publication Information
JARAC publishes four issues per year, with occasional special issues coming in addition

Director in Charge: Dr. Mehdi Rostami
Editor-in-chief: Dr. Valiollah Farzad
Associate editor: Dr. Mehdi Rostami
Publisher: KMAN Publication Inc. (KMANPUB)
Email: jarac@kmanpub.com   /   journalarcp@gmail.com


Open Access Statement
Journal of Assessment and Research in Applied Counseling (JARAC) 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. There are no charges for any reader to download articles and reviews for their own scholarly use.

Copyright and License Agreement

Creative Commons License

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

At JARAC, we uphold the highest standards of academic integrity and rigor. To ensure the originality and quality of all submitted manuscripts, we utilize iThenticate, 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 LOCKSS and CLOCKSS

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.