About the Journal

Dissertia Research Reviews (ISSN 3053-6669) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to publishing extended abstracts and excerpts of MA, PhD, and Postdoctoral theses and dissertations across the broad fields of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS). It aims to make graduate research more visible, citable, and globally accessible, highlighting comparative, interdisciplinary, and cross-regional perspectives that connect emerging and established fields of inquiry. The journal values methodological inclusivity, critical reflexivity, and thematic breadth, welcoming conceptual, empirical, and theoretical work that addresses key issues in culture, education, society, and human thought — across various disciplines from Management Studies, Theology, Political Science, and Language Studies to Psychology, Environmental Studies, Law, Arts, Gender, and Digital Media, and beyond.

Aims and Scope
DRR–HASS publishes extended dissertation abstracts, thesis-based research papers, and critical reviews that contribute to international academic dialogue in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. We invite contributions of international significance, including especially MA, PhD, and Postdoctoral research summaries and extended abstracts, that:

  • Apply comparative, multidisciplinary, regional, and/or case study perspectives to theory, method, policy, or practice across the diverse fields of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
  • Examine transcultural, discursive, and dialogical models of inquiry in both local and global contexts, with particular attention to encounters of knowledge, cultural exchange, and transformative dialogue.
  • Engage critically with the ethical, historical, political, social, and philosophical dimensions of scholarship, with sustained attention to disenfranchised and marginalized individuals, groups, and communities whose voices have often been less heard in academic discourse.
  • Explore the role of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and other innovations, in shaping research methodologies, scholarly communication, cultural production, and public knowledge.
  • Contribute to global and trans-cultural conversations through innovative methodologies, underrepresented epistemologies, and alternative knowledge traditions across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
  • Address transformative questions in relation to pressing global challenges, including climate change, migration, peacebuilding, social justice, human rights, cultural heritage, and sustainability.

The journal values critical perspectives, methodological inclusivity, and thematic breadth. We welcome research across all approaches: conceptual and theoretical no less than empirical and practical, qualitative no less than quantitative, and micro-level no less than macro-level studies. Hence, submissions may include empirical investigations, theoretical or conceptual analyses, critical literature reviews (with systematic and transparent methods), case studies, narrative inquiries, evaluations, or mixed-methods research.

Dissertia Research Reviews promotes equality, diversity, and representation in academic publishing, with no ideological orientation privileged. Contributions that challenge established paradigms, propose alternative or constructive approaches, or engage deeply with non-dominant epistemologies are of particular interest. The journal also encourages collaborative work by international and cross-disciplinary teams of scholars. Although studies may be situated in a single cultural or national context, all submissions must engage broader theoretical debates and demonstrate relevance to an international readership.

Open Access Policy
All content published in Dissertia Research Reviews is freely available under an open-access model. Readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles without prior permission from the publisher or author. The journal does not charge readers or institutions for access.

Copyright and Licensing
Authors retain copyright of their work published in Dissertia Research Reviews. All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing others to share and adapt the work with appropriate citation and acknowledgment of the original source.

Archiving and Preservation
The journal participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP|PN) to ensure long-term digital preservation of all published content. Each article is assigned a DOI and archived in multiple international repositories to safeguard scholarly accessibility and citation continuity.

Sponsorship and Ownership
Dissertia Research Reviews is published by Dissertia.ai, a Berlin-based academic initiative dedicated to promoting global graduate research and interdisciplinary scholarship through AI-powered open-access publishing. The journal operates independently and is sustained through editorial contributions, institutional collaborations, and publication fees that support editorial and digital infrastructure.

Privacy Statement
Personal information provided to the journal, including names, affiliations, and contact details, will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this publication and will not be shared with third parties without consent.

Publication Ethics and Review Policy
All submissions undergo single-anonymous peer review by qualified scholars in relevant disciplines. The editorial board upholds strict ethical standards regarding authorship, plagiarism, data integrity, and conflict of interest, in accordance with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines.