PIONEER-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES

EDITORIAL-BOARD

EDITOR: Dr. Thagi Ram Gogoi, Prof. Dept of Sociology ,USTM

ASSOCIATE EDITORs
Marphy Chetia, Asst Prof ,University School of Law and Research, USTM
Barnali Deka, Asst Prof ,University School of Law and Research, USTM

ASSISTANT EDITORs
Bhaskar Jyoti Deka, Academic Co-ordinator vision 50 IAS Academy USTM
Dibjyoti Sharma, Legal Consultant of Assam State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights
Dr. Afruza Nasrin Islam, Director, General Administration and Extension, Jorhat Law College

Anurag Hazarika, Faculty KKHSOU Tezpur College, Tezpur

 ADVISORY BOARD
Prof. Sambit Mallick, IIT Guwahati
Prof . D.V. Kumar, NEHU, Shillong
Prof. Chandan Kumar Sharma, Tezpur University
Prof. Nirakar Mallick, Assam University Silchar
Prof. Biswambhar Panda, NEHU ,Shillong
Associate Prof. Shabeena Yasmin Saikia, Gauhati University
Associate Prof. Jyoti Das, Cotton University
Dr. Nitul Gogoi, IGP (ASSAM)
Dr. Prankrishna Deka, Scientist

About the journal-

“PIONEER” is an International journal which is an important addition to the unique creation of activities and literature from different individuals belonging to various kinds of streams(multi-disciplinary). It will encourage issues relating to our understanding of man, civilization , culture and society. Primary goal of the journal is to maintain high quality publication . The journal shall contribute its outmost to see that it does achieve the standards of excellence that we have set for it and makes an authentic contribution of the understanding of our contemporary predicaments.

Review and Editing-

After submission, the article will be assessed for its suitability as per the journal Scope. Preliminary reading by the Editors will be made for its proper structuring as essentially needed for the journal articles. In case of technical/specialist nature of articles, papers will be sent to the anonymous reviewer/reviewers. Their Recommendations/Comments/suggestions will be shared with the corresponding author

Periodicity-

(Half- Yearly). January-June and July-December. It will be available at the end of period ie June and December. The manuscripts received during October -March are considered for publication in January- June issue Where the manuscripts received during April-September period are considered for publication in July- December issue also depending upon the publication Queue. A Period of further three months is taken for the review and other related processes. The journal receives manuscripts only in electronic form.

Basic Details in the paper-

The paper should essentially carry the following detail:

• Title of the article.
• Author(s)’name(s)
• Corresponding Author E-mail
• Institution Affiliation(s)
• Reference in the prescribed style.

An article should comprise the following in a clearly demarcated structure of a typical research article:

• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction and objectives
• Material and methods
• Findings /Results
• Discussion of the results in context of prior studies
• Conclusion /policy implication and suggestion
• Reference as per ILI style

Certification by the Authors that the research paper is not submitted/under review/published/copyrighted/accepted anywhere else.

Journal Style:

Reference for all articles go together at the journal. References should be set out using the following format:

Citations:(Desai,1998);(Smith & Hofstad,2006);(sharma et al, 2009).

Journal :Jaffe, A,R.Newell, and R. Stavins.2005. A tale of two market failures: Technology and environmental policy. Ecological Economics 54:164-74.

Book: Metz, B,O. Davidson, R. Swart , and J. Pan (Eds.).2001. Climate change 2001; Mitigation. Contribution of working group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge: Cambridge university press.

The text of article must be in 12 point New Times Roman font with 1.5 line spacing; all illustration, figures, and tables must be placed within the text at the appropriate levels, rather than at the end of paper

Submission of article: The softcopy of the contribution to the journal should be in the MS-Word format editable soft copy, not the pdf) and be submitted on dedicated journal   e-mail: Callforpapersr2022@gmail.com (Submission through post or any online portal or any other e-mail will not be entertained). The article should be in about 5000 words for research and review papers whereas the commentary be limited to 2500 words and book review in 1200 words.

However, exceptions for longer manuscripts may be allowed for certain submission reporting qualitative research or multiple method adopted in study.