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Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science
ISSN 1997-8553 · eISSN 2309-8619 · Johar Education Society Pakistan · Pakistan
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 31 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science is published by Johar Education Society Pakistan. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Employee Performance and Management and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, together about 26.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (ISSN 1997-8553) Recognized and Sponsored by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, Government of Pakistan Mission StatementPakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) is a peer reviewed journal founded in 2008 with the mission of providing high quality scientific content to academic researchers and business practitioners. It focuses to provide intellectually stimulating forum where researchers can share their ideas, experiments, commerce related themes and topics in a friendly, supportive and thought provoking environment. The editorial board of PJCSS is committed to promote the journal as one of the leading and globally reputable essential reading in contemporary commerce during the next five years to come. Credit towards Tenure and PromotionPakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) has gained the status of HEC recognized/accredited journal in 2010 after passing a rigorous quality standards related to peer review documentation, published papers and abstracting/indexing of content. Papers published in PJCSS are accepted for credit towards appointment and promotion of faculty members in higher education institutes/universities of Pakistan. These papers are further accepted for assessment of HEC Approved Supervisors and publication requirement of research work for the award of PhD degree. Aim and ScopePakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) is tri-annual open access journal published by Johar Education Society (a registered non profit institution) in collaboration with Higher Education Commission (HEC), Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, Government of Pakistan. It is devoted to the study of commerce, business and economics. It attempts to publish quality research focusing on multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary empirical research related to full range of commerce and cognate disciplines. Since the foundation of PJCSS in 2008, the journal had been accepting submissions in all discipline of social sciences. But, now, after the current guidelines of Higher Education Commission (the regulatory body), scope of PJCSS has been reduced to commerce, business and economics only. Further quantitative research with strong data analysis would only be processed for peer review. PJCSS has completed its 10th volume and likes to move towards higher standards and strict control over submission
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Finance
Editor-in-chief Suleman AzizPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 5, Pakistan 4, Saudi Arabia 3, Australia 2, United Kingdom 1 (18 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorBusiness, Management and Accounting14.4%
- Employee Performance and ManagementSocial Sciences7.5%
- Energy, Environment, Economic GrowthEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.7%
- Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and IdentificationBusiness, Management and Accounting4.6%
- Corporate Finance and GovernanceBusiness, Management and Accounting4.5%
- Customer Service Quality and LoyaltyBusiness, Management and Accounting4.5%
- Employee Performance and LeadershipBusiness, Management and Accounting4.3%
- Monetary Policy and Economic ImpactEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
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CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | Q2 | 114/235 | — |
| Finance | Q2 | 168/342 | — |
| Economics and Econometrics | Q2 | 376/755 | — |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.33LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.38LetPub ·
- h-index
- 42OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 269OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.94OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 689 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 25 | 25 | 230 |
| 2025 | 31 | 31 | 703 |
| 2024 | 42 | 42 | 1,041 |
| 2023 | 34 | 34 | 1,411 |
| 2022 | 29 | 29 | 1,219 |
| 2021 | 32 | 32 | 1,190 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare9 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 6
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 10,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Required
- Cover letter
- Required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Authorship Authorship of the Work
Authorship criteria: noteworthy contribution in conceptualization, design, conducting, data analysis, and writing up of the manuscript. Model summary
Authorship of the work may only be credited to those who have made a noteworthy contribution in conceptualization, design, conducting, data analysis and writing up of the manuscript. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to include name of only those co-authors who have made significant contributions to the work. The corresponding author should ensure that all co- authors have seen …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
Conflict of interest disclosure required and must be conveyed to the editor. Model summary
The potential and relevant competing financial, personal social or other interest of all author(s) that might be affected by publication of the results contained in the manuscript must be disclosed and conveyed to the editor. Author(s) should disclose any potential conflict of interest at the earliest possible stage, including but not limited to employment, consultancies, honoraria, patent applica…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics (for authors)
Appeal/complaint process: appeals submitted to chief editor at sulemanlodhi@yahoo.com with detailed justification. Model summary
As Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) is an HEC recognized/accredited and funded journal, that’s why it is obligatory for authors to read, understand and follow these ethical guidelines http://www.hec.gov.pk/english/services/faculty/SSAH/Documents/JCR/HEC%20Approved%20Ethical%20Guidelines.pdf). These include fraudulent authorship, originality of material, privacy of participa…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Model summary
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences by Johar Education Society, Pakistan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Copyrights and Open Access Policy
Copyrights of all research papers published in Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) are held by the Johar Education Society, Pakistan (JESPK). However, as the PJCSS follows Budapest Open Access Initiative for global exchange of knowledge, readers are freely allowed to download, read and print the full text papers of PJCSS without prior permission from the JESPK or the author as…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Peer review: internal and external review by experts; average review time of 3 months. Model summary
Being an HEC recognized/accredited journal, PJCSS follows peer review guidelines of HEC in true letter and spirit to meet the requirements of recognition/accreditation and annual funding. All papers submitted to PJCSS undergo a rigorous internal and external review by experts in the relevant area of interest. PJCSS attempts to maintain an average review time of 3 months.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism policy: zero tolerance; Turnitin or iThenticate screening; papers with similarity above 18% returned to authors; follows HEC and COPE guidelines. Model summary
In accordance with the guidelines of Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) observes Zero Tolerance to plagiarism (http://www.hec.gov.pk/english/services/faculty/Documents/Plagiarism/Plagiarism%20Policy.pdf). PJCSS uses either Turnitin or iThenticate for all research papers submitted to detect possible plagiarism. If similarity is more than 18%,…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Johar Education Society Pakistan
- Country or region
- Pakistan
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1997-8553
- Electronic ISSN
- 2309-8619
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science
How long does peer review take at Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Keywords: ≥ 6; Manuscript length: ≤ 10,000 words; Reference style: APA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Required; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science based?
Of the 18 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (5), Pakistan (4) and Saudi Arabia (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science open access, and what is the APC?
Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Science is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .