Manuscript Type
Manuscript Types
Ganaya: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora primarily accepts two main types of scholarly manuscripts: Original Research Articles and Review Articles. In addition, the journal may accept Case Studies and Literary Studies on a limited and selective basis, provided that these manuscripts demonstrate scholarly originality, methodological rigor, substantial academic contributions, and clear relevance to the journal's focus and scope.
The journal welcomes scholarly contributions in the fields of social sciences and humanities, including sociology, political science, public administration and public policy, economics, accounting, auditing, geography, history, tourism, cultural studies, language and society, multiculturalism, and other closely related interdisciplinary fields.
The acceptance of additional manuscript types is subject to editorial assessment, the journal's publication priorities, and compliance with its established academic and ethical standards.
1. Original Research Articles
Original Research Articles present original empirical findings, theoretical investigations, or scholarly analyses that contribute to the advancement of knowledge in social sciences and humanities.
These manuscripts may employ qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, historical, comparative, ethnographic, phenomenological, textual, or other academically recognized research approaches. Research may draw upon primary or secondary data, field observations, interviews, surveys, archival materials, historical documents, statistical datasets, or other relevant scholarly sources.
Manuscripts must clearly explain the research problem, objectives, research design, data sources, methodological procedures, analytical techniques, and principal findings. The findings must be critically discussed in relation to existing scholarship and demonstrate originality, methodological rigor, and meaningful theoretical, empirical, or practical contributions to social sciences and humanities.
2. Review Articles
Review Articles provide critical, comprehensive, and methodologically rigorous examinations of existing scholarly literature relevant to social sciences and humanities.
Ganaya: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora considers narrative reviews, scoping reviews, systematic literature reviews (SLRs), integrative literature reviews, and other academically recognized forms of literature review.
These manuscripts must go beyond summarizing previous publications by providing critical synthesis, identifying research gaps, examining theoretical or methodological developments, evaluating scholarly debates, or developing new conceptual perspectives.
Authors must clearly explain the literature search and selection procedures, relevant academic databases or scholarly sources, inclusion and exclusion criteria where applicable, and analytical or synthesis methods appropriate to the selected review approach.
Review Articles must demonstrate an original scholarly contribution by advancing theoretical understanding, integrating existing knowledge, or identifying significant directions for future research in social sciences and humanities.
3. Case Studies
Case Studies present systematic and in-depth investigations of specific social, cultural, economic, political, institutional, historical, or community-based phenomena relevant to the journal's focus and scope.
These manuscripts may examine individual cases, organizations, communities, public institutions, social practices, policy implementation, cultural transformations, economic activities, or other relevant phenomena through appropriate qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods approaches.
Authors must clearly explain the rationale for selecting the case, research context, research objectives, data sources, methodological procedures, analytical techniques, and principal findings.
Case Studies must provide critical analysis and demonstrate scholarly contributions that extend beyond descriptive accounts of particular situations. The findings should offer broader theoretical, empirical, methodological, or practical insights relevant to social sciences and humanities.
Case Studies are accepted on a limited and selective basis, subject to editorial assessment of their originality, methodological quality, scholarly significance, and relevance to the journal's focus and scope.
4. Literary Studies
Literary Studies present original scholarly analyses of literary works, cultural narratives, historical texts, traditional literature, regional literature, manuscripts, or other textual materials relevant to social sciences and humanities.
These manuscripts may examine literary representations of society, culture, identity, language, history, social relations, political developments, multiculturalism, or other relevant social and humanistic phenomena.
Appropriate analytical approaches include literary criticism, hermeneutics, philology, semiotics, sociological literary analysis, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intertextual analysis, and other academically recognized interpretative methodologies.
Authors must clearly identify the literary works or textual materials examined, explain the research objectives, describe the analytical framework and methodological procedures, and present original interpretations supported by relevant textual evidence and scholarly literature.
Literary Studies must demonstrate theoretical relevance, analytical originality, methodological rigor, and meaningful contributions to understanding literature within its broader social, cultural, historical, or humanistic contexts.
Manuscripts consisting primarily of narrative summaries, descriptive interpretations, or reproductions of literary materials without substantial critical analysis will not be considered.
Literary Studies are accepted on a limited and selective basis, depending on their scholarly significance, methodological quality, and relevance to the journal's focus and scope.
5. Manuscript Length
All manuscripts must not exceed 8,000 words, excluding the reference list, table contents, and figures. The word count includes the abstract, main text, footnotes, and table and figure captions.
All manuscript types must follow the journal's established manuscript structure, including Introduction, Method, integrated Results and Discussion, Conclusions, and References, in accordance with the official Author Guidelines and article template.
All submissions must demonstrate originality, clear relevance to the journal's focus and scope, sound academic argumentation, appropriate methodology, transparent research procedures, and compliance with established publication ethics.
The editorial team conducts an initial assessment to evaluate the manuscript's academic quality, methodological rigor, scholarly contribution, and compliance with journal requirements before determining whether it may proceed to peer review.
Final publication decisions are based on scholarly merit, relevance to the journal's scope, editorial assessment, peer-review recommendations, and satisfactory completion of the required revision process.
