Submission Policies

The editors reserve the right to determine the suitability of submissions. For additional information, see the Submission Guidelines. 

Article Processing and Article Submission Charges

We do not have any article processing or article submission charges.

Peer Review Process

Each submission goes through two stages of review. Both stages of review will be open, meaning the author identity will be disclosed to the reviewer and vice versa. 

Editorial Review: Based on the submissions and discussion with the editorial board, the board members will decide whether to accept, reject, or request revisions to the research paper. If revisions are required, the author will be asked to make changes and resubmit their research paper for review. 

Graduate Student and Faculty Review: Each research paper will be assigned to a graduate student or faculty member. These editors will review their assigned paper and suggest regarding the content and the validity of the writing.

Plagiarism Policy

We will be scanning for plagiarism by checking the provided citations used to ensure that sources are cited properly.

Removal

Once published, a journal article cannot generally be revised or removed. We feel it is important to provide perpetual access to materials published whenever possible and appropriate. However, we will remove publications under special circumstances, including in the case of submission errors, rights violations, or inappropriate content. Please be aware, however, that even after the removal of a work, a citation to the work will remain in our system, along with a URL.

If you would like your work removed from eScholarship, please contact the editorial board.

Revising Work

Once manuscripts are published, we are generally unable to revise them. If a significant error or omission is discovered, contact the editorial board.

Rights and Permissions

Challenger Research Journal does not require copyright transfer, only permission to publish and archive the article. Copyright holders retain copyright ownership via CC BY, granting a nonexclusive license to the journal and eScholarship to publish the article, meaning that the author may also publish it elsewhere. Before submitting an article to the journal, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared in any third party material. All articles published in the journal are subject to the journal’s author agreement, which is available in the first step of the submission process or by contacting us to request a copy.

Open Access Dtatement 

Challenger Research Journal is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Challenger Research Journal is published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0 International) license. For more information see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

Long-term preservation policy

All materials submitted to eScholarship are automatically deposited in CDL's Merritt Preservation Repository for long-term preservation.