Central Asian Journal of Sustainability and Climate Research

The publications of the papers will contribute to the development and advance of the DKU Center of Climate and Sustainability.

The journal hosted by the DKU Center of Climate and Sustainability seeks submissions of original research works in line with the CRS thematic areas. Accepted papers will be open-access publications issued at the NRI DKU’s website dedicated to the dissemination of research to interested academic and scientific community and broader audience. Each paper will be assigned separate DOI followed by a discrete appearance date and tailored announcement and dissemination.
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Article types

Scientific articles

Submission requirements

The exact structure and allocation of sections are at the author’s discretion. It is, however, required that each submitted paper contains a clear statement of research question and goals, a conceptual framework and analytical framework, description of method and data, a narrative explanatory to an author’s argument or proposed evidence, analysis of results/findings. Content-wise, an author can choose to explain and provide evidence of validation of own invention or analyze specific ecological and/or socio-economic improvements following from an application of own inventions or those well-established and being widely circulated.

Research rigor requirement:

The papers should possess scientific research rigour. Namely, every submission should contain a clear and concise account for the level of theorizing, method used and what kind of data / materials has informed the analysis. Work based on positivist and social constructionist ontologies are welcome. Description of crude data and/or audit records of each research stage is encouraged whenever it contributes to a better auditability and evaluation of authors’ claim, and does not exceed 10000-word count. The expected minimum of a submission is 5000 words. Acknowledging that practical application of science takes on inter- and multidisciplinary character, it is required for authors to be consistent with theoretical and conceptual inventory of terms taken place in a similar kind of research. Authors should briefly outline a chosen research paradigm in the introductory section of a working paper.

Peer-review process

All submissions will undergo a blind review by the editorial board and external reviewers. Research should not have been published previously in any indexed form and authors should make a clear disclaimer if the ideas or parts of the working papers have been presented elsewhere. The editorial board retains the final decision on whether a submission satisfies originality requirement to be published in CAJSCR.

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