Aims
The Crossroads International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research (CIJFMR) publishes original, unpublished scholarship that:
- advances knowledge within law and legal studies, the social sciences, the humanities, or management and business studies;
- connects two or more of these domains to address problems that no single discipline can answer alone;
- rests on a clear research question, a sound and transparent method, and engagement with current scholarship and primary sources;
- speaks to scholars beyond its immediate specialism and, where relevant, to policymakers and practitioners.
The Journal welcomes doctrinal, theoretical, empirical, comparative, historical, critical and mixed-method research from every jurisdiction and region, and has a particular interest in work from and about India and the Global South.
Scope
1. Law and Legal Studies
- Constitutional, administrative and public law
- Criminal law, criminal justice, criminology and victimology
- Corporate, commercial, banking and insolvency law; competition law and economic regulation; taxation law
- International law, international humanitarian law and international trade law; comparative law and legal systems
- Human rights and civil liberties
- Cyber law, data protection, privacy and technology regulation; intellectual property law
- Environmental, energy and climate law
- Labour, employment and social security law; family law and personal laws
- Jurisprudence, legal theory and legal history
- Alternative dispute resolution, access to justice, legal education and the legal profession
2. Social Sciences
- Sociology and social anthropology
- Political science and international relations
- Public policy, public administration and governance
- Economics and development studies
- Gender studies, education, psychology and behavioural studies
- Social work and social welfare; demography, migration and urban studies; media and society
- Library and information science: information access and literacy, libraries and archives, scholarly communication and open access, bibliometrics and research evaluation, knowledge management, and digital libraries and preservation
3. Humanities
- History and historiography
- Philosophy, ethics and applied ethics
- Literature, literary theory and comparative literature; languages and linguistics
- Cultural and heritage studies; religious studies
- Media, communication and film studies; art and performance studies
4. Management and Business Studies
- Corporate governance and business ethics; corporate social responsibility and sustainability (ESG)
- Strategic management; organisational behaviour and human resource management
- Finance, banking, accounting and auditing; marketing and consumer behaviour
- Operations and supply chain management
- Entrepreneurship, MSMEs and family business
- Information systems, digital business and fintech; risk management and compliance
5. Interdisciplinary research
CIJFMR especially welcomes manuscripts that combine methods or perspectives from two or more domains. Illustrative themes include:
- Law, technology and society: artificial intelligence governance, platform regulation, data protection compliance, cyber security and digital public infrastructure.
- Regulation and the economy: competition and markets, financial regulation, insolvency, taxation and fiscal policy.
- Governance and public policy: institutional design, federalism, public sector reform and regulatory impact.
- Rights, justice and inclusion: human rights, social justice, gender, disability, caste and minority rights.
- Sustainability: climate governance, environmental justice and sustainable business.
- Culture, media and the economy: creative industries, intellectual property and media regulation.
- Organisations, ethics and law: corporate accountability, whistleblowing and compliance culture.
- Knowledge, information and society: the law and policy of libraries, archives and open access; copyright and access to knowledge; information ethics and misinformation; data governance; and the role of libraries in education and research.
Article types
| Type | Word limit |
|---|---|
| Research article | 5,000 to 10,000 words |
| Review article | 5,000 to 10,000 words |
| Short communication | 2,500 to 4,000 words |
| Case study or case comment | 3,000 to 6,000 words |
| Book review | 1,500 to 3,000 words |
Word limits exclude the abstract, footnotes, references, tables and appendices. Full requirements are set out in the Instructions to authors.
Outside the scope
The Journal does not normally consider:
- research in the natural, physical, medical or engineering sciences, unless the principal contribution lies within one of the Journal's four domains (for example, a legal or policy analysis of a medical technology);
- descriptive summaries of statutes, judgments or literature that offer no analysis or argument;
- opinion pieces, editorials and news reports;
- work previously published in any form, including in conference proceedings;
- student assignments or project reports that have not been developed into scholarly articles.
If you are unsure whether your manuscript fits, write to editor@cijfmr.com with the title and abstract before you submit.
Audience
CIJFMR serves academics, researchers, doctoral and postgraduate scholars, legal and management practitioners, policymakers, regulators and civil society organisations.