Our edited open access journal aims to provide a forum for researchers, educators, theoreticians and practitioners to present the studies and research results of the social sciences from sociology, social policy, political science, economics, education, pedagogy, ethnography, history and anthropology together and side by side, reflecting on each other's achievements. Today, there is a growing demand among representatives of the social sciences for people from related and co-disciplines to be aware of each other's achievements, and of the latest research trends, interests and achievements of the academic world outside the narrow professional boundaries. Our journal aims to provide a professional and scientific platform for national and international experts.

The journal publishes four issues a year.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted for publication will be peer reviewed anonymously. The peer-review process is a double-blind review process. Proofreading is done through the Open Journal System. In all cases, the invited reviewers are professionals with an academic degree (PhD). We invite the most eminent experts from different institutions in the country to proofread our journals. The peer reviewers will prepare their review on the basis of a set of evaluation criteria, including a summarising textual opinion. The average duration of the peer review process is four weeks. Details of the proofreading process are available in the Code of Ethics.

Open Access Policy

The CROSS-SECTIONS Social Science Journal is indexed by DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), EBSCO, ProQuest, CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library) and MTMT.

CROSS-SECTION's mission is to disseminate scientific publications. Our purpose with open access publication is for the published research results be available, free of charge for anyone and to make scientific information visible and accessible.

CROSS-SECTION publishes original, previously not published manuscripts only.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
For articles published before the CC BY licence was applied (before 2020), the CC BY-NC-ND licence will continue to apply.

The language of publication
The journal publishes papers in Hungarian and English.

Charges
The submission and publication of the articles is free of charge.

Copyright

The journal respects copyright law. The journal owns the copyright of the published papers.

Archiving – Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving

The studies published in the CROSS-SECTIONS Social Science Journal are archived by the Electronic Archive of the University of Debrecen (DEA), the Electronic Periodicals Archive Database (EPA) of the National Széchényi Library and the Sherpa/Romeo system (Blue – Archivable postprint [final, edited manuscript] or publisher's version/PDF).

Privacy Statement
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Other
Each published study receives a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) number.

The journal's DOI identifier is: 10.18392/METSZ