Belügyi Szemle

Aims & Scope

Belügyi Szemle/Academic Journal of Internal Affairs (AJIA) is a monthly peer-reviewed flagship scientific publication (print ISSN 2062-9494 and online ISSN 2677-1632). As an independent, Hungarian and English-language journal, we strive to actively discuss Hungarian and international legal, administrative, public security, policing, and security issues. We encourage researchers, educators and professionals, as well as leaders and decision-makers, to submit their manuscripts from all over the world in multidisciplinary academic fields, including Hungarian and international comparative higher education, state and law, public administration, economics, global studies, policing and security studies, psychology, criminology, sociology, linguistics, and social work. We prefer submissions that represent new and demonstrably significant advances in the field and in under-researched aspects of less-known regions, countries, contexts, or populations. We favor multi-author research that crosses socially constructed boundaries, as well as scholarship that builds on underutilized theories, methodologies, and frameworks. We consider "research articles", "research summaries", "book reviews" and "reviews" that employ quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research designs, with reliable data collection and rigorous data analysis. Qualitative submissions must include conceptual frameworks grounded in theoretical and empirical literature, including longitudinal, multilevel, path, network, and spatial data analyses. Descriptive studies, program evaluations, literature reviews, surveys, institutional research, and/or small-N studies are unlikely to be considered. We consider qualitative submissions that utilize critical, emerging, or more traditional genres of qualitative or post-qualitative research. Qualitative submissions must include conceptual frameworks built on theoretical and empirical literature, and authors are encouraged to reflect on researcher positions. The goal of Belügyi Szemle/Academic Journal of Internal Affairs (AJIA) is to publish the most valuable research written by the Hungarian and international scientific community for its multidisciplinary readership. Submitted research undergoes rigorous peer review in a journal representing high-quality international development potential. Over the past 73 years, more than 1500 scholars and higher education professionals from 25 countries have submitted and published articles in the journal. Given the fields of science and our professional characteristics, our articles primarily feature Hungarian experts as authors; however, thanks to the international opening in the past decade, prominent European authors have also honored us with their writings. The development of our scientific and professional network is well demonstrated by the fact that Asian and American professionals also support the work of our editorial board with their valuable opinions and scientific results.

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