Aims

BJRD aims to advance rigorous, ethical, and policy-relevant scholarship across disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields. The journal gives particular attention to research that contributes to knowledge, practice, policy, and development in Bhutan and comparable contexts, while also welcoming work of wider regional and international significance.

Scope

BJRD accepts manuscripts in English across education, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, environmental studies, governance, development studies, and related interdisciplinary fields. Submissions must demonstrate originality, conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, ethical integrity, and relevance to the journal’s readership.

Geographic and Intellectual Orientation

The journal particularly welcomes work relevant to Bhutan, the Himalayan region, South Asia, and comparable international contexts, while remaining open to research of wider regional or global significance.

Target Readership

BJRD serves researchers, academicians, university teachers, graduate students, policymakers, regulators, practitioners, development agencies, institutions, and readers interested in scholarship related to Bhutan and comparable contexts.

Types of Manuscripts Considered

• Original research articles: empirical, conceptual, theoretical, qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods studies that make a clear contribution to scholarship or practice.
• Review articles: systematic reviews, scoping reviews, critical literature reviews, or integrative analyses that synthesise evidence and identify research or policy implications.
• Research notes and short communications: brief scholarly reports presenting preliminary findings, methodological reflections, emerging issues, or timely policy-relevant evidence.
• Book reviews: analytical reviews of recent books relevant to the journal’s scope and readership.
• Special issue articles: articles submitted to approved thematic issues and handled under the same peer-review and ethics standards as regular submissions.

Editorial Threshold

Submissions must be original, relevant to BJRD, methodologically credible, analytically sound, ethically compliant, and clearly written. Manuscripts that are outside scope, insufficiently developed, poorly evidenced, or inconsistent with the journal’s ethical or editorial standards may be declined without external review.