Journal of Social Movements is developed as an open-access scholarly journal for peer-reviewed research in social movements, collective action, civic engagement, community empowerment, public participation, and social change. The journal is managed through Open Journal Systems to support transparent editorial workflow, online submission, peer review, production, and publication.

The journal identity, e-ISSN, DOI prefix, publisher, editorial information, and publication policies are maintained on the journal website so that authors, reviewers, readers, and accreditation assessors can verify the journal profile from the homepage and related policy pages.