The Journal of Adab Al-Rafidain (RADAB) is a national, open-access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal issued quarterly under the Creative International License (CC-BY); the Journal has been published since 1972 on behalf of the College of Arts and the University of Mosul is the publisher. RADAB adopted a unique DOI number  [10.33899/radab] obtained for each article published since 2005 until now. The RADAB uses a double-blind peer-reviewing system to ensure the quality of the publication. All manuscripts should be submitted through our online manuscript management system. The author should first register in our system and then submit their manuscript. We will use iThenticate to check plagiarism before sending it to reviewers, who should be under 20%. We will notify corresponding authors about their manuscripts through our online system within one to two months.

RADAB publishes open-access articles, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication. All articles published in the RADAB are open-access and immediately available to read, download, and share. Articles published in the RADAB  are under the terms of a Creative Commons license 4.0 (CC-By), which permits users to read, print and download, or redistribute, translate the article, download for text and data mining purposes, reuse portions or extracts from the article in other works. The RADAB is committed to upholding Publication Ethics (COPE) and obligates the authors to avoid plagiarism and illegal citation.

The 'Adab Al-Rafidain journal accepts and publishes only unpublished research conducted by scholars of the College of Arts or by postgraduate students in all Humanities and social sciences spheres. All the journal issues, from the first issue of 1971 to now, are now accessible, and the number of publications available on the journal platform is more than 2,400 research studies. The editorial board is trying hard to get the journal indexed in the global citation database. The Article Processing Charge for the journal is 100 US$ for international authors and 150.000 ID for Iraqi authors inside Iraq.