Afarand Scholarly Publishing Institute (Formerly known and worked as its registered name Danesh Afarand Zistagen Company-DAZCo) has begun its activity since Winter 2003 and is definitely the pioneer of scholarly publishing in Iran. This is a private institute that constituted from faculties of different universities as Editorial Team which govern every action of the institute and has a general director, Hamed Bastin (PhD of Logics and Scientific Methodology), with more than 15 years’ experience of managing scholarly journals.