Peer Review Process

The Journal of Management Info (JMI) ensures a double-blind peer-review of every article before publication.  All articles submitted to the journal need to pass the review process before publishing. Peer review is important to maintain the quality and integrity of scientific and scholarly research and it is aimed to evaluate the quality, validity, and originality of the research articles. The publication and peer review process are summarized in a flow chart below:

The corresponding author will submit the manuscript through our online submission system. At the first stage the articles will be scrutinized and evaluated by the editorial team, if it is according to the scope of the Journal, meet basic standards as outlined Authors Guidelines and Ethical Statement. In case the scope and topic of the manuscript are not related to JMI, the editor may recommend the author for publication in another journal of Readers Insight more related to the subject matter of the manuscript. However, this recommendation does not increase the chances of publication and the manuscript has to pass through the review process of that particular journal. In case the editor concludes that the article does not meet basic standards of research quality, language, and research ethics and the author should improve them before the manuscript is forwarded for peer review, an email with required modifications will be sent to the corresponding author. However, if the editor concludes that there is little room for improvement, he/she may desk reject the article, stating the specific reasons and suggesting the author submit another article for publication. This process would take 1 to 2 weeks approximately.

After the manuscript has gone through editorial review, the section editor will send requests for reviews to multiple reviewers. The section editor will also ensure that the reviewer is a specialist in the subject matter of the manuscript. In case a specific reviewer is not available, he/she will search for a reviewer based on the expertise in the specific field relevant to the wider subject domain of the topic in the manuscript such as psychology, business management, sociology, etc.  It is also the duty of the section editor to ensure that there is no conflict of interest of the reviewers with the research in focus. The section editor will also regularly follow up with reviewers to ensure the timely completion of the review process.

The review process is a Double-Blind Peer-Review. This indicates that the authors will be unknown to the reviewers. It is also the responsibility of the authors to ensure blind submission such that that title page is separate from the main body of the manuscript and there is no information in the main body that reveals author's identity. The reviewers will return their recommendations and decision to the editor who will forward them to the author(s) as general and specific comments. The editor will assess the reviewer’s comments and recommendations and make a decision about the acceptance of the manuscript for publication. The section editor will forward the recommendations and peer-review analysis to the Editor in chief. The final decision on the first evaluation of the manuscript lies with the Editor-in-Chief, who would make a decision and communicate to the author via section editor. The decision can be one of the three possibilities 1) “Rejected” 2) “accepted as it is without changes”, 3) “conditionally accepted with modifications”.  The extent of changes varies from manuscript to manuscript and authors are allocated enough time to make the recommended amendments. However, if changes are extensive, the manuscript may go through a peer-review process after re-submission, preferably with original reviewers (depending upon availability). In case there are minor changes that author(s) successfully implemented; the editorial board may accept resubmission “accepted as it is without changes”. For modifications that are extensive, the manuscript is subjected to the peer-review process in an iterative manner. Even in the case of rejection, reviewers' and editors’ comments that are constructive and may be useful to authors to improve their work are passed on anonymously.

The average manuscript processing time from submission to publication is 2 months.

 

Publication Frequency 

Journal of Management Info Publishes four regular issues a year (from 2014 onwards). JMI publishes 4 issues per year which may contain 5-15 articles. Occasionally, JMI can publish special issues about specific research themes. These special issues can have specific editors. For these special issues, specific calls for papers will be announced 6-12 months prior.