Peer Review Process

Description

Publisher complies with the Committee on Publication Ethics Guidelines for Peer Reviewers which provides a comprehensive guide to the ethics of peer review.

Each submission is checked for suitability when received by the editorial board, and may be rejected without review if it is outside the scope of the journal, is obviously of insufficient quality, or is missing important sections. So, make sure the manuscript to be submitted is in accordance with the Author Guidelines.

JR-PIM Journal of Research and Development in Management Science be suggest at least two reviewers without the author's name and other identifying data. The reviewers will examine the feasibility of the manuscript. Peer review is carried out by double-blind review to ensure objectivity in assessing the feasibility of the manuscript.

Authors are encouraged to suggest suitable reviewers, but the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial office reserves the right to select different reviewers. The reason for asking authors to suggest reviewers is that they are best placed to know who is an expert in the field. In addition, the suggested reviewers may be suitable for other articles on the same topic. Therefore, obtaining these names can help the editorial office to ensure that it is approaching suitable people to review all articles.

Initial Review by Section Editor

Before the manuscript is sent to the peer reviewer, the Section Editor will first conduct an initial review, whether the submission has followed the journal guidelines or not. To that end, here are guidelines for editors:

  1. Editors should deal with any papers assigned to them in a timely fashion.
  2. Editors should endeavour to handle all papers assigned to them, irrespective of the paper’s subject area, and the return of a paper to a Section Editor for reassignment should only be exceptional. Section Editors try to assign papers appropriately but also to balance loads on individual editors across the Editorial Board; sometimes the assignment of a paper whose scope is outside that of the assigned editor is unavoidable.
  3. Editors should provide written feedback to authors as regards any decision made even if that decision apparently follows obviously from reviewers’ comments, in which case one or two sentences summarising the reviewers’ comments is appropriate.
  4. Editors should monitor the performance of peer reviewers and take steps to ensure this is of high standard.
  5. Editors must pay close attention to the implementation of the double anonymized peer review process.

 Peer Review Process

Manuscripts submitted to JR-PIM Journal of Research and Development in Management Science will undergo a selection and assessment process by the Board of Editors to ensure their accordance with the writing guideline, focus, and scope, and that they are of excellent academic quality.  The manuscripts will be reviewed using the double-blind peer review method in which case neither authors nor reviewers know each other's identities. 

Desk Review. At the desk review stage, manuscripts will be examined to ensure that they have met the writing guideline, focus, and scope with excellent academic quality. If they do not meet the conditions, the author will be given the opportunity to revise their manuscript according to the given criteria. However, there is also the possibility that the manuscript will be directly rejected. 

Peer review. When the manuscript has passed the desk review stage, it will then be delivered to two reviewers who are experts in the field of the submitted manuscript. The review process will be done within three weeks. Manuscripts that did not successfully pass the desk review process will not proceed to this stage. 

Reviewer's decision. The reviewers will provide the following recommendations: 

  1. Accepted; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication;
  2. Accepted with minor revisions; means that the manuscript is acceptable for publication once it is revised in response to the reviewers concerns;
  3. Accepted with major revisions; means that substantive inadequacies in the manuscript, such as data analysis, the main theory used, and rewriting of paragraphs, need to be revised;
  4. Rejected; means that the manuscript is not acceptable for publication or the given reviews relate to very basic issues.

The reviewers decision will be considered by the Board of Editors to determine the ensuing process of the manuscript. 

Revision Stage. Once the manuscript has been received with notations of minor or major revisions, it will be returned to the author with a review summary form. For manuscripts accepted with major revisions, authors are allotted three weeks to revise. Whereas for manuscripts accepted with minor revisions, one week is allotted for revision. When returning the revised manuscript, the author is required to fill in and attach the review summary form.  

Final decision. At this stage, the manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Board of Editors to ensure that the author has revised in response to the reviewers concerns. In this final decision, the manuscript may still be rejected if the author did not seriously conduct the revisions necessary. 

Proofread. Once the manuscript has been deemed acceptable by the Board of Editors, it will undergo a proofreading process to maintain linguistic quality. 

Publication confirmation. At this stage, the final layout of the manuscript will be resent to the author to ensure that the content is in accordance with the authors writing. At this stage, the author may revise any typographical error found in the final manuscript. Once confirmation from the author is given, the Editorial Secretary will process the manuscript for online publication on the website as well as a print publication.   

Editor Decision

Editors’ recommendation to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based on the peer reviews and their own view on the paper’s importance, originality and clarity, the study’s validity and its relevance to the remit of the journal. Editors can recommend to immediately reject a paper if the material does not meet the standard of JR-PIM Journal of Research and Development in Management Science. Editors should not reverse a decision to accept a submission unless serious problems are identified with the submission.

The Editor-in-Chief will make a decision of:

Decline Submission Revision Accept Submission

Decline Submission

This means that the submission has not passed peer review and is unsuitable for further consideration in JR-PIM Journal of Research and Development in Management Science Research. The Editors may be rejected the submission without review if it is outside the scope of the journal, is obviously of insufficient quality, or is missing important sections.

Revision

This will require the Authors to make changes to the manuscript. Authors are asked to modify their manuscript in light of comments received from reviewers and editors and to submit a new version for consideration within 2 weeks of receiving the decision letter. A point-by-point explanation of how comments have been addressed must be supplied with the revised version of the paper. Revisions may undergo further peer review and papers may undergo more than one round of revision. If the authors do not revise their papers to the satisfaction of the editors, the paper can still be declined from publication in JR-PIM Journal of Research and Development in Management Science.

Accept Submission

This means the submission is accepted for publication in JR-PIM Journal of Research and Development in Management Science Research with or without peer-review process by external experts and can proceed to the copyediting. Submissions may be accepted without external peer review (only an initial review by the editor) when the manuscript is deemed very feasible. After final checking in the editorial office, acceptance is confirmed and the paper is forwarded to the publishers for publication.

Galley Proofread

The author has the opportunity to proofread the galley within three days of receiving the message. Correction must be restricted to printer errors. Once everyone is satisfied, the submission is scheduled for publication in a future issue.