iRASD Journal of Management (iRASD-JOM) is an international, double-blind, peer-reviewed and open-access research journal addressing the issues of Management. iRASD-JOM is published by the International Research Alliance for Sustainable Development - iRASD.

iRASD-JOM aims to provide a valued platform for research on management-orientated themes and matters. It publishes articles of a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature and empirical research from old-fashioned disciplines and managerial functions. This journal includes articles on Management and all related management disciplines. iRASD-JOM has been publishing since 2019.

Average Time to First Decision

The journal takes pride in its prompt initial evaluation of submitted manuscripts. On average, authors can expect a decision on their manuscript within one week of submission. This period includes both standard desk reviews and desk decisions.

Review Time

Authors can anticipate a comprehensive editorial review process, from submission to the final decision, within 3 to 4 weeks. This duration encompasses the thorough examination of manuscripts, reviewer feedback, and the editorial decision-making process.

Publication Time

Once a manuscript is accepted, the journal is committed to swift publication. On average, authors will witness their article appearing online within 3 to 4 days from the date of acceptance. This prompt publication time is a testament to our dedication to disseminating scholarly works efficiently.

Publication Frequency

 Information about the Journal 

iRASD Journal of Management (JOM) does not charge a submission fee to encourage free submissions. However, authors pay a one-time Article Processing Charge (APC) to cover the costs of peer review administration and Management, professional production of articles in PDF and other formats, website management, membership of various international organizations like CrossRef, iThenticate, and Portico, etc. and dissemination of published papers in various venues, in addition to other publishing costs. 

APC is based on the affiliation of a corresponding author. Please see the table below for details about APC.

The following activities and operations will explain how our APC is justified.

1.Publishing Platform/ Website

iRASD JOM develops and maintains its own online submission and peer-review website. We also run several platforms to offer different types of services to research scholars.

2. Publishing Operations

2.1. Triaging—filtering of papers upon submission by internal staff and editorial board members.

2.2. Organization of peer-review— iRASD JOM provides a high degree of assistance to Academic Editors so they can only focus on editorial decisions. We employ in-house editors to invite reviewers, collect review reports, communicate with authors and reviewers, correspond with authors about revisions, etc.

2.3. Production—including copy-editing, typesetting, copy-editing XML and PDF conversion, and language editing. iRASD JOM provides excellent quality English editing for all accepted papers in the APC.

2.4. Proofreading—Corresponding with authors to approve the final text and requesting any missing information.

2.5. Indexing & archiving— iRASD JOM has a team dedicated to indexing relations that advise on the eligibility of a journal for application to be indexed in different databases. Our team communicates closely with the contact persons at the different databases and receives regular updates on the status of applications. We dedicate time to keep ourselves updated on any evaluation criteria or application procedure changes.

3. Marketing and Communication

iRASD promotes its journals and articles through sponsorships of conferences, scholarly society events, other promotional activities, and a series of awards to support researchers.

4. General

4.1. Management and administration include costs related to salaries of non-editorial staff and other business costs, including CrossRef and iThenticate membership, DOI charges, Portico, and membership of other paid indexing services.

Corresponding authors are advised to contact the journal editor about account information once a manuscript is accepted for final publication. 

Note: iRASD JOM will no longer officially blacklist authors who withdraw their manuscripts before the completion of the peer-review process. However, using peer-reviewed resources without the intent or ability to publish is problematic and has serious consequences (Withdrawal Policy) for the authors. Before submitting, please ensure you have the funds to pay the APC if accepted.

Ethical and Malpractice Policy

Ethical Policy

iRASD Journal of Management (iRASD-JOM) follows rigorous ethical standards for publishing articles. iRASD-JOM ethics and malpractice statement is conceptualized on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. The Author (s) are solely responsible for the originality and reliability of the research outcomes and must comply with the following rules.

• Data and findings of the research shall be provided only if they are real and reliable.
• The findings of the highlighted research issue must be original.
• The contribution of other works shall be acknowledged and referred to appropriately. Data sources and supporting evidence must be cited accurately in the text and references section.
• Any manuscript shall not be submitted if it is already published or sent for publication in another journal.
• There shall be no violation of copyrights in the text, tables, graphics, and formulas of the manuscript.
• iRASD-JOM strictly condemns breaches of research ethics and copyright infringement in submitted articles. Authors are responsible for any manifestations of plagiarism in their manuscripts, and the editorial board takes rigorous steps to prevent such violations.
• The authors are accountable for the accuracy of provided information, i.e., facts, personal, geographical, companies, organizational and institutional names, etc. 
• The opinions expressed in research articles are by the authors and do not necessarily suggest the viewpoints of the editorial board. Therefore, no obligation is imposed on the iRASD-JOM editorial team in this context.

Complaint & Misconduct Policy

 iRASD Journal of Management (iRASD-JOM) welcomes complaints by considering them an opportunity for improvement and aims to respond quickly and constructively.

What is a Complaint?

Our comprehension of a complaint is as follows:

1. The complainant defines his or her expression of unhappiness as a complaint.
2. We infer that the complainant is not simply disagreeing with a decision we have made or something we have published but thinks there has been a process failure—for example, an unacceptably long delay or a rude response—or a severe misjudgment.
3. The complaint must be about something within the responsibility of JOMs' editorial division, i.e., content or process.

Complaint Making Process

• All complaints will be acknowledged.
• Complaints should be made either by sending an email to editor.jom@internationalrasd.org or by posting to the address "House No. 219, Model Town B, Bahawalpur, Pakistan".
• Whenever possible, complaints will be dealt with by the editorial team member to whom they are made. If that person cannot deal with the complaint, he or she will refer it to the editor-in-chief.
• If the complainant remains unhappy, complaints should be escalated to the editor-in-chief, whose decision is final.
• If possible, a definitive response will be made within two weeks. If this is not possible, an interim response will be given within two weeks. Interim responses will be provided until the complaint is finally resolved.

 The process to Deal with Issues of Misconduct

iRASD-JOM believes institutions and journals should promote best practices among researchers, authors, reviewers, and editors. To maintain integrity and deal with misconduct allegations, the editor can be contacted at editor.jom@internationalrasd.org or the official address "House No. 219, Model Town B, Bahawalpur, Pakistan". The editor is responsible for investigating misconduct by researchers and finding misconduct that could affect the reliability or attribution of published work (e.g., fabrication or plagiarism). Where possible, the evidence could be provided to support allegations of misconduct or questionable practices (e.g. copies of overlapping publications, evidence of plagiarism). Retractions or corrections are issued when findings of misconduct arising from appropriate investigations are provided. Hence, it is advised that the authors and reviewers read the guidelines provided on the journal's website and strictly adhere to all aspects of publication ethics.

Corrections and Retractions Policy

If there is suspicion of misbehaviour or alleged fraud, the journals and/or publisher will investigate following COPE guidelines. If there are valid concerns after an investigation, the authors will be contacted and allowed to address the issue. Depending on the situation, this may result in the journal and/or publisher's implementation of the following measures, including, but not limited to:

• Rejecting the manuscript if it is still under consideration.
• If the article has already been published online, depending on the nature and severity of the infraction:

1. An erratum/correction may be included in the article.
2. The article may be placed with an editor's note or editorial expression of concern.
3. Alternatively, in severe cases, retraction of the article may occur.

The reason will be given in the published erratum/correction, editor's note, editorial expression of concern, or retraction notice.

NOTE: Please note that retraction means that the article is maintained on the platform watermarked "retracted," and the explanation is provided in a note linked to the watermarked article.

• The Author's institution may be informed.
• A notice of suspected transgression of ethical standards in the peer review system may be included as part of the Author's and article's bibliographic record.

Please see the author name change policy for the authors intending to change their names and wishing to correct them in their published works.

Author Name Change

An author who has changed their names for reasons such as gender transition or religious conversion may request for their names, pronouns, and other relevant biographical information to be corrected on papers published before the change.  The author can choose for this correction to happen silently, in which case there will be no note flagging the change on either the PDF or the HTML of the paper. Alternatively, they may do so by a formal public author correction.

Removal of Published Content

In exceptional circumstances, the iRASD Journal of Management (iRASD JOM) reserves the right to remove an article, chapter, book, or other content from the online platforms of the International Research Alliance for Sustainable Development (iRASD). Such action may be taken when (i) iRASD Journal of Management (iRASD JOM) has been advised that content is defamatory, infringes a third party's intellectual property right, right to privacy, or other legal rights, or is otherwise unlawful; (ii) a court or government order has been issued, or is likely to be issued, requiring removal of such content; (iii) content, if acted upon, would pose an immediate and serious risk to health. Removal may be temporary or permanent. Bibliographic metadata (e.g. title and authors) will be retained and accompanied by a statement explaining why the content has been removed.

Authorship Criteria

Authorship confers credit and has important academic, social, and financial implications. Authorship also implies responsibility and accountability for published work. The following recommendations are intended to ensure that contributors who have made substantive intellectual contributions to a paper are given credit as authors and that contributors credited as authors understand their role in taking responsibility and being accountable for what is published.

The iRASD Journal of Management (iRASD-JOM) recommends that authorship be based on any of the following criteria:

Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; OR; Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content;

AND

Final approval of the version to be published; AND; Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

In addition to being accountable for the parts of the work he or she has done, an author should be able to identify which co-authors are responsible for specific other parts of the work. In addition, authors should have confidence in the integrity of the contributions of their co-authors.

Conflict of Interest Policy

The editorial committee is responsible for avoiding any conflict of interest in the research publications that may affect the reviewers' interpretation of results and assessment. In case of any potential conflict of interest, the Author (s) shall provide a clear statement about bearing the responsibility. They shall disclose the possible conflicts of interest that can influence the decision about the publication of the manuscript.      

The editorial board will not consider manuscripts for review if competing interests arise from the collaborative or competitive connections of any of the Author (s) or relevant institutions. It is desired that all contributors shall disclose conflicting interests while submitting the manuscript. If there is any such revelation after the research is published, corrections or expressions of interest and retraction will be issued where needed.

Plagiarism Screening Policy

iRASD Journal of Management is published by the International Research Alliance for Sustainable Development - iRASD. iRASD has a membership of iThenticate an online tool to help the editors verify the originality of submitted manuscripts. All submitted manuscripts are scanned with Turnitin to calculate the similarity index or plagiarism.

What is PLAGIARISM?

Plagiarism is when an author attempts to pass off someone else work as his or her own. Duplicate publication, sometimes called self-plagiarism, occurs when an author reuses substantial parts of his or her published work without providing the appropriate references. This can range from getting an identical paper published in multiple journals to salami-slicing, where authors add small amounts of new data to a previous paper.

PLAGIARISM Policy of iRASD Journal of Management

1. iRASD Journal of Management is committed to promoting and disseminating original research work related to economic sciences.
2. Plagiarism comes in several forms, so the IRASD Journal of Management cannot tolerate plagiarism in any form at any stage as it shows unethical publishing behaviour.
3. All selected manuscripts will be screened for plagiarism by using iThenticate software.
4. The manuscript in which the plagiarism is detected is handled based on the extent of the plagiarism. A manuscript with less than a 19% similarity index can be accepted for publication.
5. If the manuscript has plagiarism < 15%, the manuscript will be given an ID and sent to the review process.
6. If the manuscript has plagiarism of 15-30%, the manuscript will be given an ID and sent back to the Author for content revision.
7. If plagiarism is detected by more than 30%, it is found that the authors are very unlikely to revise the manuscript and submit the revised version. However, authors are welcome to do the required revisions and submit the manuscript as a new submission.

In the case of suspected plagiarism in a published article:

1. A specific process is followed to manage a case of plagiarism. The iRASD Journal of Management follows the guidelines in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowcharts (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).
2. The person who advised us of the situation is informed about the process to be followed.
3. The articles are compared to check the degree of copying.
4. All Editors of the iRASD Journal of Management are informed and asked for their comments.
5. The corresponding author of the article in question is contacted with documentary evidence of the plagiarism case and is asked for a response.
6. If the authors are found guilty of plagiarism
1. The editor of the journal where the original plagiarized article was published and the authors of the plagiarized article are informed.
2. The iRASD Journal of Management publishes an official retraction of the paper.
3. The online version of the iRASD Journal of Management article is withdrawn from the OJS host site, and
4. The iRASD Journal of Management will not publish any article by any concerned authors for five years.

Archiving Policy

iRASD Journal of Management (iRASD-JOM) preserves its published content on a long-term basis, and for this purpose, we submit it to Portico.

Repository Policy

iRASD Journal of Management (iRASD-JOM) allows authors to submit their published work in any institutional or other repositories like Arxiv, PubMed Central, Zenodo, OpenAIRE, CORE, and other research institutions' repositories.

Licensing Policy

iRASD Journal of Management (iRASD-JOM) uses a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License to protect the Author's work from misuse. Under this license, the Author (s) published in iRASD-JOM retain their scholarly work's copyright and publishing rights. All other authors using the content of iRASD-JOM are required to cite the names of the Author (s) and the journal in their work. Articles of iRASD-JOM can be read and shared for noncommercial purposes under the following conditions:
BY: Attribution must be given to the source (Attribution)
NC: Works may not be used for commercial purposes (Noncommercial)

Copyright Policy

Author (s) retain the copyrights and will grant iRASD (JOM) the non-exclusive rights of the first publication of the manuscript electronically and in print form and to identify iRASD (JOM) as the original publisher under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License. It will allow others to share the content explicitly indicating the authorship and its initial publication in iRASD (JOM). Under these licensing terms, the author (s) confirm that all the content of the published manuscript will be distributed in the public domain, and other researchers may use it exclusively for the non-profit scientific purpose (s) with the obligatory acknowledgement of authorship.

Author (s) reserves unconditional rights to copy and reproduce the published work for teaching, use it in other research and redistribute, share or place the copy of the article to any other medium or format, even commercially only if iRASD (JOM) is explicitly acknowledged as the original publisher. However, the Author (s) cannot apply any legal or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything already permitted under the license terms.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal. They will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Funding Source

iRASD Journal of Management (JOM) is fully sponsored by the International Research Alliance for Sustainable Development.