Guidelines for Authors
Article Submission
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors who do not adhere to these guidelines.
- Uploaded two files of the manuscript: one with author details and the other without author details (institution, department, current position email address, and contact numbers).
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author's Guidelines i.e. APA citation-referencing style.
- The maximum similarity index of the article can be up to 17%. The article whose similarity index is higher than 17% will be rejected.
- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in a Microsoft Word document.
Review Policy
To ensure the excellence of the article's publication in the Journal of Economic Sciences Research Journal, a complete, thorough, comprehensive, and confidential review is adopted. The review is done by independent and competent scholars who give their recommendations on the article being presented for publication.
Selection of Reviewers
A careful selection of national and international reviewers is made while keeping their area of research in view. To get an unbiased review, the names of reviewers are kept confidential. All works submitted for publication are reviewed objectively without regard to authors’ race, gender, religious view, ethnicity, citizenship, political tendency, age, and reputation.
Tasks of Editor Decision for publication
• To ensure Objectivity.
• To keep the process Confidential.
Declaration of opinion by Editor / Reviewers
Reviewers of the Journal of Economic Sciences Research Journal provide an explanatory short paragraph(s) reflecting their opinions and proof of objectivity in the review process. Journal of Economic Sciences expects free declaration of opinion from authors, editors, and reviewers. Hence reviewers are expected to avoid any arrangements that might potentially influence their recommendations or decisions of agreement or disagreement.
Responsibilities of Reviewers
The reviewing process is expected to be academic, honest, courteous, precise, and constructive. The basic characteristics of & a high-quality review are the following:
The reviewers should outline weak and strong expectations of the work with respect to its organization's end methodology and also comment on each of these. The reviewers should express their opinions on the work concerning whether it has unethical content or is below the standard for acceptance. The reviewers should give helpful suggestions for the improvement of the research work. The reviewers should have constructive and professional critiques addressed to the authors. The reviewers should provide a fair perspective to have a decision of acceptance {or revision). The reviewers are expected to identify the works that do not include citations or have not cited usage of other works and specify which parts are reproduced by the author without citation. The reviewers should also state the outstanding similarities between the work submitted to the Journal of Economic Sciences Research Journal and any other study published in another journal. The reviewers should not contact the author directly or indirectly if a referee is not able to review the work or complete the review with some delay, he/she should inform the editor in time, If the reviewers suspect a violation, they can inform the editor about this easily and they should not share the issue with others unless they receive a directive concerning this.
Review Process
All manuscripts submitted are sent for an anonymous ‘double-blind’ peer-review process in order to produce quality research. Referees do not know the names of the authors whose papers they review. Peer reviewers are asked to give their opinion about significant issues relating to the originality and quality of the article and to judge papers.
Journal of Economic Sciences Research Journal follows a three-tier review process.
• In the first tier, each paper is run on the anti-plagiarism software and reviewed for relevance by the coordinators of the editorial committee.
• In the second stage, if the article is found to be relevant and plagiarism-free, the paper is sent to the reviewers. Suggestions and comments by the reviewers are strictly implemented by sending the papers back to the authors.
• In the third and final stage, the editorial team analyzes whether the recommended changes (where applicable) have been incorporated or not, and a decision about acceptance of the paper is made. Only papers of the highest research quality are accepted for publication.
Article Processing and Publication Fee
The Management has decided not to charge any fee.