EDITORIAL POLICIES

 

Journal of Management Practices, Humanities and Social Sciences (JMPHSS) is a prominent peer-reviewed, open-access journal available online. The primary aim of JMPHSS is to disseminate scientific knowledge and foster interdisciplinary discourse, bridging various fields within the social sciences. The publication adheres to ethical standards outlined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), ensuring integrity across all facets of the publishing process.

Ethical guidelines govern the conduct of all stakeholders involved in publishing with JMPHSS, including authors, editors, peer reviewers, and the broader scholarly community. Published articles undergo rigorous peer review, serving as pillars of the scientific method and reflecting the caliber of authors' work and institutional support. Global Illuminators, as the publisher of JMPHSS, upholds its responsibilities diligently, ensuring that editorial decisions remain independent of commercial influences such as advertising or reprint revenue.

Editors hold the following responsibilities:

  • All the steps involved in evaluation should be strictly adhered to so that the eminence of the research can be maintained. Any decision concerning the acceptance, rejection, major and minor revision of any paper should be made on the basis of the standard quality guidelines of the respective journal.
  • When any paper is being submitted, author should guarantee the authorities that the paper has not been submitted for getting published in any other journal. On the same lines, Editor is also not allowed to submit the work under review with any other person or institution except with the consent of the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers and the publisher.
  • The sole criterion of evaluation should be the eminence of research used in the paper and should not be biased in any sense.

Reviewers need to fulfill the following duties:

  • The effective blinded peer review process facilitates the editors to improve the paper quality and take accurate decisions regarding every submission
  • It is important that all the submissions considered for peer review should be taken as the secret essays and editor needs to keep them confidential throughout the process.
  • If the concerned reviewer is not able to review the manuscript within the given deadline, it should be brought to the editor’s knowledge. Even if the reviewer does not have the skills and expertise for manuscript review, it should be duly informed to the editor.
  • The reviewer should check for the fact that the works cited in the paper are actually backed by the corresponding research works. It is the duty of the reviewer to make sure that the materials given in the article are backed by authentic citations and should make out any work not considered by the author. If reviewer doubts the submitted manuscript to be plagiarized, then he/she must apprise the editor of this information.
  • Author should not be targeted with personal critique. Referees should support the author’s efforts through their comments.

Authors should be aware of the following facts:

  • The manuscripts that are found to be plagiarized above the minimum tolerable level will be rejected before entering into the review phase. The concerned personnel should reconfirm the manuscript’s originality by meticulously checking the document for any trace of plagiarism.
  • Author should guarantee that the submitted manuscript is not being considered for publication in any other journal. It will be considered against ethics if any manuscript is found to be under review with more than one journal.
  • Authors should explicitly mention the reactions of the chemicals, procedures or equipment utilized in the research if any.
  • Only the real contributor of the paper can claim to be the owner of the manuscript submitted. Authors’ names should be stated according to their contributions in the paper. Author should only add the names of those people who were actually involved in bringing together of the corresponding manuscript.
 

Peer Review Process and Time

Peer Review

The Journal of Management Practices, Humanities and Social Sciences follows a rigorous Double-Blind Review procedure, ensuring fairness, efficiency, and excellence in article quality. This process maintains anonymity for both authors and reviewers, reducing potential biases arising from factors like nationality or previous controversial work. By protecting author anonymity, the review process emphasizes the assessment of manuscript content rather than the reputations of well-known authors. This statement is based on the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) Code of Conduct and Best Practice Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers.

Article Review Process

Upon submission, articles undergo several sequential stages before publication:

Initial Review Stage (7 to 10 days): Submitted articles are assessed by the journal's editor to ensure compliance with the "Guide for Authors" format and alignment with the journal's objectives and scope. Articles meeting these criteria proceed to the next stage, where a peer reviewer is assigned.

Review Stage (6-8 weeks): Articles passing the initial review are sent to two or more expert reviewers.

Articles accepted with minor or major revisions must be revised in accordance with the reviewers’ comments and suggestions. Subsequently, reviewers will provide their reports to the editor, recommending one of the following actions:

  • Accept Submission
  • Revisions Required
  • Decline Submission

Editors will base their decisions on these recommendations and reviewer comments, with the possibility of seeking additional review if necessary (Second Round). The Editor in Chief will ultimately determine the acceptance, revision, or rejection of the manuscript. After addressing reviewer comments or justifying lack of revisions, and upon payment of fees, articles enter the publication queue. Authors receive formal notification of final acceptance.

Accepted manuscripts will be published in consideration of the sequence of acceptance dates, authors' geographical distribution, and the order of acceptance. The publication process typically takes 6-7 months from submission.

 

 Publication Frequency

JMPHSS is a bi-monthly journal.

 

Abstracting and Indexing

JMPHSS is indexed by following

  • HEC "Y" Category
  • ULRICHWEB PERIODICAL DIRECTORY
  • Cabells Journalytics (USA)
  • PUBLONS
  • GOOGLE SCHOLAR
  • CROSSREF
  • DIMENSIONS
  • SSRN
  • ACADEMIA
  • MENDELEY
  • SCILIT
  • ERIH PLUS
  • RePEc
  • HJRS HEC Pakistan
  • OCLC
  • WorldCat
  • CiteFactor
  • EuroPub
 

Open Access Policy

Journal of Management Practices, Humanities and Social Sciences (JMPHSS) provides immediate open access to its content, operating under the premise that freely available work promotes a wider global exchange of ideas. All peer-reviewed research articles published in this journal are universally available over the internet without any restrictions on usage frequency. Articles are presented in a user-friendly format immediately upon publication.

This statement is based on the OASPA, Budapest Open Access Initiative, and Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.

 

Misconduct/Retraction Policy

JMPHSS takes seriously all allegations of potential misconduct. If there is a suspicion of misconduct, If, after investigation, the allegation seems to raise valid concerns, the accused author will be contacted and given an opportunity to address the issue. If misconduct has been established beyond reasonable doubt, this may result in the Editor-in-Chief’s implementation of the following measures, including, but not limited to:

  • If the article is still under consideration, it may be rejected and returned to the author.
  • If the article has already been published online, depending on the nature and severity of the infraction, either an erratum will be placed with the article or in severe cases retraction of the article will occur. The reason must be given in the published erratum or retraction note. Please note that retraction means that the paper is maintained on the platform, watermarked “retracted” and explanation for the retraction is provided in a note linked to the watermarked article.
  • The paper's HTML version gets eliminated.
  • The author’s institution may be informed

Retraction: On rare occasions, when the scientific information in an article is substantially undermined, it may be necessary for published articles to be retracted. JMPHSS will follow the COPE guidelines in such cases.

Retracted articles are indexed and linked to the original article.

 

Conflicts of Interest Statement

For researches being conducted with human subjects, the design, conduct, and reporting of results for the trial should be based on the Clinical Practice guidelines (such as the Good Clinical Practice in Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-Regulated Clinical Trials (USA) or the Medical Research Council Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice in Clinical Trials (UK)) and/or on the World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Helsinki.

Any research depicting a study executed with human subjects must affirm through formal statement that the experiments had the consent (written or verbal, as appropriate) from the participants before the start of experiment.

Humans: When results of experiments on human subjects need to be reported, authors should prove the conformance of procedures used with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008 (5). If there are any equivocal views about the research’s conformance with the Helsinki Declaration, the author(s) should highlight the rationale behind the approach used and prove with evidences that the doubtful aspects of the study have been approved by the institutional review body.

Statement on Informed Consent

Consent: For research work dealing with human subjects, participants (or their parent or guardian in the case of children under 18) should be asked for their informed consent before their involvement in the study and this should be highlighted in the research work too.

Consent for publication of individual patient data: If any research includes material like personal details, images, or videos of the participants, then it should be ensured that the participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 18) have given written informed consent for their publication and this state of affairs should be addressed through a statement in the work. A consent form should be provided to the Editor(s) on request and will be kept confidential. If images are not clear and no personal detail of participants is there in the manuscript, such publication consents may not be required. Finally, the Editor(s) decides if the consent to publish is required or not.

Patients possess right for their privacy to be respected and their informed consent holds great importance. Sensitive information like patients’ names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be disclosed in written descriptions, photographs, or pedigrees unless scientific purposes require this information and the patient (or parent or guardian) allows for disclosing it through written consent. For having informed consent from the patient, he/she must be made aware of the manuscript to be published. Authors need to disclose the source of writing assistance and the funding source to back it up. Identifying details can be skipped if not necessary. To ensure highest level of anonymity, an informed consent is required.

 

Screening for Plagiarism

As a reputable international journal, Journal of Management Practices, Humanities and Social Sciences (JMPHSS) is committed to ensuring that all authors adhere to rigorous academic integrity standards, with a particular emphasis on combating plagiarism. JMPHSS vehemently opposes and discourages any form of plagiarism.

All submissions to JMPHSS will undergo plagiarism screening, and manuscripts found to contain plagiarized content will be rejected. JMPHSS uses Turnitin, and our own software to detect submissions that overlap with published and submitted manuscripts. Papers submitted to JMPHSS must maintain a similarity level of less than 20%. Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarized from a manuscript by other authors, whether published or unpublished, will be rejected and the authors may incur sanctions. Any published articles may need to be corrected or retracted.

Editors and reviewers will assess instances of minor plagiarism, such as the reuse of parts of an introduction from a previous paper or self-plagiarism, which involves recycling significant or nearly identical sections of one's own work without acknowledgment. In the event of post-publication discovery of plagiarism, retraction will be initiated, and a statement will be published in the subsequent issue.

Plagiarism encompasses presenting another person’s ideas or words as your own without proper permission, credit, or acknowledgment, or failing to cite sources correctly. It can range from direct copying to rephrasing another's work. We emphasize that plagiarism is a serious academic offense, even if unintentional, and is unacceptable in international academic publications. Proper citation is essential when using specific information from a source.

Identifying potential plagiarism involves several scenarios:

  1. Literal copying occurs when an author reproduces another's work word for word without permission or acknowledgment. This can be detected by comparing the original source with the suspected manuscript.
  2. Substantial copying involves reproducing a significant portion of another's work without permission or acknowledgment. Both the quality and quantity of the copied text are considered, with quality referring to its value in relation to the overall work.
  3. Paraphrasing occurs when an author takes ideas, words, or phrases from a source and presents them as their own without proper citation. This form of plagiarism can be challenging to detect.

At JMPHSS, we uphold academic integrity rigorously. The editorial team reserves the right to withdraw acceptance from any paper found to violate these standards. Additionally, we may remove or restrict access to files containing unlawful content or content that violates JMPHSS policies or the rights of third parties.

For more information, potential authors are encouraged to contact the editorial office at info@global-jws.com.

 

Archiving Policy

Notice that the generic copyright arrangement for the publication permits the self-archiving, under some terms, of various copies of the document. The specifics of various versions are given here;

Green Open Access: Archiving and Sharing Policy

You can always in any format share the original submission or accepted manuscript. You can publish a downloaded copy in any website, save a copy in a repository or network, share a copy via any social media forum, and distribute print or electronic copies in an original submission or an accepted manuscript.

The final published PDF (or original submission or accepted manuscript, if you choose) can be used as follows:

  • In connection with your own teaching, provided that any electronic dissemination keeps restricted access
  • Share with research collaborators on an individual basis provided the sharing is not for commercial purposes.
  • In the course of your research or dissertation including where a thesis is placed in some institutional electronic repository or archive
  • In the book that you have written or edited some time since the printing of the paper.

Provided that:

  • No fee shall be charge for access to the original submission and approved manuscript.
  • All reuse terms for website and repository users (where the original submission or accepted manuscript is posted) is for non-commercial purposes and are not derived.
  • The Final Published PDF cannot be posted without JMPHSS authorization on any unrestricted Web site or archive.
  • Every edition of your contribution can not be republished and translated into another journal without JMPHSS' prior permission.
  • The Journal is properly credited as the initial edition, with the full quotation material included any time the Contribution is further circulated or reused or quotations are reused.
  • Please make a note that your contribution is approved for journal publishing, after your contribution is approved for publication and before a DOI can be assigned.
  • Please include this in your postal contribution in a format equivalent to the following until complete quotation information for your Contribution is available.
     
 
 

Article Processing Charges

JMPHSS is a peer-reviewed journal with open access. Each peer-reviewed article is made freely available online immediately after publication and is published under a Creative Commons license. The journal's publication costs are covered by the collection of article processing charges, which are paid by the funder, institution, or author of each accepted manuscript. There are no fees associated with submitting a paper to the journal.

APC will only be paid after acceptance and have no guarantee or influence on the blind peer review process.

If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication by reviewers’ satisfaction and editor’s notification, then only a one-time Article Publication Charge (APC) is payable. This APC covers the cost of publication and ensures that your article will be freely available online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.

An Article Publication Charge (APC) of $100 USD (plus tax where applicable) will be payable on acceptance if the manuscript is accepted after peer review.

 

Sources of Revenue

All costs associated with publishing an Open Access article in the Journal of Management Practices, Humanities and Social Sciences (JMPHSS) are covered by APC. JMPHSS is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA), 

 

Authorship

Listing the names of the contributors on a paper is an effective method for acknowledging those who contributed greatly. It also guarantees that those accountable for the authenticity of content are made transparent.

All the following conditions shall be met by the authors mentioned in an article:

  • Make an important contribution to reporting, whether in designing, designing, executing, acquiring, analyzing and interpreting data, or in any of these fields.
  • The draft was written or amended extensively or objectively.
  • Settled on a paper that would be submitted to the journal.
  • Reviewed and agreed on all versions of the article before submission, during revision, the final version accepted for publication, and any significant changes introduced at the proofing stage.
  • Agree to take and bear responsibility for the contents of the article and to answer any concern raised about accuracy or integrity of the published work.

Corresponding author

The list of authors and the order of the authors listed must be agreed upon before submission, and the authors must also agree on who will be the corresponding author. It is the duty of the corresponding author to find agreement to ensure that all valid affiliations are included with all co-authors on all facets of this document, including the authoring order.

The corresponding author also shall be responsible for contacting co-authors with respect to all publishing requests and shall act, by presentation, peer review, production or after publication, on behalf of all co-authors on this paper. The corresponding author shall also sign on behalf of all the mentioned writers the publication agreement.

Changes in authorship

All writers, including those that are inserted or deleted, must consent to all revisions to the authorship prior to or after publication. It is the task of the corresponding author to receive confirmations from all co-authors and to give a clear description of why the changes were required to the editorial office. If a change of authority is required after the article has been published, it is updated by a note after publication. Any authoring modifications would meet our authorship requirements.

 

Manuscript Submission

Information for Contributors

All submissions should be made using a Word Processing file from which title page (including author name and affiliation and any acknowledgments or author notes) must be removed. After removing the author(s) details, go to the website and follow the directions. Each article usually has two part:

  1. Main Manuscript
  2. Title Page not for Review

The manuscript should include everything (i.e., Title, Abstract, Key Words, Introduction, Literature Review, Methods, Results, Findings References, Tables and Graphs) except for the authors, names, affiliation, addresses, acknowledgements, and any other information that may be used to identify the author(s). All acknowledgements of others’ help in research should be included in the ‘Title Page not for Review’ that is featured as part of web-based submission process.

Criteria for Publication

To be published in JMPHSS, a manuscript must make strong theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of engineering and technology. Authors interested in publishing with JMPHSS should strive to produce original, interesting, valuable, insightful, and important research. The acceptance of article for publication in JMPHSS highly depends upon the originality, value, importance, and significance of your research. Submissions that do not offer strong theoretical or empirical contribution will not be reviewed.

Each submitted manuscript would be assigned to action editor for evaluation. The action editor will decide whether to forward the manuscript to the reviewers. Typically, papers should be no longer than 40 double-spaced pages (using one-inch margins, left aligned, and Times New Roman 12-point font) including references, tables, figures, and appendixes.

Submission Requirements

Before submitting a manuscript to JMPHSS, the authors must make sure and confirm that

  • Their manuscript has not already been published elsewhere, is not under review for publication elsewhere and will not be submitted to any other journal during the review period at JMPHSS. Articles presented and published in the proceedings of any academic conferences or workshops will be considered for publication in JMPHSS.
  • Their manuscript has not previously been submitted to JMPHSS for review.
  • The working papers or prior drafts of submitted manuscript that are posted on a website (e.g. Personal, Departmental, University, Organizational) or a database will be taken down during the review process.

Formatting

All submissions are required to be formatted according to the guidelines available here. Manuscripts that do not commensurate with the formatting guidelines may be returned by the action editor to the authors for revision prior to submission to the full review process.