About the Journal

International Journal of Innovation in Management, Economics and Social Sciences
Journal Abbreviated Title: IJIMES

International Journal of Innovation in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (IJIMES) is scholarly open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers quarterly since the 2021 year dealing with methods and applications in applied science and engineering management. The journal covers researches and developments in the field of applied sciences and technologies as it relates to Management, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Engineering Economics, Decision Making, Valuation, Macro Systems Management, Systems Engineering, Economic and Social Systems fields.

The journal permits and encourages authors to deposit all versions of their papers (Preprint, Author's Accepted Manuscript, Published article (Version of Record)) in a personal website, institutional or subject repository.

No special permission is required to reuse all or part of an article published by IJIMES, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. Reuse of an article does not imply endorsement by the authors or IJIMES.

Authors retain the copyright of their papers without restrictions.

Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.

It is noteworthy that the editorial process of the journal uses the Ithenticate (http://www.ithenticate.com/). A text similarity score below 25% is acceptable by the journal.

The objective of the journal is to speed up the decision process without compromising on quality. The journal has a double-blind peer review and the peer reviewers may be members of the editorial board or external reviewers. The selection of peer reviewers depends on their availability and the subject of the manuscript. One step before the reviewing process, the journal editors use the PLAGIARISM software, Ithenticate (http://www.ithenticate.com/).

The review time in our journals for each round is about 2 to 3 weeks; the acceptance time is usually about 30 to 40 days and reviewing process is done by at least 2 reviewers of the journal.

The following illustrates the results of reviewing:

The manuscript will be accepted if all peer reviewers recommend the manuscript be accepted.
The manuscript will be rejected if more than half of peer reviewers recommend the manuscript be rejected.
In all other cases, the reviewers’ comments will be sent back to the submitting author to revise the manuscript.

It is worth mentioning that if an article needs significant revision, it is rejected, and we suggest the authors resubmit it after revision.

International Journal of Innovation in Management, Economics, and Social Sciences publishes fully open access journals, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication.

Articles in IJIMES are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.