About the journal
The Iraqi Journal for Administrative Sciences is listed among the scientific journals approved for scientific promotion, according to the official book issued by the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research/Department of Research and Development, according to the official book No. BT/71 on 11/1/2005.
Deposit number in the Iraq National Library and Archives: Baghdad 725 of 2001 AD
The Iraqi Journal for Administrative Sciences, with the International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN P.1818-1074; ISSN E.2958-6941), is a peer-reviewed international scientific journal published quarterly by the College of Administration and Economics at the University of Karbala/Iraq. It focuses on administrative, accounting, statistical, and economic studies. The journal aims to stimulate scientific research and be included in reputable international databases. It provides researchers with a significant opportunity to evaluate their work scientifically through stringent peer-review processes. The journal encourages scholarly communication, presenting research to achieve scientific dialogue, and utilizing research results in the service of scientific inquiry.
The official website of the Iraqi Journal of Administrative Sciences:
http://journals.uokerbala.edu.iq/index.php/ijas/index
Peer Review Process
The Iraqi Journal of Administrative Sciences publishes original research that has not been published before.
Our criteria for publication are that the article must make a theoretical or practical contribution to the relevant field. The article should provide useful guidelines for some key interest groups such as government, policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, etc.
General criteria are also used such as novelty of the topic, academic suitability, accuracy of methodology, grammar, focus on the problem of the study, and providing the best solutions to address the problems, all of which are considered indicators of the quality of the article. These criteria are used to judge an article's suitability for publication.
The scientific review and evaluation process is followed by two or three evaluators after concealing the name of the researcher and his place of work. Once the research is received, it is sent to both the president and the managing editor to decide the suitability of the research and the extent to which it conforms to the terms of the journal, and the percentage of introspection should be low, less than 20%. After that, it is sent to the appropriate reviewers who review the article and evaluate its suitability for publication in our journal. The scientific evaluator fills out a special form about the article, which is then sent to the editorial director. The final decision is then taken by the editorial board, with the researcher’s commitment to implementing all amendments requested by the scientific evaluators. Submitting arguments if you are not convinced by the evaluators’ response, and they are reviewed by the president and managing editor, and scientific reviewer of the journal.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Plagiarism Policy
We use the Turnitin software (www.turnitin.com) for checking the similarity in the work submitted. In any submitted work, similarity up to less than 20% is allowed. It is the responsibility of the author to make sure that the work submitted belongs to the author and is not copied from any other source. Furthermore, it is the responsibility of the author to make sure that the similarity level should not exceed the mentioned limit.
Ethics Policy
We follow ethical norms accepted by the scientific community in general. We strive to prevent any infringements of the norms. The publication ethics statement is based on guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and includes relevant responsibilities for editors, reviewers, and authors.
Researcher's responsibility:
- Adherence to ethical standards and principles in the process of preparing the article and publishing it.
- A manuscript must be submitted that contains correct information and is attributed to solid references. A list of references must be provided at the end of the article through which the article that was used in the manuscript can be accessed, and the articles used must be within the scope of the manuscript.
- Commitment to writing the manuscript according to the model of the Iraqi Journal for Administrative Sciences.
- Adherence to correct citation rules and correct documentation.
- Do not submit an article that has been previously published in other journals, even if it was published in another language.
- Do not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. This is contrary to the ethics of international publishing.
- The researcher is allowed to publish his research in other journals after receiving the official rejection from the journal. Or submit an official request to the editor-in-chief to withdraw the manuscript submitted to the journal and obtain approval to withdraw the manuscript.
- Obtaining the approval of all co-authors who contributed significantly to the preparation of the manuscript before submitting it for publication in the Iraqi Journal for Administrative Sciences. (The responding author who will communicate directly with the journal must be determined, and this must be recorded inside the manuscript, along with his email and full address to communicate with him).
- The names of the co-authors in the manuscript must be mentioned correctly and in a correct sequence. It is not permitted to change any name, add another name, or change the sequence of researchers after submitting the manuscript to the journal.
- At the end of the manuscript, you can thank the people or organizations that helped you complete the manuscript in terms of providing information or agreeing to be a sample for your study.
- Disclosure to the magazine in the event of a conflict of interest.
- The research meets ethical standards and takes into account the rights of humans and animals if they are included as a sample in its research.
- Stay away from plagiarism and forgery.
- If the researcher discovers an error in his research, he must alert the journal before publishing the manuscript.
- The researcher must adhere to the referees’ suggestions and amendments, and if he does not wish to make some amendments, he must provide a clear justification for that, and the journal takes the final decision after reviewing the justifications and may approve or reject them if they are not convincing.
Responsibility of the scientific reviewer of the manuscript:
- Inform the editorial director if you are unable to review the manuscript.
- Adherence to ethical standards in the arbitration process.
- Do not use the information in the manuscript that has been evaluated for personal interest or send the manuscript or part of it to a third party.
- The arbitrator does not accept to evaluate the step that involves a conflict of interest as a result of a competitive relationship with the author.
- Ensure that the manuscript under evaluation is free of plagiarism and plagiarism, and inform the editor-in-chief of any similarity with the manuscript under evaluation and other articles published in the same or another language if he has access to them.
- Commitment to confidentiality in evaluating the manuscript and not to disclose it or discuss its topics with others except for the chief and editor-in-chief.
- Adopting the principle of integrity in the manuscript evaluation process.
- Objectivity in the manuscript evaluation process.
- Commitment to the time period for evaluating the manuscript.
- No discrimination against authors on the basis of gender, origin, religious belief, citizenship, or political affiliation of the author.
- Handle authors’ complaints and retain any documents related to the complaints.
Responsibility of the managing editor:
- The editor-in-chief or managing editor of the magazine, in cooperation with the editorial board, is responsible for selecting reviewers whose specialties are appropriate for the manuscript sent to them for evaluation.
- The decision to publish or not to publish depends on the referees’ reports, their scientific observations, the extent of their originality, and their relevance to the journal’s specialty.
- Ensure that the confidentiality of the arbitration process and information received from the arbitrators is maintained.
- Ensure that research is reviewed confidentially.
Open Access Statement
this journal operated by "The College of Administration and Economics/University of Kerbala" are open access journal which means that all contents are freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. The journals follows the Creative Common Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 Licence (CC BY) which means we allow our readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is also in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
