Yashomanthan adheres to a rigorous peer review policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. The manuscripts go through the following process after being submitted :
- Submission of the manuscript by the author.
- Next, all received manuscripts undergo Desk Review by the Editorial Team to ascertain their suitability for the journal.
- Papers that do not clear the desk review are rejected, the author is sent an email using the Online Journal Management System, and the rejected papers are archived.
- Papers that clear the initial triage are then checked for plagiarism with the help of available software.
- Papers with a high plagiarism/similarity index are rejected at this stage.
- Papers that clear the desk review and have original content are sent to the reviewers for review, as the unfit and irrelevant manuscripts are filtered out of the review process by the Editorial Team.
The manuscripts are reviewed based on the following criteria:
- The overall contribution of the paper to the field of Management.
- Significance and relevance of the topic to the scope of Yashomanthan.
- Originality of the content.
- Adequacy of the Literature Review.
- Conceptual rigor.
- Logical and technical soundness
- Studies using latest data.
- Organization of the content.
- Writing quality.
- Managerial/Theoretical/Financial/Policy Implications of the research.
- Limitations of the Study and Scope for Further Research.
- References
On receipt of feedback from the reviewers, the Editors examine the feedback and further decide to accept, reject, or revise the paper.
- In the next stage, the manuscripts shortlisted after peer – review are sent the Review and Editorial Revisions. Each paper undergoes 2-3 rounds of revision before final acceptance.
- The Managing Editor/Reviewers thoroughly check the updated submissions to assess whether the necessary suggestions have been incorporated.
- After this stage, the updated manuscripts are again checked for plagiarism using the available software.
- Next, the final revised manuscripts are assigned to Editors for pre-editing ad copy editing to make the necessary editorial amendments in the final manuscript to suit the journal’s quality standards.
