About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Intellectual Journal of Academic Research is an academic, not for profit, blind peer-reviewed journal of Business, Arts and Social Sciences across disciplines. It aims to provide professors, scholars, Managers, Academicians, Scientists, Industrial professionals, Researchers, students and learned members of the community from all over the world an authentic open-access platform featuring scholarly research, reviews and perspectives on the state of current research on topics of interdisciplinary interest.

Mission
The journal will strive to create a platform where intellectual contribution will be shared from managements, language, arts and many more for the larger good of the people.

Vision
The vision of the journal is to cover the uncovered research.

Targets

  1. Publish the highest-quality research and writing across business disciplines, social sciences and technological advancements.
  2. Increase the visibility to impact of the journal for developing intellectual capital through continuous research sharing.

Key Objectives

  1. To publish high-quality research articles, reviews and perspectives per issue and move forward the multidisciplinary discourse on improving social conditions.
  2. To provide authors with detailed and constructive feedback within weeks of their submission of articles.
  3. To expand online readership across continents in the first year of publication.
  4. To keep a tally of multidisciplinary knowledge and theory building works from the submissions received on making the business discourse more sustainable, smart and practicable.
  5. To ensure the implementation of copyright and intellectual property laws.
  6. To explore tools and resources for visibility of the journal and maintenance of its academic standards for dissemination of research.

Publication Frequency

The IJAR annual journal is published both in print and electronic forms in the month of August of the year.

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.

The articles in IJAR are published with a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.

Copyright

Authors retain the copyright of their articles.

Article Processing Charges

The journal does not charge any APC for submissions.

Peer Review Process

The journal uses a rigorous peer-review process, led by a team of experts from Nepal and abroad, to ensure high quality and impact of published research and writing in pursuit of productive and practicable innovation. Articles are subject to initial editor screening followed by a blind peer review before publication. Submissions are invariably checked for plagiarism.

Research and review articles received from open call and individual invitation are peer-reviewed, double-blind, before publication. The production team sends original research and review articles to Section Editors for initial review of the work’s relevance to the journal. They submit draft decisions to the Editor-in-Chief for final decision about further review or rejection. The initial review process will be short, and not last longer two six weeks. Perspectives, including case studies and interviews, are reviewed by Section Editors and cleared with the Editor-in-Chief. These are not subject to double blind peer review. It consists of 6 levels of review including editorial and blind peer review as follow:

Level One: Checking Paper structure

Level Two: Checking & Detailed Checking Plagiarism (Less than 10%, No paragraph should have half to full paragraph plagiarism). Also check for Unique Title by searching the title in Google, Google scholar, & plagiarism checker result.

Level Three: Checking Grammar and Typographic mistakes using integrated Grammarly software

Level Four: Checking Review of Methods, Format, Title, Keywords, Tables & Figures, and Citations.

Level Five: Review of Analysis/Results/ Novelty, Further improvements, Journal to be considered, Area, Type, etc.

Level Six: After Journal formatting, DOI, Checking Page Numbers, Glancing on PDF before final publication by editor and Author proofreading.

Publisher

Intellectual Journal of Academic Research is published by the Myanglung Campus, Myanglung-10, Tamphula, Tehrathum, Nepal.