About the Journal
Author fees
The MJRD does not charge any publication or editorial processing fee.Therefore, authors do not need to pay an article-processing charge for each article accepted for publication. It is Diamond Open Access.
Publisher Information
Wollo University, Ethiopia
Peer Review
Abyssinia Journal of Business and Social Science (AJBS) is committed to prompt evaluation and publication of fully accepted papers. To advocate high-quality publication, all submissions undergo a rigorous review process through a double-blind peer-review procedure. Reviewers of these journals play a vital role in maintaining the high standards of the AJBS and peer review procedure outlined below.
Initial review
All manuscript submissions are subjected to initial review to verify the completeness and adherence to the Guidelines for Authors. After the satisfactory report of the initial review, the manuscripts are transferred to the Editor in chief for the peer-review process. Manuscript rejection at the initial evaluation stage will normally be informed to authors within 1 week of receipt.
Editor-in-chief evaluation
The Editor in chief decides whether the manuscript warrants peer-review or if it should be rejected without review. A manuscript is rejected if it is insufficiently original, has serious flaws from a conceptual and/or methodological point of view, has poor grammar or usage of the English language, or is outside the aims and scope of the journal. The corresponding author receives information normally within 2 weeks of assignment to the Editor in chief if the manuscript is rejected at this stage.
Peer-review process
The Abyssinia Journal of Business and Social Science employs a double-blind peer-review, where both the reviewer and the author remain anonymous throughout the process. Reviewers are selected according to their expertise and our reviewer database is constantly being updated.
Reviewers are asked to evaluate a manuscript for:
1. Originality and significance of the contribution
2. Interest to investigators
3. International relevance
4. Coverage of appropriate existing as well as recent literature
5. Adequacy of methodology, analysis and interpretation
6. The clear, concise and jargon-free writing style
7. Organization of the manuscript
Reviewers' comments are considered as anonymous comments to the author and also provision is made available to reviewers for providing confidential comments to the editor. Reviewers are not expected to correct or copy edit manuscripts. Language corrections (if any) are carried out by authorized language experts. Generally, the manuscript review process takes four weeks. Another four weeks are required in case of contradictory review reports.
Publication Scheduling
The AJBS publishes two issues in one volume per year.
