Iraqi Journal for Administrative Sciences

The Iraqi Journal for Administrative Sciences is listed among the 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 and provide practical guidelines for 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 study\'s problem, and providing the best solutions to address the problems. These criteria are used to judge an article\'s suitability for publication.

Two or three evaluators follow the scientific review and evaluation process after concealing the researcher\'s name and 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 study 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 particular form about the article, which is then sent to the editorial director. The editorial board then makes the final decision, with the researcher’s commitment to implementing all amendments requested by the scientific evaluators. Submitting arguments if the evaluators’ response does not convince you and the journal\'s president, managing editor, and scientific reviewer review them.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global knowledge exchange.

Plagiarism Policy

We use Turnitin software (www.turnitin.com) to check the similarity in the work submitted. Similarity up to less than 20% is allowed in any submitted work. The author is responsible for ensuring that the work submitted belongs to the author and is not copied from any other source. Furthermore, the author must ensure that the similarity level does not exceed the mentioned limit.

Ethics Policy

We follow ethical standards generally accepted by the scientific community. We strive to prevent any violations of the rules. The Statement of Publication Ethics is based on the guidelines and standards set by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and includes the relevant responsibilities of editors, reviewers, and authors. For more information, all terms of publication ethics can be found on the COPE website as follows https://publicationethics.org/core-practices

Researcher\'s responsibility:

1. Adherence to ethical standards and principles is needed in preparing and publishing the article.
2. A manuscript containing correct information must be submitted and attributed to solid references. A list of references must be provided at the end of the article through which the article used in the manuscript can be accessed, and the articles used must be within the scope of the manuscript.
3. Commitment to writing the manuscript according to the Iraqi Journal for Administrative Sciences model.
4. Adherence to correct citation rules and correct documentation.
5. Do not submit an article previously published in other journals, even if it was published in another language.
6. Do not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously. This is contrary to the ethics of international publishing.
7. After receiving the journal\'s official rejection, the researcher can publish his research in other journals 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.
8. 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 speak with him).
9. The authors\' names participating in the research must be mentioned correctly and in the correct sequence. After submitting the research to the journal, it is not permitted to change any name, add another name, or change the sequence of researchers. These authors must have contributed to the completion of the research.
10. At the end of the manuscript, you can thank the people or organizations that helped you complete the manuscript by providing information or agreeing to be a sample for your study.
11. Disclosure to the magazine in the event of a conflict of interest.
12. The research meets ethical standards and considers the rights of humans and animals if they are included as a sample in its study.
13. Stay away from plagiarism and forgery.
14. If the researcher discovers an error in his research, he must alert the journal before publishing the manuscript.
15. The researcher must adhere to the referees’ suggestions and amendments. If he does not wish to make some amendments, he must provide a clear justification for that. After reviewing the justifications, the journal makes the final decision and may approve or reject them if they are not convincing.
16. The researcher must not tamper with or add citations (quotations) from previous research he owns to the research he wants to publish. If he wants to add a citation from research that he owns, it must not exceed 3 of the sources included in the study that he wants to publish in our journal, and these sources must be related to the topic of the current research that he wants to publish in our journal.

Responsibility of the scientific reviewer of the manuscript:

1. Inform the editorial director if you are unable to review the manuscript.
2. Adherence to ethical standards in the arbitration process.
3. Please do not use the information in the manuscript evaluated for personal interest or send the manuscript or part of it to a third party.
4. The arbitrator does not accept to evaluate the step involving a conflict of interest due to a competitive relationship with the author.
5. Ensure that the manuscript under evaluation is free of plagiarism, and inform the editor-in-chief of any similarity with the manuscript under assessment and other articles published in the same or another language if he has access to them.
6. 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.
7. Adopting the principle of integrity in the manuscript evaluation process.
8. Objectivity in the manuscript evaluation process.
9. Commitment to the period for evaluating the manuscript.
10. At the end of the research, you can thank the people or organizations that helped you complete the research by providing information or agreeing to be a sample for your study. You must include the number and date of the official letter issued by the organization that decided to conduct your study. The number and date of the official letter should be included in the research sample, and the journal should be provided with a copy of the letter of approval.
11. Handle authors’ complaints and retain any documents related to the complaints.

Responsibility of the managing editor:

1. In cooperation with the editorial board, the editor-in-chief or managing editor of the magazine is responsible for selecting reviewers whose specialties are appropriate for the manuscript sent to them for evaluation.
2. 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.
3. Ensure that the confidentiality of the arbitration process and information received from the arbitrators is maintained.
4. Ensure that research is reviewed confidentially.

Open Access Statement

this journal, operated by \"The College of Administration and Economics/University of Kerbala,\" is an open-access journal, which means that all contents are freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. The journals follow 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. The BOAI also defines this as open access.