About the Journal

Focus and Scope

It gives me great pleasure and honor to welcome you to the Sarhad Journal of Management Sciences (SJMS). It is my expectation this journal will give our field an academic voice and a venue for research that will enhance our critical and intellectual understanding of business education-related issues. Ultimately, as any academic endeavor must begin and end with the interests of enriching the existing knowledge in mind, I believe Sarhad Journal of Management Sciences (SJMS) will play its role appropriately. The Journal is, therefore, the ideal venue for the discussion of quality research in our field. In this way, we hope we will be able to fill an important academic niche. As such we welcome and encourage submission of quality original academic research focused on a wide range of business related issues. We are honored to share the work of so many committed and thoughtful people. We appreciate your support and are so happy to have you as a contributor and reader of our journal. The journal editorial team is committed to maintain a high international and scientific standard by publishing original articles of research in order to establish the journal as one of the informative journals in business education. The journal editorial board appeals to all researchers globally to contribute genuinely to advance the task of our journal in order to serve the academic community. We are looking forward to receiving your submission of articles, reports and notes.

The journal accepts papers in the field of management (Human Resource Management, Finance, and Marketing), business education, economics, and behavioural sciences.

 

Sarhad Journal of Management Sciences' Policy Statements

1.     Open Access & Licensing Policy

Open Access Statement: Sarhad Journal of Management Sciences (SJMS), published by Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology Peshawar, Pakistan, is a fully open-access journal published biannually (June Issue and December Issue). All research articles submitted to journals, when pass through the review process and are accepted for publication in SJMS are made available online to readers worldwide free of charge, without any subscription, registration, or paywall barriers.

Licensing Terms: All content published in SJMS is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Under this license, authors and readers are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), provided appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and source publication.

2.     Copyright, Archiving, & Repository Policy

Copyright Ownership: Authors publishing with SJMS retain full, unrestricted copyright and publishing rights to their work. Authors grant SJMS a non-exclusive license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.

Self-Archiving & Repository Policy: SJMS permits and encourages authors to deposit all versions of their article (Pre-print, Author Accepted Manuscript, and Final Published PDF/Version of Record) in institutional, national, or central repositories (such as ResearchGate, MPRA, or institutional digital archives) immediately upon publication.

Digital Preservation: To guarantee long-term availability and permanent preservation of published scholarly research, all articles and metadata published in SJMS are permanently archived in the Sarhad University Institutional Repository.

3.     Peer Review & Publication Ethics Policy

Peer Review Process: The Journal is committed to ensure academic rigour and objective evaluation through its strictly followed double-blind peer review system. The Journal follow the following steps:

  1. Initial Desk Review: Submitted manuscripts undergo an initial evaluation by the Editorial Board for scope, structure, and adherence to author guidelines.
  2. Plagiarism Screening: All submissions are screened using Turnitin prior to reviewer assignment. Submissions that have overall similarity index less than 19%, with no single source exceeding 5% become eligible for the next step.
  3. External Blind Review: Articles passing initial screening are assigned to at least two independent subject matter experts. Author identities are concealed from reviewers, and reviewer identities are concealed from authors.
  4. Editorial Decision: Based on reviewer reports, the Editor-in-Chief renders a decision: Accept, Minor Revision, Major Revision, or Reject.

Publication Ethics & Misconduct: Being a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), SJMS adheres to its established principles and standards. Any instances of research misconduct—including plagiarism, data fabrication, falsification, or redundant/duplicate publication—will result in immediate rejection during review or formal retraction post-publication.

4.     Article Processing Charges (APCs) & Financial Transparency

Author Fees: Sarhad Journal of Management Sciences (SJMS) does not charge any Article Processing Charges (APCs), submission fees, editorial processing fees, or publication fees. Publishing in SJMS is entirely free of cost for authors.