For your convenience, we are posting this section on FAQs. All these details are already mentioned in the Guidelines for Authors. However, we are posting some important points here for your reference. All authors/readers are requested to read all the below points carefully :
• Where is Indian Journal of Marketing Indexed? Is it a Scopus Indexed Journal?Indian Journal of Marketing is a monthly journal published from New Delhi, India. It is indexed in Elsevier's Scopus since 2013. It is also indexed in the UGC - CARE List of Journals (Group II) and the ABDC Journal Quality Rating List (Rating : C). The ISSN Number is : 0973 - 8703. IJM is also indexed in other International and National databases. To see the complete details, please click the Indexing/Abstracting tab given on the website.
• What Topics are covered in Indian Journal of Marketing?All topics related to Marketing Research/Statistics, Advertising, Sales Management, Consumer Behavior, Communication, Direct Marketing, Retailing, E-Commerce, Global Business, Marketing Theory and Applications, etc are covered in Indian Journal of Marketing. Authors should try and send papers on new topics that have not been previously covered in Indian Journal of Marketing and topics that are not well-researched with reference to India so as to widen the scope and reach of the journal. Please note that topics related to Management will be covered in our journal : Prabandhan : Indian Journal of Management and not in Indian Journal of Marketing.
•Do we consider Case studies/Review Papers/Book Reviews/Research Notes?Yes, we consider all the above - mentioned types of papers.
• How to Submit a paper for review in Indian Journal of Marketing ?WE WILL NOT ACCEPT HARD COPIES OF THE PAPERS. Please use our portal for submitting the manuscripts online. Please login with your account details and click on New Submission.
• How much time does it take review and what are the details of manuscript specification and style guide? Please explain your review process briefly.Due to a huge load of submissions, the review process takes between 6 - 12 months. We follow the APA Style Guide (Style Guide of the American Psychological Association). Authors please note that we cannot review papers within 2 days, 5 days, 7 days, or 10 days. Authors looking to publish their manuscripts within 5-15 days of submission MAY PLEASE NOT consider Indian Journal of Marketing for their research interests.
After a manuscript is submitted for review, it goes through Desk Review to ascertain its suitability as per the Guidelines for Authors, the journal's aims and scope, as well as to check whether it meets the minimum quality parameters as per the standards of the journal. Papers clearing this stage move ahead in the Review process. The papers are then scanned for originality. Papers with a high similarity index are rejected at this stage. Next, the papers are checked whether they are of above average quality and is the content and writing good enough to make them worthy of reviewing. The papers are then assigned to Reviewers for double blind peer review. The journal will look out for papers that have novelty of research with respect to the area of the research and topics already covered in Indian Journal of Marketing.
Yes, we are a Print Journal. In addition, our content is available in the online format on our website as well as on the i-scholar (http://www.i-scholar.in/) platform. All authors will receive three copies of the issue in which their paper is published. Yes, we provide the print copies to all authors of a paper that is published in Indian Journal of Marketing and not only to the Corresponding Author.
All other details regarding manuscript preparation and style guide are mentioned in the Guidelines for Authors. Please read the FAQs and Guidelines for Authors carefully before making a submission. If you have read and understood the FAQs and the Guidelines for Authors and agree with the Terms and Conditions, please login with your account on the website and click on New Submission to submit your manuscript.
Thanks,
The Editorial Team
Indian Journal of Marketing
