Peer Review Process

The Jinnah Business Review is committed to fair and professional dealing in publication of manuscripts.

A. Peer-review Process
The submitted articles are undergone through double-anonymous peer review; the first evaluation is carried out by the JBR working committee consisting of members from each relevant discipline. Upon successful initial screening, the paper will be sent to two external reviewers to assess suitability for publication. The Editor-in-Chief of the journal will make the final decision to accept/ reject the manuscript, which will be based on fairness and merit.

B. Journal Timeline

No.	Steps	Estimated Time
i.	Submission of Manuscript	September & March
ii.	Desk Review and Similarity check Papers are rejected in case of not meeting given guidelines. The similarity index will be cheeked twice, a) during desk review at the time of submission, b) before the final publication. The plagiarism must be below 20% including authors’ own work, contrary to this manuscript will be rejected.	1week
iii.	Blind Peer review (2     external reviewers)	6 weeks
iv.	Communication  Send review reports to authors to update their     manuscripts	1 week
v.	Submission of revised manuscript Review can be: a) Minor revisions b) Major revisions	a) 2 weeks b) 3 weeks
vi.	Processing of the Revised Submission Cross-check by the team and sent to review whether the comments have been incorporated or not	4 weeks
vii.	Decision on the Manuscript	1 week
viii.	Timelines of publication of issues	Jan and July
viii.	Article-Processing/Publication Fee The Jinnah Business Review does not charge any kind of submission and processing fee for publications