- Journal of Management and Sustainable Development Studies is a scholarly online, open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and fully refereed journal based on theories, models, and systems related to management and sustainable development.
- The publication of this journal began in 2021 and it is published quarterly.
- It is a scientific journal that aims to contribute to the constant scientific research and training, to promote research in the field of Management and Sustainable Development.
- The submitted papers will be published after a special review as well as the approval of the editorial board.
- The journal was established by the Management Department of Islamic Azad University, Zahedan Branch.
- The honorable professors and researchers are highly appreciated if they visit this site, register, submit and set up their papers based on the author's guidelines.
- This journal is subject to the rules of the Publishing Ethics Committee (COPE) and complies with the ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws.
- Journal of "Management and Sustainable Development Studies" with the aim of creating a suitable platform for publishing the best scientific works of professors and other researchers on the topics of "Sustainable Management and Development" in accordance with the publication license No. 53539 / p / 99 dated 13 January 2021 Determining the validity of publications in the field of humanities and arts of the Islamic Azad University and also the publishing license of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance with registration number 91330 is published quarterly by the Islamic Azad University of Zahedan.
- This journal was indexed in the ICI Journals Master List database for 2021 and obtained the Copernicus index (Copernicus value index) of 76.28.
- This journal received a score of 69B in the evaluation of Islamic Azad University in September 2022.
Peer-Review Policy
All research papers submitted to MSDS are subjected to rigorous blind peer-review by experts in the management and sustainable development field for better enhancement of research. The average number of days between article submission & publication is about 60 days. See more information on this page.
Copyright Policy
This is an Open Access journal distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, adaptation, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. See more information on this page.
Open Access Statement
This is an open access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed 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. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Self-archiving policies
Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in Journal of Management and Sustainable Development Studies as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website.
Plagiarism Policy
The policy of the Quarterly Journal of Management and Sustainable Development Studies is "fighting academic plagiarism". For this purpose, matching is done through the Samim Noor system. See more information on this page.
Article Processing Charges (APCs)
According to the executive instructions for the financial support of scientific publications of Islamic Azad University No. 10/62815 dated 10/4/2018, it was decided that in case of initial approval by the editor; 1,500,000 rials for each article sent for refereeing, and after final approval, another 3,500,000 rials for the publication of the article should be received from the respected authors. (It should be noted that if the article is declared rejected by the respected referees, the initial amount of 1,500,000 rials cannot be returned to the author).
- Note: Authors outside Iran will not be charged any fee for refereeing and publishing the article.
- Please transfer the costs of refereeing and publication of articles to the account number 0115860821001 of non-tuition income of Islamic Azad University, Zahedan branch, at Saderat Bank.
SHABA Number: IR870190000000115860821001
Information related to the Quarterly Journal of Management and Sustainable Development Studies (MSDS)
- Publisher: Islamic Azad University of Zahedan
- Online ISSN: 2783-4395
- Format: Online
- Frequency: Quarterly
- Coverage: Management and Sustainable Development
- Type of Journal: Academic / Specialized
- Country: Iran
- Language: Persian; Including Extended English Abstracts, Bibliographies, and References
- Indexed & Abstracted: Yes
- Types of articles: Analytical Article; Review Article; Original Article
- Editorial Board: This journal has editorial board
- Peer-Review Policy: Double Blind Peer Review; at least three reviewers (Read Peer-Review Policy here and Read the guide for authors here)
- Initial review time: maximum 1 week
- Review Time: three to six months approximately (Read peer review process here)
- Article Processing Charges (APCs): There is an arbitration and publishing fee (Read more information here)
- Advance Access: Articles in Press are available
- Contact E-mail: msds@iauzah.ac.ir and msds.iauzah@gmail.com
- Type of License: CC- BY (Read the journal access license here)
- Type of Access: Open Access (OA) (Read the journal open access statement here)
- Strategy to deal with Plagiarism: Samimnoor Similarity System (Read the strategy of the journal here)
- Publication Ethics: Publication Based On the International Ethics Committee's Publication (COPE) (Read publication ethics here)
- Article Identifier: DOI
- Revenue sources: receiving fees from authors of articles as well as organizational support by Islamic Azad University, Zahedan branch.
- Advertising: No advertising that has profit interests will be displayed on the magazine's website or the text of the published articles.
- Self-archiving policies for authors: Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites (read journal policy here).
- Archiving by Journal: Academia & Index Copernicus
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