Journal of Management Theory and Practices Research (JMTPR) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal published by the International Academic Studies Association. The journal focuses on management, organization, and related areas within the social sciences and aims to contribute to scholarly knowledge through original theoretical, empirical, and review articles.

JMTPR publishes academic manuscripts written in Turkish or English. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not have been previously published elsewhere and must not be under evaluation by another journal at the time of submission.

Papers that have previously been presented only as abstracts at scientific meetings may be submitted to JMTPR, provided that they are converted into full article format and that the previous presentation is clearly indicated in the manuscript. As a general publication principle, an author may not have more than one article published within the same volume of JMTPR.

Manuscript Evaluation Process

All manuscripts submitted to JMTPR first undergo an initial editorial screening. At this stage, submissions are evaluated in terms of technical, formal, ethical, and scope-related suitability.

Manuscripts found suitable for further evaluation are sent to at least two independent reviewers through a double-blind peer review process. In this process, the identities of authors and reviewers are kept confidential.

The inclusion of a manuscript in the evaluation process does not guarantee publication. Even if the peer review process results in positive evaluations, the final decision regarding acceptance, rejection, revision, and issue placement rests with the Editorial Board.

Originality and Similarity Screening

Authors are required to submit only original and scholarly work. Manuscripts must comply with academic writing standards and must not contain plagiarism, duplication, data fabrication, data falsification, salami publication, ghost authorship, gift authorship, denied authorship, copyright infringement, or undisclosed conflicts of interest.

Authors are required to conduct plagiarism/similarity screening using tools such as Turnitin or iThenticate before submission and upload the similarity report together with the manuscript. Submissions with a similarity rate exceeding 20% may be rejected. The Editorial Board may also consider the nature of the similarity, including references, direct quotations, standard methodological expressions, and properly cited sources, when making its final assessment.

Ethics Committee Approval

For research requiring ethics committee approval, authors must upload an official Ethics Committee Approval document during submission. This requirement applies to studies involving surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations, experiments, human participants, animals, clinical research, retrospective studies involving personal data, and other research types requiring ethical approval.

If the study does not require ethics committee approval, authors must submit a signed declaration stating this and clearly indicate the exemption within the manuscript.

Open Access and Licensing Policy

JMTPR is an open-access journal. All articles published in the journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

This license permits users to share, copy, redistribute, and adapt the published material, provided that appropriate credit is given, the material is not used for commercial purposes, and any derivative works are distributed under the same license.

Authors retain the copyright of their work but grant JMTPR the right of first publication. Authors may share or archive their published articles on institutional repositories, personal websites, academic networks, or other platforms, provided that proper citation of the first publication in JMTPR is given.

Publication Fees

JMTPR does not charge any submission, review, or publication fees. All stages of the submission, evaluation, and publication process are conducted free of charge for authors.

Withdrawal Policy

Manuscripts may be withdrawn upon the written request of the author before the peer review process has commenced. In such cases, the submission will be removed from the evaluation process.

As a general rule, manuscripts for which the peer review process has started or has been completed should not be withdrawn in order to protect reviewer effort and editorial integrity. However, in exceptional cases involving ethical concerns, major data errors, misrepresentation, copyright problems, or circumstances that fundamentally compromise the scientific reliability of the study, the author(s) must notify the editorial office in writing with a clear justification.

The Editorial Board evaluates withdrawal requests on a case-by-case basis. If the request is deemed justified, the manuscript may be withdrawn from the evaluation process. If the manuscript has already been published and serious ethical or scientific problems are identified, the journal may initiate correction, withdrawal, or retraction procedures in accordance with its publication ethics principles.

By submitting a manuscript to JMTPR, authors are deemed to have accepted the journal’s publication policy, withdrawal policy, author guidelines, and publication ethics principles.