Focus and Scope

Journal of Decision Science is a multidisciplinary, refereed journal to support and encourage quality research among professionals and young researchers through publishing novel and innovative works. Journal appreciates all types of manuscripts, those who apply statistics and mapping tools and techniques to advance decision science. Journal attempts to bring all disciplines, including but not limited to, environmental, social, psychological, economic, health, and business sciences together through quantitative, qualitative, conceptual, theoretical, methodological, and empirical studies. Journal promotes solution oriented investigations in all the disciplines where robust statistical techniques and appropriate research methods have been applied for informed decision-making and policy creation. Additionally, researchers from academic and non-academic fields such as consultancies, industries, and nonprofit organizations are equally encouraged for submitting their original and innovative works.

Journal of Decision Science is aimed to publish original and theoretical research reports, commentaries, essays, short communications, research articles, reviews, policy documents and literature reviews. All the submissions are subject to an editorial review followed by a rigorous blind peer-review process. 

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Disease Notes

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Review Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

The Journal of Decision Science is using online article submission, review and tracking system for quality and quick review processing. Journal provides double blind peer review process of 04-06 weeks followed by the publication of research article.

Delayed Open Access

The contents of this journal will be available in an open access format 24 month(s) after an issue is published.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Publication Ethics

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND PUBLICATION MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

It is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behaviour for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer and the publisher.

 

Publication decisions

The editor of the Journal of Decision Science will be responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal will be published. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding a, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

 

Fair play

The editor will evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

 

Confidentiality

The editor and the editorial staff of the Journal of Decision Science will not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

 

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript will not be used in an editorial board or editor’s own research without the written consent of the author.

 

Duties of Reviewers

Peer-review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers’ expert in the field of publication.

 

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

 

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible will notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

 

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review will be treated as confidential documents. They will not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

 

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews will be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author will not be involved in the review. Referees will express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

 

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers will identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported will be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer will also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

 

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review will be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers will not consider manuscripts in which they have some conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

 

AUTHOR’S LIABILITIES

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

 

Data Access and Retention

Authors are asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data (consistent with the ALPSP-STM Statement on Data and Databases), if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

 

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

 

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not, in general, publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in other than the Journal of Decision Science. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

 

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgement of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

 

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Hazards and Human or Animal Subjects.

If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript.

 

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

 

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 The guidelines are based on COPE's Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for journals.

Editorial Review Board Invitation

The editorial team of the Journal of Decision Science invites applications for editorial review board members. Working with members of the editorial advisory board, members of the editorial review board will review submissions to the journal and ensure that the journal responds timely to submissions.
 
The editorial review board will consist of members willing to commit to reviewing articles three to four times each year for accuracy, clarity, and research rigor; identifying the strengths and weaknesses of submissions; providing detailed comments on reviewed submissions providing recommendations for accepting or rejecting manuscripts for publication.
 
Being a member of the editorial review board means being professionally associated with the Journal of Decision Science. The names of members will be included in each issue, listed on the journal’s web page.
 
The composition of the editorial review board will include a wide variety of scholars consisting of early career through senior academics. Review board members possess graduate degrees and adequate expertise to provide authoritative assessments.