The Journal of Commerce

Focus and Scope

Journal of Commerce provides an outlook of research advancements and understandings in the field of business and its all aspects. It publishes articles, case studies and book reviews that consider issues regarding business and all sister fields of business. It includes papers those are interdisciplinary in nature but the major disciplines covered by JOC are:

Accounting and Finance
Management
Human Resource Management
Marketing
Business Economics
Entrepreneurship and small business management
Operation Management
Strategic management
Organizational Behavior
Research Methods
Contemporary business issues
Operation and Production Management
The prime goal of JOC is to disseminate the ideas and thoughts about business to academicians, researchers, practitioners and all those who can benefit from it. It aims to include paper from all over the world without any discrimination. Papers will be preferred which can be applied at any level and can benefit society.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

The Journal of Commerce

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

After plagiarism check with Turnitin and a preliminary editorial review, articles are sent to two/three referees for double blind review. Authors are informed about comments of the referees for revising the article accordingly, if required. The review process may take two to three months.

Publication Frequency

Bi-Annual Journal

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

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...

Editorial Board

Patron
Prof. Dr.Mubbsher Munawer Khan
Hailey College of Banking and Finance, University of the Punjab Lahore, Pakistan

Chief Editor
Prof. Dr. Zulfiqar Ahmad
Hailey College of Commerce, University of the Punjab Lahore, Pakistan

Editor
Dr. Ashfaq Ahmad
Hailey College of Commerce, University of the Punjab Lahore, Pakistan

Editorial Assistant
Mr. Zaheer Abbas
Hailey College of Commerce, University of the Punjab Lahore, Pakistan

Foreign/International Advisory Board

Dr. Fahri Karakaya
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, USA

Dr. Mohammed Abdur Razzaque
School of Marketing, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Dr. Koufopoulos Dimitros
Brunel Business Schools, Brunel University, UK

Dr. Fuad M. Kreishan
Al-Hussein bin Talal University, Jordan

Dr. Wan Khairuzzaman Bin Wan Ismail
University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr. Birendra Mishra
The A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, USA

Local/National Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Sayyid Salman Rizzvi

Prof. Dr. Khumail Abbas Rizvi
Lahore School of Economics, Lahore

Prof. Dr. Ather Azeem
University of Central Punjab, Lahore

Prof. Dr. Arshad Hassan
Capital University of Science & Technology, Islamabad

Prof. Dr. Khurram Shahzad
Riphah International University, Islamabad

Prof. Dr. Ghulam Ali Bhatti
University of Sargodha, Sargodha

Prof. Dr. Abdul Majid Makki
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur

Prof. Dr. Hafeez Ur Rehman
University of Management & Technology, Lahore

Dr. Fareeda Faisal
Arid Agricultural University, Rawalpindi

Dr. Zulfqar Ali Shah
International Islamic University, Islamabad

Review Policy

After plagiarism check with Turnitin and a preliminary editorial review, articles are sent to two/three referees for double blind review. Authors are informed about comments of the referees for revising the article accordingly, if required. The review process may take two to three months.

Review Guidelines

Reviewers should respond with in stipulated time frame, which is one week (7 days) for the journal.
Reviewers should try to fill in all the parts of reviewers report so that a fair judgment regarding the quality of the paper can be made
As review is essential step towards publication process, every reviewer is therefore supposed to be fair in reviewing.
Any reviewer who feels him/herself as unqualified, or not having judgment idea or deficit of time should inform editor promptly, so that the paper can be forwarded elsewhere.
The review should be objective one, and personal feelings, judgments or biasness should not affect the review and its outcomes.
A reviewer should not review a paper that discusses any point that might have conflict of opinion with reviewer.
No manuscript should be reviewed which is authored, co-authored or authored by some known person/s, in order to avoid biasness.
A manuscript sent for review is confidential document, so it should be treated fairly and secretary and should not be shown somewhere else.
Reviewers should comment on each point clearly so that the judgment regarding acceptance/rejection or changes may be made on the basis of review
If reviewer notices any similarity with any other paper published in any other journal, containing same contents and that issued should be addressed to editor.