About Journal

Infopreneurship Journal (IJ), (ISSN 2345-265X), is an international, peer-reviewed, bi-annual, open-access journal which focuses on the changing contours of information entrepreneurship, management & business. It publishes original papers of high quality, documenting fresh grounds being explored, new methodologies being employed, conceptual discoveries being made, or innovative experiments being attempted with a view to expanding the frontiers of our knowledge and insight.

This journal is privately published online by Mahmood Khosrowjerdi in Iran.

Aims and Scope

Infopreneurship Journal (IJ) is a leading scholarly journal in the conjunction of Information in Business and Entrepreneurship. The journal’s mission is to publish original papers which contribute to the advancement of these fields.

IJ publishes conceptual and empirical articles of interest to scholars, consultants, and public policy makers. Articles' topics include, but certainly are not limited to:

Totally, IJ publishes conceptual and empirical articles of interest to scholars, consultants, and public policy makers in following topics (but certainly are not limited to):

  • Information: Theory, Methods, Use, Processes, Strategies and Practices

  • Information behavior

  • Information evaluation: Biblimetrics, Scientometrics, Webometrics, etc.

  • Information & Knowledge Management: Data, Records & Archives Creation, Use, Management, and Preservation

  • Information Technology in Business and Entrepreneurship

  • Information Entrepreneurship and Business

Peer Review Policy

All submitted manuscripts to Infopreneurship Journal (IJ) are subject to double-blind peer review by the editorial/advisory board members. To save time for authors and reviewers, only those papers that seem most likely to meet our aim and policy are sent for double-blind review. Those papers judged by the editors to be of insufficient general interest or otherwise inappropriate are rejected promptly without external review (although these decisions may be based on informal advice from specialists in the field).

Manuscripts judged to be of potential interest to our readership are sent for peer review, typically to two reviewers, but sometimes more if special advice is needed (for example on statistics or a particular technique).

The editor-in-chief then makes a decision based on the reviewers’ advice, from among several possibilities:

  • Accept, without editorial revisions

  • Accept, with editorial revisions

  • Invite the authors to fundamental revisions and re-submission

  • Reject outright, typically on grounds of specialist interest, lack of novelty, insufficient conceptual advance or major technical and/or interpretational problems

Reviewers are welcome to recommend a particular course of action, but they should bear in mind that the other reviewers of a particular paper may have different technical expertise and/or views, and the editors may have to make a decision based on conflicting advice.

The most useful reports, therefore, provide the editors with the information on which a decision should be based.

We may return to reviewers for further advice, particularly in cases where they disagree with each other, or where the authors believe they have been misunderstood on points of fact. We therefore ask that reviewers should be willing to provide follow-up advice as requested.

When reviewers agree to assess a paper, we consider this a commitment to review subsequent revisions. However, editors will not send a resubmitted paper back to the reviewers if it seems that the authors have not made a serious attempt to address the criticisms.

In cases where one reviewer alone opposes publication, we may consult the other reviewers as to whether s/he is applying an unduly critical standard. We occasionally bring in additional reviewers to resolve disputes, but we prefer to avoid doing so unless there is a specific issue, for example a specialist technical point, on which we feel a need for further advice.

Publishing Ethics of IJ

The Infopreneurship Journal (IJ) adopts the COPE guidelines on publication ethics.

Authors of IJ must confirm the following:

  • Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s)

  • Only unpublished manuscripts should be submitted

  • It is unethical to submit a manuscript to more than one journal concurrently

  • Any conflict of interest must be clearly stated

  • Acknowledge the sources of data used in the development of the manuscript

  • All errors discovered in the manuscript after submission must be swiftly communicated to the Editor.

Reviewers of IJ must confirm the following:

  • That all manuscripts are reviewed in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenry nor political values of author(s)

  • That any observed conflict of interest during the review process must be communicated to the Editor

  • That all information pertaining to the manuscript is kept confidential

  • That any information that may be the reason for the rejection of publication of a manuscript must be communicated to the Editor

Editors of IJ must confirm the following:

  • That all manuscripts are evaluated in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenry nor political values of authors

  • That information pertaining manuscripts are kept confidential

  • That any observed conflict of interest pertaining manuscripts must be disclosed

The Editorial Board takes responsibility for making publication decisions for submitted manuscripts based on the reviewer’s evaluation of the manuscript, policies of the journal editorial board and legal restrain acting against plagiarism, libel and copyright infringement.