Journal of Improvement Management

Journal of Improvement Management

Number of Volumes 16
Number of Issues 60
Number of Articles 391
Number of Contributors 852
Article View 499,502
PDF Download 428,109
View Per Article 1277.5
PDF Download Per Article 1094.91
Number of Submissions 3,674
Acceptance Rate 6
Time to Accept (Days) 134
Number of Indexing Databases 17
Number of Reviewers 147

Journal of Improvement Management is an open-access, peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to theoretical and empirical articles. Papers are subject to a double-blind peer review process to ensure the quality of their underlying research methodology and argument. This journal follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards by ethical laws.

The journal was established by Defence Industries Training and Research Institute. The submitted papers will be published after review and approval by the editorial board. Honorable professors and researchers would be highly appreciative if they visited this site, registered, submitted, and set up their papers based on the authors' guidelines. Therefore, visiting the journal in person or calling the journal office is not recommended, so all connections with authors and reviewers are made through the website. (Read More...)


Bibliographic Information

 

Current Issue: Volume 20, Issue 1 - Serial Number 71, Spring 2026 

Publication Information

Publisher

Director-in-Charge
Editor-in-Chief
Deputy Editor
Associate Editor
Managing Editor

Frequency
Quarterly
Print ISSN
Online ISSN

Keywords Cloud

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