Journal of Improvement Management

Journal of Improvement Management

Number of Volumes 16
Number of Issues 61
Number of Articles 408
Number of Contributors 889
Article View 538573
PDF Download 468,493
View Per Article 1320.03
PDF Download Per Article 1148.27
Number of Submissions 3,707
Acceptance Rate 6
Time to Accept (Days) 135
Number of Indexing Databases 17
Number of Reviewers 148

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 2 - Serial Number 72, Summer 2026 

Publication Information

Publisher

Director-in-Charge
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor

Frequency
Quarterly
Print ISSN
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Keywords Cloud

  • Industrial policy
  • Innovation
  • Grounded theory
  • Iran
  • Knowledge Management
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  • Development
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  • Innovation ecosystem
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  • Agility
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  • game theory
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  • Technological Catch-Up
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  • Historical Analysis
  • Technology Transfer
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  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis
  • absorptive capacity
  • organizational performance
  • Theme analysis
  • Institutional Analysis
  • Supply chain
  • Science and technology policy
  • Technology Development
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  • Outsourcing
  • Challenges
  • Blockchain
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  • Learning
  • COVID-19
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  • organizational commitment
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  • Industrial Policymaking
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  • Organizational Agility