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 535,006
PDF Download 463,424
View Per Article 1311.29
PDF Download Per Article 1135.84
Number of Submissions 3,705
Acceptance Rate 6
Time to Accept (Days) 135
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 2 - Serial Number 72, Summer 2026 

Publication Information

Publisher

Director-in-Charge
Editor-in-Chief
Deputy Editor
Associate Editor
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Frequency
Quarterly
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