About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) is a bilingual journal (English / French) that publishes, free of charges, theoretical, empirical and / or critical texts focusing on one or more dimensions of finance in the world, since 2010.
It is devoted to the publication of high quality research documents in all areas of scientific research, finance, accounting, economics and social sciences.
Peer Review Process
Your original manuscript, submitted in MS-Word, is double blind peer-reviewed, the reviewers' identities remain anonymous to authors. You will be informed of their decision within 2 to 4 weeks.
Peer Review Process / Responsibility for the Reviewers
We recommend that you also see the Author Guidelines and Polices page to see which points authors should take into consideration prior to submission of their papers for the publication. Reviewers should have no conflicts of interest with respect to the research, the authors and/or the research funders.
Editorial Responsibilities
Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article. Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept, they only accept a paper when reasonably certain. When errors are found, they promote publication of correction or retraction, and preserve anonymity of reviewers.
Review Guidelines
Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) highly appreciates the reviewers kind support by agreeing to review an article for our journal. Kindly make sure you review the paper confidentially and avoid contacting the authors.
Before they are sent to reviewers, all Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) papers are previewed by our editor-in-chief. The papers are also checked for their originality using a plagiarism software. However to our experience, there have been cases of plagiarism which the software has failed to detect. If you doubt the originality of any part(s) of the work, please inform the editor.
Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) reviewers are requested to evaluate the articles based on a number of evaluative criteria available in the Review Form and to leave comments in the manuscript itself. These comments are very valuable for the professional development of any authors. Having reviewed the paper, the reviewer is requested to make any of the following decisions:
- Accept as it is;
- Accept with minor revisions;
- Accept with major revisions;
- Reject
Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) papers are proofread before they are published, and the reviewers are by no means obliged to correct or mark language errors or typos. Reviewing is undeniably an invaluable and noble act, we cannot compensated it by any means.
Reviewers are requested to review the Review Policy of the journal before reviewing any paper.
Disclaimer
Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) Managing Editor is not involved in editorials decisions.
Open Access Policy
Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) provides immediate open access (Diamond Open Access) to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Archiving
Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) utilizes the LOCKSS and 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.
Indexing/Abstracting
The Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) is referenced/indexed on :
CNUDST, DOAJ, AJOL, OCLC, PKP, Hyper Article HAL-CCSD, Worldcat, EBSCO, BASE Bielefeld Academy, OJS, Mirabel, RePEc...
Publication ethics and Publication malpractice
Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) is committed to the academic community in ensuring ethics, transparency and quality in publication. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden. Papers found to be plagiarized will be removed . All received papers are checked with a Plagiarism Detection Software Program offered by sponsors before review process. While signing the publication agreement the author(s) have to warrant that the article and associated materials are original; it does not infringe the copyright of anyone and it was neither submitted nor published previously. Furthermore the authors have to warrant that there was a full consensus of all the authors. In respect of the COPE's Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers (for more information see COPE), the publication ethics of the Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) includes the most important ethical standards for involved parties including authors, editors and peer reviewers. Any conflicts of interests are to be reported directly to the editor of Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF).
Editors' duties
Editors have complete responsibility and authority to reject/accept an article. Editors should have no conflict of interest with respect to articles they reject/accept, they only accept a paper when reasonably certain. When errors are found, they promote publication of correction or retraction, and preserve anonymity of reviewers. Editors have to maintain the confidentiality of any information related to submitted manuscripts. Editors have to accomplish the evaluation of the manuscripts an objective and nondiscriminatory way.
Unpublished materials of submitted manuscripts must not be used for other research purposes without written consents of the author(s).
Reviewer's duties
Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) highly appreciates the reviewers kind support by agreeing to review an article for our journal. Kindly make sure you review the paper confidentially, avoid contacting the authors, do not used for personal benefit and reviewed objectively. The reviewers must track any uncited sources or materials that have been published before.
Before they are sent to reviewers, all Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) papers are previewed by our editor-in-chief. The papers are also checked for their originality using a plagiarism software. However to our experience, there have been cases of plagiarism which the software has failed to detect. If you doubt the originality of any part(s) of the work, please inform the editor.
Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) reviewers are requested to evaluate the articles based on a number of evaluative criteria available in the Review Form and to leave comments in the manuscript itself. These comments are very valuable for the professional development of any authors. Having reviewed the paper, the reviewer is requested to make any of the following decisions:
- Accept as it is;
- Accept with minor revisions;
- Accept with major revisions;
- Reject
Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF) papers are proofread before they are published, and the reviewers are by no means obliged to correct or mark language errors or typos. Reviewing is undeniably an invaluable and noble act, we cannot compensated it by any means.
Reviewers are requested to review the Review Policy of the journal before reviewing any paper.
Please read our Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement.
Author's duties
The authors are committed to submit only original work. Therefore, submitted manuscript and already published research are unethical and unacceptable.
The manuscripts should include sufficient details and references for replication purposes. Only significantly contributing citations should be listed in the manuscripts.
The corresponding authors take full responsibility for the content and all legal aspects of their manuscripts.
The authors should communicate any applicable funding or financial support of the research and the funder's relation to the contribution.
The authors are committed to inform the editor about discovered errors in their already published manuscripts.
Sponsors
Sponsored by:
APREV (Association for promotion of virtual research and teatching )
AEISGG (ISGG teachers association)
RED (Research, Entreprises and Decision) Laboratory : https://red-laboratory.net
Journal History
December 2010: 1st issue of Journal of Academic Finance (JoAF).
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December 2016: evolvement to two issues per year, N° 1 published in spring and N ° 2 at the end of the year.
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June 10, 2017: We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Pr. Jean Guy DEGOS, member of the editorial board of our journal of academic finance, professor emeritus in management sciences, graduate of accounting, commander of the Academic palms.
All our condolences to his family.
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April 7, 2021: "journal of academic finance" has just obtained its first Hindex and its Impact Factor 2020 from RePEc (research papers in economics), with their service CitEc (5 years H=2 & 5 years IF = 0.05):
http://citec.repec.org/s/2020/
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January 12, 2022: We would like to kindly inform you that the review "Journal of Academic Finance" (ISSN: 1923-2993)” has passed the evaluation process positively and is indexed in the ICI Journals Master List database for 2020.
Based on the information submitted in the evaluation and the analysis of the issues of the journal from 2020, Index Copernicus Experts calculated your Index Copernicus Value (ICV) for 2020.
ICV 2020 = 63.47
The ICV for 2020 is visible on the full list of indexed journals at ICI Journals Master List 2020 https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/formjml
and in Journal`'s Passport: https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/details...
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September 12, 2022: We are pleased to inform you that the Journal of Academic Finance, is live on African Journals OnLine.
The journal homepage on AJOL can be found here: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jaf/index.
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October 15, 2022 : joaf joined the list of rated journals by The Journal Publishing Practices and Standards ( JPPS ) and was indexed with one star:
https://www.journalquality.info/en/journals-all/?platform=ajol
