Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Research in Management and Accounting (RIMA) is open access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Faculty of Business Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University. RIMA receives rigorous articles and contains the original research paper. It covers the conceptual development and results of the newest research related to management and accounting, including strategic management, organizational behavior, organizational development, talent or human capital management, management information systems, operational management, financial management, marketing management, consumer behavior, financial accounting, managerial accounting, auditing, accounting information systems, e-business, business environment analytics, and other relevant topics. Therefore, RIMA accepts the articles from Indonesian authors and other countries. Accepted papers are in English only. We welcome other language articles, subject to translation cost prior to publication acceptance.

 

Section Policies

Article

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The manuscripts are all submitted by the author through RIMA online system. The peer-review process as follows:

  1. The editor conducts an initial review of all manuscripts. The purpose of the initial review to make sure the manuscripts cover the focus and scope of RIMA. And also to make sure there is no possibility of misconduct including authorship, ownership, and plagiarism.
  2. If the submitted manuscripts fulfill the first step, the submitted manuscript will be sent to two reviewers who do not have the potential conflict of interest. The peer-review process is blind. The review process takes 2-4 weeks for each reviewer.
  3. The reviewers return the recommendation to the RIMA editors. The recommendation provides the deliberation of the submitted manuscripts and also constructive comments which are minor or major revisions.
  4. The editors will send the reviewers’ recommendation to the author. The author has a maximum of one week for minor revision to improve his/her manuscripts. If the revision is major, the author may take longer to improve the manuscripts.
  5. The revision manuscripts from the author are sent back to the previous reviewer.
  6. The final decision is lie on the Editorial Board.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available without charge to the public, supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles in Research in Management and Accounting (RIMA) published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download,  copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options, currently being defined for this journal as follows: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Creative Commons License

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS 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. More...