Guideline for Authors
Notice
Both authors and editors want articles published as quickly and accurately as possible.
Manuscripts with citation errors or that do not comply with the Seoul Journal of Business (SJB) style are an impediment to timely publication. Thus, we must insist that manuscripts submitted for consideration meet our requirements for reference citations and style. No manuscript will be accepted for publication until these requirements have been met to the satisfaction of the SJB editors. The SJB accepts and publishes papers in English.
Manuscripts with citation errors or that do not comply with the Seoul Journal of Business (SJB) style are an impediment to timely publication. Thus, we must insist that manuscripts submitted for consideration meet our requirements for reference citations and style. No manuscript will be accepted for publication until these requirements have been met to the satisfaction of the SJB editors. The SJB accepts and publishes papers in English.
Author Contact Information
We must be able to contact you while your article is being processed.
You may be queried for critical information, and you will be sent page proofs to review. Be sure to provide us with the home and office phone numbers, fax number, and email address of your designated contact author (and the co-authors, if possible). If the contact author will be on an extended leave (vacation, sabbatical, etc.) during this time, please send us new contact information. We may withdraw your article from our schedule if we cannot contact you when the need arises.
You may be queried for critical information, and you will be sent page proofs to review. Be sure to provide us with the home and office phone numbers, fax number, and email address of your designated contact author (and the co-authors, if possible). If the contact author will be on an extended leave (vacation, sabbatical, etc.) during this time, please send us new contact information. We may withdraw your article from our schedule if we cannot contact you when the need arises.
For clarification or other information please contact
- Address :
Woo-Jong Lee Ph.D., Editor
Seoul National University Business School
Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu Seoul 08826, Korea - Tel : 82-2-880-6921
- Email : snusjb@snu.ac.kr
For comment or query regarding this web site please contact snusjb@snu.ac.kr
Review Process
1. Manuscript Submission
① The Seoul Journal of Business (SJB) considers and reviews only those manuscripts that abide by the SJB submission guidelines..
② Manuscripts may be submitted year-round and submissions are open to all researchers.
③ The editor will notify the author of the completion of submission to SJB via email.
① The Seoul Journal of Business (SJB) considers and reviews only those manuscripts that abide by the SJB submission guidelines..
② Manuscripts may be submitted year-round and submissions are open to all researchers.
③ The editor will notify the author of the completion of submission to SJB via email.
2. Reviewer Selection
① If the manuscript does not abide by the submission guidelines or does not align with the nature and scope of SJB, under the discretion of the editor, the manuscript may be desk rejected. The editor selects up to 3 reviewers with expertise in the respective academic fields, a process during which the editor may consult the editorial board for recommendations. Reviewers will not receive any author-relevant information from the editor.
② The editor officially sends out a review request to the selected reviewers via e-mail.
③ The editor must redact all author-relevant information from the manuscript.
① If the manuscript does not abide by the submission guidelines or does not align with the nature and scope of SJB, under the discretion of the editor, the manuscript may be desk rejected. The editor selects up to 3 reviewers with expertise in the respective academic fields, a process during which the editor may consult the editorial board for recommendations. Reviewers will not receive any author-relevant information from the editor.
② The editor officially sends out a review request to the selected reviewers via e-mail.
③ The editor must redact all author-relevant information from the manuscript.
3. Reviewer Report Form Processing and Review Results Announcement
① Reviewers should submit the completed ‘reviewer report form’, written in English, within 21 days via e-mail. In the case that the reviewer wishes to fill out the reviewer report form in Korean; the editor may allow the reviewer to do so if at least one of the authors can fully comprehend a Korean reviewer report. If the reviewer fails to submit the report within 21 days, the editor should send a reminder e-mail to the reviewer and extend the review deadline by 7 days. Should the reviewer fail to send back a completed reviewer report within the extended deadline, the editor should cancel the review request and send a new review request to another reviewer. However, in the case that the reviewer did not review the manuscript within the given deadline yet asks for an additional extension of the deadline, then under the editor’s discretion, the deadline may be extended.
② Upon evaluating the review results, the editor makes the decision to accept, conditionally accept, revise and resubmit, or reject the manuscript and the editor should notify the author via e-mail.
③ Authors invited to revise the manuscript should make the requested revisions unless the request is deemed erroneous and should submit the ‘response to reviewer form’ to the editor.
④ If the author does not express intentions to revise and resubmit the manuscript within 6 months, then the manuscript is regarded as withdrawn.
⑤ The editor decides whether the revised manuscript, submitted alongside the response to reviewer form, will be accepted. Should additional review process be necessary, then the 1st round reviewer may reevaluate the revised manuscript or a new reviewer may review the manuscript and the author will be notified via step ②.
⑥ Steps ③, ④, ⑤ should be repeated if additional revisions are necessary.
⑦ After the manuscript is accepted, if a paper identical or similar in content is published in other Journals or if it is found to have plagiarized another paper, then the editor and the editorial board should convene and decide on the retraction or cancellation of publication while the author will be penalized with a 3-year disqualification from SJB submissions.
⑧ SJB published research copyrights belongs to the Seoul National University Business School and author(s) must submit a ‘copyright transfer agreement’ prior to publication.
① Reviewers should submit the completed ‘reviewer report form’, written in English, within 21 days via e-mail. In the case that the reviewer wishes to fill out the reviewer report form in Korean; the editor may allow the reviewer to do so if at least one of the authors can fully comprehend a Korean reviewer report. If the reviewer fails to submit the report within 21 days, the editor should send a reminder e-mail to the reviewer and extend the review deadline by 7 days. Should the reviewer fail to send back a completed reviewer report within the extended deadline, the editor should cancel the review request and send a new review request to another reviewer. However, in the case that the reviewer did not review the manuscript within the given deadline yet asks for an additional extension of the deadline, then under the editor’s discretion, the deadline may be extended.
② Upon evaluating the review results, the editor makes the decision to accept, conditionally accept, revise and resubmit, or reject the manuscript and the editor should notify the author via e-mail.
③ Authors invited to revise the manuscript should make the requested revisions unless the request is deemed erroneous and should submit the ‘response to reviewer form’ to the editor.
④ If the author does not express intentions to revise and resubmit the manuscript within 6 months, then the manuscript is regarded as withdrawn.
⑤ The editor decides whether the revised manuscript, submitted alongside the response to reviewer form, will be accepted. Should additional review process be necessary, then the 1st round reviewer may reevaluate the revised manuscript or a new reviewer may review the manuscript and the author will be notified via step ②.
⑥ Steps ③, ④, ⑤ should be repeated if additional revisions are necessary.
⑦ After the manuscript is accepted, if a paper identical or similar in content is published in other Journals or if it is found to have plagiarized another paper, then the editor and the editorial board should convene and decide on the retraction or cancellation of publication while the author will be penalized with a 3-year disqualification from SJB submissions.
⑧ SJB published research copyrights belongs to the Seoul National University Business School and author(s) must submit a ‘copyright transfer agreement’ prior to publication.
