Editorial Process
Article Submission
A general call for submission of paper will be issued online (on this website) and offline (through flyers) at the begining of every new issue. All submissions are to be sent as as e-mail attachment to bijed@uniben.edu, copying the managing editor at edwin.enofe@uniben.edu. Upon receipt of the submission, the editorial board will acknowledge receipt of manuscript(s) through the email address of the corresponding author.
Articles submitted articles must be the original work of author(s) and approved for submission by all co-authors. Hence, authors are liable for any copyright breach. Authorship of articles should be limited to only author(s) that has(have) significantly contributed to the submission.
Only articles that have not previously been published and are not under consideration by other journals should be submitted to BIJED. Similarly, manuscript(s) already submitted to BIJED should not be submitted to any other Journal for processing until the manuscript review process by the BIJED editorial board have been completed and editorial decision taken.
Article submission will be treated strictly on a first-come-first-served basis. Only submitted articles that comply with the authors and submission guidelines will be accepted and processed for review.
Article Processing/Review
All articles submitted to BIJED go through a double-blind peer review process by both Internal and External Reviewers. Submitted manuscripts initially pass through preliminary review, where they are pre-evaluated at the Editorial Office to check whether they meet the basic requirements and quality standards, and thus fit for further review.
Manuscripts that pass the preliminary review will be sent to independent reviewers who are selected based on their qualifications, expertise and experiences on the area of coverage of the paper to be reviewed. Each reviewer receive an honorarium for the article reviewed.
Depending on the reviewers recommendations, the reviewed article(s) may be sent back to the corresponding author to effect corrections. Once it is ascertained that the recommendations of the reviewers are effected, the article(s) will be sent for final review.
The final review is conducted by members of the Editorial Board, headed by the Editor-in-Chief . The final review will resuit in an editorial decision which may be the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript, or recommendation for further work. The corresponding author will be notified of the Editorial Decision.
- To enhance speedy communication during the review process, authors are encouraged to check their emails frequently, for correspondence from the editiorial team. Delays in authors' correspondence will be penalized (such papers might be removed from the review/publication process completely).
- Authors are banned from contacting Editors-in-Chief directly in relation to the review of their article(s). All correspondence related to manuscript review should be sent to entrepreneurshipdept@uniben.edu, copying the managing editor at edwin.enofe@uniben.edu.
- Article review takes between 4 to 8 weeks
Article Publication
Only submitted articles approved by the editors, as guided by the policies of the journal will be published. Articles are published biannually (in both soft copies (online) and hard copies) in June and December