The Journal of Business, Economics, Sustainability, Leadership and Innovation

If you are interested in reviewing manuscripts for the BESLI journal, the BESLI Publications Board would like to invite your participation. Manuscript reviewers are vital to the publications process. As a reviewer, you would gain valuable experience in publishing.

The Board is particularly interested in encouraging members of underrepresented groups to participate more in this process.

If you are interested in reviewing manuscripts, please write to Joseph Jacobsen at joseph.jacobsen@cuw.edu

To be selected as a reviewer, you must be willing to thoroughly familiarize yourself of the BESLI website as soon as available and associated documents such as the authors’ guidelines, manuscript template, call for papers and the BESLI purpose, as they become available.

Learn more about the review process here.

Please note the following important points:

The experience of publishing provides a reviewer with the basis for preparing a thorough, objective review. Previous publication experience as an author or reviewer with a scholarly, peer reviewed academic journal is highly preferred. A thorough understanding of the scientific method (preliminary matter, introduction, literature review, method, analysis, findings, discussion, future research and ending matter) and the American Psychological Association guiding principles for a scientific research paper is necessary.

It is critical to be a regular reader of empirical journals that are most central to the area or journal for which you would like to review and the subtopic expertise you represent. Current knowledge of recently published research in this space provides a reviewer with the knowledge base to evaluate a new submission within the context of existing research.

To select the appropriate reviewers for each manuscript, the editor needs detailed information. Please include your vita with your cover letter in English. In your letter, please identify which relative journal(s) you are familiar with and describe your area of research expertise. Be as specific as possible.

Reviewing a manuscript takes several hours. If you are selected to review a manuscript, be prepared to invest the necessary time to evaluate the manuscript thoroughly.

For studies utilizing human participants, the treatment of human participants during the study should be in accordance with the ethical standards of the authors’ institutional review board or accepted professional standards of the authors’ countries of origin. It would be helpful if the authors would make such a statement in their cover letter and identify the standards that apply to the research embodied in the manuscript. If the authors in their cover letter identify no such ethical standard, the pertinent standards of the American Psychological Association, or National Institutes of Health (United States) will apply.

Proper treatment of human subjects will be a point of consideration during the manuscript review process. It is understood, furthermore, that the full burden of responsibility for ethical compliance is ultimately on the authors, not the Journal, its Editor, or Publisher.