About & policies
Aims & scope
The Journal of Applied Sciences, Management, Technology and Education Research (JASMTER) is a peer-reviewed, open-access, multidisciplinary journal. It publishes original research, reviews, and case studies across the applied sciences, management, technology, and education, providing a rigorous, rapid, and fully open venue for scholarship that bridges disciplines and connects theory with practice. We especially welcome work that cuts across these fields to address real-world problems.
Publication frequency: JASMTER publishes two issues a year, in June and December, with articles published online as soon as they are accepted. Volume 1, Issue 1 is scheduled for December 2026.
Open access
JASMTER is a fully open-access journal. All articles are freely available to read, download, and share immediately upon publication, with no subscription or reader fees. Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, allowing reuse with proper attribution to the author(s). Authors retain copyright to their work. JASMTER operates as a diamond open-access journal: there are no charges to either authors or readers.
Peer review
All submissions to JASMTER undergo single-blind peer review, in which the reviewers know the identity of the authors while the reviewers' identities remain confidential. Each manuscript is first checked by the editorial office for scope and completeness, then assigned to at least two independent expert reviewers matched to its subject area. Reviewers evaluate originality, methodological rigor, clarity, and contribution to the field, and recommend acceptance, revision, or rejection. Final decisions rest with the Editor-in-Chief. The journal is committed to a fair, timely, and constructive review process.
Publication ethics
JASMTER is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics and follows the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Authors must ensure their work is original, properly cited, and free from fabrication, falsification, or undisclosed conflicts of interest, and that all listed authors have contributed meaningfully to the work. Editors make decisions solely on scholarly merit, without regard to race, gender, religion, nationality, or institutional affiliation. Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential and disclose any competing interests. Allegations of misconduct are investigated in line with COPE guidelines, and corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern are issued when warranted.
Use of AI tools
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including large language models such as ChatGPT, cannot be listed as authors, because they cannot take responsibility for the work.
Authors must disclose any use of AI tools in writing, editing, data analysis, or producing images, naming the tool and describing how it was used, in the manuscript and in the 'Use of AI tools' field at submission. Routine spelling and grammar checking does not need to be declared. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality and integrity of all content, including anything produced with AI assistance. AI-generated images are not accepted unless AI is itself the subject of the research and its use is fully described.
Reviewers and editors must not upload manuscripts, or any part of them, into AI tools, as this breaches the confidentiality of peer review. Editors may use screening tools that estimate AI-generated text; such results prompt questions to the authors and are never used on their own to reject a manuscript.
Authorship and contributions
Everyone listed as an author must have made a substantial contribution to the work (conception, design, data collection, analysis or interpretation), helped draft or critically revise it, approved the final version, and agreed to be accountable for it. People who do not meet these criteria should be thanked in the Acknowledgements. Authors describe each person's contribution (we recommend the CRediT roles), and the author list may only be changed after submission with the written agreement of all authors. The corresponding author handles all communication with the journal.
Conflicts of interest
Authors, reviewers and editors must declare any financial or personal interests that could be seen to influence their work. Authors state competing interests at submission, and the statement is published with the article. Reviewers must decline an invitation if they have a conflict with the authors, and the platform automatically excludes co-authors from the reviewer list.
Editors and editorial board members may submit their own work, but they take no part in its handling: another editor manages the peer review and decision (the platform blocks an editor from recording a decision on their own manuscript). Papers by editors and board members are kept to a small minority of the journal's content.
Data availability
Authors must include a Data Availability Statement explaining where the data that support the findings can be found (for example in a public repository such as Zenodo, Figshare or Dryad, with a DOI), or why they cannot be shared, for instance to protect participant privacy. We encourage authors to share data, code and materials openly wherever possible. The statement is published with the article.
Plagiarism and similarity screening
All manuscripts submitted to JASMTER are screened for originality using plagiarism-detection software before peer review. Submissions found to contain plagiarism, self-plagiarism, or improperly attributed material will be returned to the authors or rejected. By submitting, authors confirm that the work is their own, has not been published elsewhere, and is not under consideration by another journal. Proper citation of all sources is required.
Research misconduct
The journal takes all allegations of research or publication misconduct seriously, including plagiarism, data fabrication or falsification, image manipulation, duplicate publication, citation manipulation, undisclosed conflicts of interest, authorship disputes and peer-review manipulation. Concerns may be raised by anyone, including anonymously, through the editorial office. We follow the COPE flowcharts: we ask the authors for an explanation, and where necessary contact their institution. Depending on the outcome, we may reject the manuscript, publish a correction or expression of concern, or retract the article.
Corrections and retractions
Published articles are part of the permanent scholarly record and are never silently changed. Minor errors that do not affect the findings are fixed with a published correction (erratum) notice linked to the article, and the version number is updated. Articles whose findings are unreliable, or that involve misconduct, are retracted following COPE's retraction guidelines: the article stays online, clearly marked 'Retracted', with a notice explaining the reason.
Complaints and appeals
Authors may appeal an editorial decision by writing to the editorial office within 30 days, explaining clearly why they believe the decision was wrong and providing any new evidence. Appeals are reviewed by an editor who was not involved in the original decision, who may consult additional reviewers; the outcome of an appeal is final.
Complaints about the journal, its staff, editors or processes should be sent to the editorial office. Every complaint is acknowledged and investigated by someone not involved in the matter complained about. If a complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction, you may refer it to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Copyright and licensing
Authors retain copyright in their work without restriction. By publishing with Journal of Applied Sciences, Management, Technology and Education Research, authors grant the journal the right to publish the article as the version of record, and license it to everyone under the CC BY 4.0 license, which allows anyone to share and adapt it for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors may deposit any version of their work, including the published version, in repositories or on personal websites at any time.
Archiving and digital preservation
Articles and their metadata are openly available on this site and harvestable through the journal's OAI-PMH interface. The journal is arranging long-term digital preservation with an external archive, and will name that archive here once the arrangement is in place.
Author charges
Free to publish - diamond open access. There are never any charges to readers: all articles are free to access.
Editorial board
- Dr. Amarachukwu Felix E. · Editor-in-Chief · Cornell University, United States
- Dr. Nwankwo Ojionu Chimeziem Elijah · Associate Editor, Management