Principles of Transparency

Peer-review process
All submitted articles are evaluated at the submission to meet the structural and subject principles of Project Based Management. The matched articles will gone under a double-blinded peer-review process by at least 3 reviewers (expert in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff) who are selected by the Editorial Board members according to their field specialties. The Editorial Board members have the final responsibility to select the articles.
 
Governing body
Project Based Management is under the scientific control of Editorial Board whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. Some executive roles of the Editorial Board members are delegated to the Editor-in-Chief who is well-known in the journal’s scope.
 
Editorial team
Project Based Management is under the scientific supervision of the Editorial Team whose members are all experts with high number of publications in their field.
 
Author fees/Access
There are No Fees or Charges at all for submission, reviewing and publishing processes in Project Based Management.
Project Based Management follows the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.
 
Copyright
The content of Project Based Management is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, we are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants you such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.
 
Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct
Publisher and editors of Project Based Management are reasonable to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In doing so, Project Based Management follows COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.
 
Ownership and management
Project Based Management is owned by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, and is managed and published by YektaPub Co.
 
Conflicts of interests
All Project Based Management Editorial Board members and the Editor-in-Chief submitted articles are gone under the same reviewing process as the other authors gone. In the cases that a reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript or a reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article (all authors are filling the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest at the submission time) Project Based Management will follow COPE’s guidelines.
 
Revenue sources/Advertising/Direct marketing
Project Based Management is financially supported completely by Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, and has no other sources for earning funds. Project Based Management accepts No advertisements in the site or even as a report article.
 
Publishing schedule/Archiving
Project Based Management is published 4 issues per year. All the content from the beginning to the end will be available for ever on Project Based Management exclusive website. Also Project Based Management is included at EBSCOhost and has the plan to enter to Scopus and Thomson-Reuters databases.