e-Academia Journal (e-AJ) is an official journal of Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Terengganu with a registered e-ISSN 2289-6589. It is an open-access journal which published article is in English.

Since 2020, e-AJ has reviewed its aim and scope from a multidisciplinary to scholarly journal that apply theory and/or concept developed in all type of business operation and management practice and application including the management and service research. e-AJ examines a wide variety of business operation and management behaviour including the utilisation of information communication and technology in work processes and activities within any business setting.

We are published for industry practitioners and academic scholars. e-AJ seeks to provide current and most up-to-date research findings from empirical investigations which could be harnessed and applied to practical and theoretical situations within the reality of today’s business and management spectrum.

FREQUENCY OF PUBLICATION
Starting 2012, e-AJ is published biannually in May and November every year. The publication frequency of the journal does not include special issues.

Call for Papers announcement is released in January/February and July/August in every year. Submissions should adhere to our guidelines.

DURATION OF PUBLICATION PROCESS
Based on current practice, the publication process takes approximately within 100 – 120 days. All manuscripts are processed accordingly:

• Desk review process (within 30 days)
• Notification for accept or reject for review process to authors (within 10 days)
• Reviewing process (between 15 and 30 days)
• Notification of acceptance for final publication (within 15 days after the final revision is done by authors)
• Copy editing process (within 15 days)
• Final publication (within 20 days after the date of acceptance)

PUBLICATION ETHICS
e-AJ is a publication of UiTM Press Universiti Teknologi MARA and publishes peer-reviewed research articles from theory and/or concept developed in all types of business operation and management practice and application including the management and service research biannually. Papers to be contributed should be original and not published or considered as publication elsewhere.

Peer Review Process
To ensure the integrity of knowledge contribution and maintain the quality, e-AJ practices a double-blind blind review consisting of at least two to three peer reviewers for every manuscript.

All reviewers from various expertise are on voluntary basic. Author(s) details including name(s) and affiliation(s) will be removed from the manuscript prior reviewer assignment by the editors. This allows fair judgment and more room for constructive feedback provided by the reviewers to the author(s) without any prejudice.

Authorship
Authors’ details in a manuscript/article should be only persons or individuals who have made a significant contribution to the manuscript/article. Authors are responsible for all statements in articles, including changes made by editors. The corresponding author must be available for correspondence with an editor to answer questions during the editorial process and to approve the edited copy. Authors receive edited typescript for final approval. Changes cannot be made to the copy after the edited version has been approved.

Plagiarism
The manuscript/article is original and genuinely research work of the author(s). It has not been published in any publication platforms including journal, website, conference proceeding and chapter-in-book.

Submission should be accompanied by Turnitin/Ouriginal report of less than 30 percent (%) similarity index/score, and should adhere to the manuscript format in author guidelines that can be found in our official website.

e-AJ affirms that ethical publication practices and maintaining journal reputation are critical to ensure the success of development knowledge. Therefore, only high-quality manuscript/article will be considered and accepted for publication.

BENEFITS TO AUTHORS
e-AJ provides author benefits, such as free publication in PDFs with unlimited download, copyright policy with e-ISSN number to protect the intellectual property, and much more. Check out further information at our website.