Asian Journal of Management and Commerce

About Asian Journal of Management and Commerce

About the Asian Journal of Management and Commerce

The Asian Journal of Management and Commerce (AJMC) is a peer-reviewed journal of management and commerce research published from India, available in both print and online editions, carrying the print ISSN 2708-4515 and the electronic ISSN 2708-4523. It publishes research across the management and commerce disciplines — human resource management, marketing, finance, banking, entrepreneurship, organisational behaviour and the many applied management fields listed in its own scope statement — with an author and reader base concentrated in India and elsewhere in Asia. The journal's official site is allcommercejournal.com, and its articles are published as PDFs with DOIs under the prefix 10.22271/27084515, in the citation form "Asian Journal of Management and Commerce 2026; 7(2)" followed by page numbers. Volume numbering places its first volume in 2020: volume 6 corresponds to 2025 and volume 7 to 2026.

Two identity points deserve emphasis at the outset, because both are garbled in secondary data. First, the journal is Indian: its editorial contact numbers carry Indian country codes, its submission correspondence is handled from India, and its published authors are predominantly affiliated with Indian universities, alongside contributors from countries including Bangladesh, Indonesia and Iraq. The earlier template version of this Journals World record labelled the journal with the country code ZA (South Africa); no evidence on the journal's own site supports a South African origin, and the record is flagged in this profile's reporting as a structured-field error. Second, the journal is frequently confused with similarly named titles — the Asian Journal of Management, the Asian Journal of Management Research and others — which are different journals with different ISSNs and publishers. The identifiers that define this journal are 2708-4515 and 2708-4523, its web home allcommercejournal.com, and its DOI prefix 10.22271/27084515; any listing that does not match those markers is describing a different publication.

History and Development

The journal began publication in 2020, in a period when Indian management and commerce scholarship was expanding rapidly and when doctoral and faculty publication requirements in Indian universities were creating strong demand for peer-reviewed outlets in the field. Its official site describes a half-yearly frequency — two issues a year — although the volume structure visible in its published archive (issues numbered within each volume year, with special issues appearing alongside regular numbers) shows a journal publishing substantial annual volume: recent volume years carry long page sequences running into the thousands of pages, indicating a high throughput of articles per year for a journal of its age. That growth pattern is typical of the journal's segment of Indian academic publishing: broad scope, frequent intake, fast turnaround offers and a predominantly regional author base publishing empirical studies of Indian business, banking, marketing and public-sector contexts.

The journal's own announcements illustrate its operating model. Alongside regular submission, it advertises a fast-track publication service intended to shorten the time to decision and publication, under which authors who opt in can have an article published within about a week of submission, arranged by writing to the editor or calling the editorial office. Its articles display a consistent house format — received and accepted dates printed on each paper, a stated impact metric, the journal's ISSNs on the PDF masthead, and a DOI assigned per article — and its recent issues show the breadth of its intake, from maritime higher-education policy and start-up incubators in Uttar Pradesh to consumer studies in Himachal Pradesh, business analytics in Bangladeshi financial institutions, and systematic literature reviews in marketing and organisational behaviour. A publisher or sponsoring institution name is not publicly disclosed on the journal's homepage in a form this profile could verify, so none is asserted here; the journal presents itself through its editorial office contacts rather than through a named publishing house.

Scope and Subject Coverage

The journal's stated scope is deliberately comprehensive. Its own abstracting-and-scope statement lists, among its fields: human resource management; organisational behaviour and organisational management; international business; knowledge management; environmental management; data analysis and decision making; technology and operations management; strategic decision making; negotiations and competitive decision making; ethics in management; corporate governance; corporate social responsibility; entrepreneurship and innovation; public management; rural management; general management; hotel management; intellectual property rights; education management; communication management; lifecycle management; spiritual management; tourism, hospitality and leisure management; inventory management; waste management; hospital management; agricultural marketing; and food products marketing. The earlier template record for this journal highlighted consumer behaviour and marketing influence, banking sector performance and management, microfinance and financial inclusion, and employee-related topics among its focal areas, which matches the centre of gravity of its published contents: marketing and consumer studies, banking and finance studies of Indian and South Asian institutions, human-resource and organisational studies, and entrepreneurship research.

In practice, the journal functions as a generalist management-and-commerce outlet rather than a specialist one. A typical issue mixes conceptual and review papers with questionnaire-based empirical studies, case material from Indian states and industries, and bibliometric or systematic reviews. For authors, the breadth means that fit is rarely the obstacle: work in almost any recognised management or commerce sub-field falls inside the stated scope. For readers and evaluators, the same breadth means the journal should be read article by article — the quality signal of a generalist, high-throughput journal lies in individual papers and their methods, not in a narrow editorial specialisation. Researchers citing AJMC articles should cite them with full volume, issue, page and DOI details, since the journal's name is close enough to several other Asian management journals to make abbreviated citations genuinely ambiguous.

Submission, Peer Review and Publication Practice

The journal's homepage sets out its submission route plainly. Online submission is strongly recommended: manuscripts are sent to the journal's editorial email address (allcommercejournal@gmail.com), a manuscript number is mailed to the corresponding author within about a week or sooner, and all manuscripts are subject to a peer-review process. The journal states the standard originality conditions — submitted work must not be previously published and must not be under consideration elsewhere — and says that accepted papers are published without delay in a subsequent issue. Detailed author instructions are provided on the site, and the editorial office publishes phone contacts for queries, including a dedicated line for the fast-track service. The journal describes itself as peer-reviewed, and each published article prints its received and accepted dates, which allows readers to see the review interval for any given paper; intervals visible in recent issues are short, commonly a matter of weeks between receipt and acceptance, and authors choosing the advertised fast-track route are offered publication within about a week of submission.

Pricing and fee information is not stated on the journal's homepage in a form this profile could verify, and this profile therefore does not quote an article processing charge: authors should confirm any charges directly with the editorial office before submitting, and should also confirm the terms of the fast-track service if they intend to use it. That caution is practical rather than critical: for journals in this segment, fee schedules and service terms change, and the editorial office — reachable at the contacts on the journal's site — is the only authoritative source for its current terms.

Metrics and Indexing: Reading the Claims Carefully

Each AJMC article PDF displays an "Impact Factor (RJIF): 5.61" line on its masthead. Authors and evaluators should understand exactly what this is and is not. RJIF denotes a Research Journal Impact Factor-style metric issued by private indexing services; it is not the Journal Impact Factor from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports, and this journal is not presented here as holding a Clarivate impact factor or a Scopus CiteScore. Bibliometric compilations that track the wider journal ecosystem record a modest h-index of 6 for the title — the figure carried in this record's earlier template version — which is consistent with a young journal, founded in 2020, whose citation base is still forming. The journal's homepage heads a section "Abstracting and Indexing Information", but in the version consulted for this profile that heading introduces the journal's scope statement rather than a verifiable list of named databases; no specific Scopus, Web of Science or DOAJ listing for ISSN 2708-4515 / 2708-4523 is claimed in this profile, because none could be verified from the journal's own pages at the time of writing. Researchers whose institutions require publication in a specifically indexed outlet should check the relevant database's source list directly for these ISSNs before submitting.

This careful reading is not a dismissal of the journal. It is a young, active, broad-scope regional journal with a real and growing archive, DOI-registered articles and a stated peer-review process, serving a demonstrable community of Indian and Asian management scholars. Its value to that community does not depend on metrics it does not hold, and authors serve themselves best by choosing it for what it verifiably is — a fast, accessible, generalist management and commerce outlet — rather than on the basis of masthead metrics whose issuing body is a private service rather than one of the major citation databases.

Readership, Authorship and Place in the Field

The journal's authorship, visible across its recent issues, is anchored in Indian universities — research scholars and faculty in commerce and management departments feature prominently — with a meaningful minority of papers from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iraq and other Asian countries, and topics that follow that geography: Indian banking and microfinance, state-level entrepreneurship ecosystems, consumer behaviour in Indian markets, and management questions in South and Southeast Asian institutions. Its readership is the corresponding community of management scholars, doctoral candidates building publication records, and practitioners looking for regionally grounded studies. Within Journals World, no second record for this exact journal was found: searches by title and by slug variants returned no twin carrying these ISSNs, and the similarly named Asian management journals that exist in the wider literature are distinct publications that should never be merged into this record.

For librarians and bibliographers, the record to maintain is: Asian Journal of Management and Commerce, print ISSN 2708-4515, electronic ISSN 2708-4523, published from India, first volume 2020, two issues a year as its stated frequency with additional special issues in practice, website allcommercejournal.com, DOI prefix 10.22271/27084515. For prospective authors, the checklist is equally concrete: confirm your topic falls within the journal's broad management and commerce scope; prepare the manuscript to the journal's instructions to authors; submit to the editorial office and keep your manuscript number; expect a peer-review decision on the journal's stated timetable, or ask the office directly if you need the fast-track service; verify any fee with the office in writing; and verify current indexing in the specific database your institution requires, using the ISSNs, before you rely on it.

Key Facts

• Title: Asian Journal of Management and Commerce (AJMC), from 2020 (volume 7 = 2026)
• Country: India (editorial contacts and authorship; a ZA/South Africa label in secondary data is incorrect)
• ISSN: 2708-4515 (print); 2708-4523 (online)
• Frequency: Half-yearly as stated by the journal (two issues a year), with special issues in practice; print and online editions
• Website and submission: allcommercejournal.com; submissions to the editorial office email shown on the site; DOI prefix 10.22271/27084515
• Peer review: Stated peer-review process; received/accepted dates printed on articles; optional fast-track service advertised
• Metrics note: Masthead "RJIF 5.61" is a private-service metric, not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor; recorded h-index 6; no Scopus/Web of Science/DOAJ listing verified from the journal's own pages at time of writing

Inside the Journal's Pages: Article Types and Regional Role

The published archive shows four recurring article types. The largest group is the empirical survey study: an Indian or regional research question — consumer behaviour toward a product category, service quality in banks, employee attitudes in a public-sector organisation, adoption of a technology by small firms — investigated with a structured questionnaire, a defined sample, and descriptive and inferential statistics of the kind visible in its recent demographic studies of organic-food consumption, which report means, standard deviations and group-difference tests across hundreds of respondents. The second type is the analytical or policy essay, often by faculty authors, addressing an institutional question such as the future of maritime higher education under international regulation, or the role of incubators and accelerators in a state start-up ecosystem, argued from official statistics and programme documents. The third type is the systematic or bibliometric review, prepared to recognised reporting frameworks — its recent reviews follow the PRISMA flow for study selection and use standard bibliometric tooling to map a field's authors, sources and themes across decades. The fourth is the conceptual and case-based paper, applying management theory to a specific organisation, sector or classroom-relevant problem. Received and accepted dates, author affiliations and DOIs are printed on each article, so the archive is transparent about who published what, where they were based and how long review took.

The journal's regional role follows from that mix. Indian commerce and management academia produces a very large volume of doctoral and faculty research, much of it studying Indian districts, states, banks, universities and consumer markets that international journals rarely have reason to publish. A generalist national journal with a fast, low-friction submission route gives that research a citable home: a study of start-up incubation in Uttar Pradesh, of non-banking financial institutions in Bangladesh, or of organic-produce consumption in Himachal Pradesh towns is exactly the kind of locally grounded work that fills AJMC's issues, and exactly the kind that regional scholars, supervisors and policy readers search for. The journal's author base — research scholars and faculty at Indian universities prominent among them, joined by authors from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iraq and elsewhere in Asia — and its print-plus-online format both serve that function, keeping the journal physically present in Indian college libraries while making every article openly retrievable as a PDF.

Evaluators reading this profile — librarians deciding on holdings, supervisors advising doctoral candidates, appointment committees weighing a publication list — should apply the same verification steps the profile itself models. Confirm the journal by its ISSNs (2708-4515 and 2708-4523) and DOI prefix (10.22271/27084515), never by title alone, because near-identical Asian management titles exist. Read the masthead metric correctly: the RJIF figure displayed on articles comes from a private rating service and is not interchangeable with the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor or a Scopus CiteScore, neither of which is claimed for this journal here. Check any indexing requirement against the database's own current source list. Confirm fees and fast-track terms with the editorial office before submission rather than relying on third-party summaries. And judge individual articles on their methods and evidence, as with any broad-scope journal. Applied consistently, those steps let the journal be used for what it verifiably offers — a peer-reviewed, DOI-registered, regionally rooted outlet for management and commerce research, publishing since 2020 — without importing claims its own pages do not support.

How to Cite This Journal Correctly

Correct citation practice deserves a closing note of its own. A complete AJMC reference gives the authors, the article title, the journal name in full (Asian Journal of Management and Commerce), the year, the volume and issue in the journal's own format — for example 7(2) — the page range, and the DOI, which begins 10.22271/27084515 and encodes the volume, issue and article sequence. Omitting the DOI or abbreviating the journal name to a bare "Asian Journal of Management" risks sending readers to a different journal entirely, since that shorter name belongs to other publications. Bibliographic databases and reference managers occasionally carry this title with an incorrect country of publication; the country supported by the journal's own evidence is India, and records showing South Africa for ISSN 2708-4515 should be treated as data errors and corrected where the platform allows.

A note on preservation and access completes the record. The journal's archive is held on its own website as open PDF files organised by volume and issue, which makes its contents straightforwardly retrievable for readers and for text-mining or bibliometric work that respects the articles' copyright. Because the journal is young and web-native in its online edition, its long-term preservation rests on that site and on the copies held by libraries taking the print edition; authors with a particular interest in permanence may additionally deposit their accepted manuscripts in their institutional repositories where the journal's terms permit. Whatever route a reader takes, the stable handles for this journal remain the ones given throughout this profile: ISSN 2708-4515 in print, ISSN 2708-4523 online, and DOIs under 10.22271/27084515 for individual articles.