IJRM 2016 - International Journal of Rural Management

The International Journal of Rural Management (IJRM) announces a call for papers and invites manuscripts for the forthcoming issues.
The overarching purpose of the Journal is to create a community of scholars and promote scholarship in the field of Rural Management. Anything rural is of interest; owever, the Journal has an avowed bias towards matters of policy, institutions, organizations and practices. Following are keys reasons for publishing in the journal:
- IJRM is the leading journal in the field of rural management at the global level
- IJRM is a peer reviewed journal and follows the practice of double-blind reviews for research articles
- The journal publishes conceptual, empirical and review papers in the form of research articles in addition to book reviews and field notes
- SAGE hosts the journal (http://irm.sagepub.com/)on its institutional website and markets the journal globally
- Readership of the journal is fairly widespread globally
Other Key Information:
- The Journal receives manuscripts only in electronic form.
- The research article should ideally be of about 8000 to 10,000 words. Book reviews and ‘Notes from the Field’ will not be bigger than 3000 words. An ideal article for ‘Notes from the Field’ should not include findings of any completed research study. It is aimed to be an account by the researcher/development practitioner of any important aspect of the field or community that excites him or her while being based in field. It has to be least technical in exposition and should attempt to bring out an important but mostly unreported aspect of field/fieldworker. A reflexive account of self and the field should also be acceptable for this section. Book Review could either be commissioned by the editors or accepted from willing contributors. The decision for BR and NF is not arrived through a process of external blind review but by the editors themselves.
- The soft copy of the contribution to the Journal should be in the MS-Word format and sent as an email attachment to ijrm-AT-irma.ac.in. The cover page should carry the title of the article, the author(s)' name(s), institutional affiliation(s), address(es) (postal, e-mail and web), and phone and fax numbers. The first author would be treated as the corresponding author; all correspondence, including those of the proof of the article would be sent to her/him.