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Author Guidelines

These instructions contain three sections, namely: (research template, writing references and instructions for authors), and as below:

ARTICLE TITLE

Author Name

Department; College; University; Country.

Email:

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ABSTRACT

Purpose: The objective of this study was to identify the profile of academic research on blended learning in the world and propose a research agenda for the topic.

Theoretical framework: Recent literature has reported good results in both student performance and satisfaction in blended learning (Dziuban et al., 2015). However, there is still much to investigate and learn about BL because it is a recent development.

Design/methodology/approach: We analysed the profile of international publications on blended learning in management and business from 2001 to 2024. We identified when, who, where and what was published on the subject, singling out the authors and journals with the greatest impact based on the h-index and CiteScore (Scopus), as well as exploring the cooperation between countries.

Findings: The volume of research has been increasing over the past twenty years, although there are only a few authors, institutions and reference journals contributing to the topic’s consolidation and the countries conducting the most joint research in co-authoring networks account for the largest volume of publications, authors and impact journals.

Research, Practical & Social implications: We suggest a future research agenda and highlight the contributions made to executive and management education.

Originality/value: The results indicate that the number of publications is growing, and the management and business area is the one that contributes the most, with the countries that produce in co-authorship also providing the most publications.

Keywords: Blended learning; Management education; Executive education; Bibliometric analysis; Management and Business Education.

JEL Classification: M10, M12, M15, M19.

Authors’ individual contribution: Conceptualization — H.H.F.; Methodology — H.H.F.; Formal Analysis — H.H.F.; Investigation — H.H.F. and W.K.; Data Curation — H.H.F.; Writing —Original Draft — H.H.F.; Writing — Review & Editing — W.K., and H.H.F.; Visualization — H.H.F.; H.A.H. & G.A.K.A.; Supervision —W.K., and H.H.F.; Project Administration —H.H.F.

Declaration of conflicting interests: The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

General Note:

The appropriate length would be 150-250 words and It is preferable that the “Abstract” contains 1-2 in-text citations of the sources mentioned in the list of references that the research is based on or that the research contributes to.
The paper should be divided into clearly defined and numbered structural parts (1. Introduction, 2. Literature review and Hypothesis Development, 3. Research Methodology, 4. Results, 5. Discussion of Results, 6. Conclusion.); each subsection should be numerated as well. Please, adjust your titles of the sections.
“INTRODUCTION” section Condition that it includes the following elements: Background; Justification and problem statement. The text of the introduction should be continuous, without being divided into sub-titles. Also, add one more paragraph describing in detail the general structure of the paper. (e.g. The structure of this paper is as follows. Section 2 reviews the relevant literature. Section 3 analyses the methodology that has been used to conduct empirical research on...)
“LITERATURE REVIEW AND HYPOTHESIS DEVELOPMENT” section it is important to add a few more references of the recent years (2019-2024) in order to make the paper more citable.
“METHODOLOGY” section should also contain description of alternative methods that would be suitable for conducting the research.
The “RESULTS” section should also include discussions (at least 5-7 sentences). If more, please separate it as a structural part.
We recommend specifying more deeply why is important for future research (section “CONCLUSION”) and whether there are some limitations of the research. Also; in this section The text of the should be continuous, without being divided into sub-titles

Editorial Note

The length of the paper should amount to no more than 8,000 words.
Add at least 3 JEL classification codes for your research. You can use the link: https://www.aeaweb.org/jel/guide/jel.php
The (APA) method is relied upon for citing sources in the manuscript, and the use of (MENDELEY) software is required. The number of sources should not be less than 30 and should not exceed 60.
In order to facilitate the transparency of the authors’ contribution, since January 2024 Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences approves a decision about the “CRediT” taxonomy of contributor roles. Doing so, we ask our authors to use this taxonomy when providing an Author Contributions section for research papers. With reference to recent paper by Brand et al. (2015), we provide the taxonomy. Also, we provide an example of a recent Author Contributions section reorganized to use this format.

For Example:

Declaration of conflicting interests: The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

It is recommended including Acknowledgements that recognize the importance of contributions made by other researchers to the paper submitted (that have not been included in the paper authorship) or organizations (universities, grants numbers, etc.) which provided funds for conducting the research (if any).
Figure and Table: Authors are asked to take particular care when embedding figures. All figures should be legible (very good resolution) and should be interpretable even if a black-and-white version is reproduced.

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An amount of (150,000) Iraqi dinars for the research sent from inside Iraq. Publication fees are free for researchers from outside Iraq.

The author must incorporate revisions required by referees within a maximum period of one month; however, final copy of manuscript should be viewed and approved by author within a period of three days maximum.

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences
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Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

Please follow the instructions in the submission list to ensure that the research is not returned again. I have summarized the most important ones for you. Nevertheless, I prefer to see them. There are points that the researcher is supposed to abide by when uploading his research through the journal’s website, in addition to that they are shown in the new form (the journal’s template) Which you must use when preparing the research (sent in word format) and attached to the message inside (discussion window).
The bold font is only for the headings of the research title and the titles of the main and secondary paragraphs (sub) and is not used for the rest of the text. This applies to all paragraphs of the research. The names of the researchers, font size 11, their addresses, and their affiliation should also be mentioned in full (section also) in a font of size 9. The space between the lines is a single ( Single) and for all paragraphs of the research.
The main and secondary research sections are numbered and start from the introduction to the last section in it, and the sections must be set.
Abstract should occupy the first page and includes the following items: (background of the study, problem statement and research objectives and major findings). The abstract must be clear and complete and describe the problem, the goal or purpose of the research, the scientific method used, and the most important results obtained. The abstract must contain within (150 to 250) words.
The literature review is within the introduction (it can also branch out from the introduction) and must include recent citations up to the current year (2023) and 20% of them are indexed with the Scopus database.
Proofreading (translation checking) of English language for the article in an excelent manner, and the electronic (or Google) translator is not fully relied upon, but it must be presented to a translator or a specialist in the language
The type of font used is Times New Roman, and its size is 11 for all paragraphs and titles of the research, except for the title of the main research, which is 14.
The titles of the tables and their numbers are written at the top of the table, while the titles of figures or drawings and their numbers are below it. Reference must be made to those tables and figures in the text or paragraph that precedes it.
All terms must be clarified once before the term is mentioned individually in another part of the article.
The arrangement of the references within the context of the article and in the list of refernces is according to the (Harvard) style that you should not forget to add a (Discussion of Results) section in your article, which is before the conclusions.
A refereed quarterly scientific journal dealing with the types of research (theoretical, applied, and experimental) of researchers and others who are interested in the disciplines: (Management, Economics, Accounting, Statistics, Operations Research, Finance and banking).
Research is to be accepted in English under the condition of not previously published in any other journals. Research is subjected to scientific assessment. The researcher is also required to pay the fees of the assessment and publication, as well.
The research paper should be printed in single spaces (word format). Paper Pages should not exceed (25) totaly : the standard number is (15) pages with font type (Times New Roman).
Research submission to the journal is preferred in the fields of theoretical and applied studies, evaluation of techniques and cognitive concepts, comparative studies, case studies, building and developing theoretical frameworks, summaries of distinguished dissertations and theses, presenting and evaluating Arabic and foreign books, summarize and evaluate the work of conferences and scientific seminars inside and outside the country, comments and critical studies of researches published in journals, distinguished articles that published via websites that get along with the journal disciplines.
Keywords: Provide up to six keywords which encapsulate the principal topics of the paper.
Notification has to be added at the bottom of the first paper in case of any extraction belongs to thesis or dissertation. Title should be mentioned without researchers’ names.
References should include: 20% of references are published in the journals indexed by Scopus. -80% of references are recent and are within the last 10 years.
When the research is accepted, researcher should pay publication fees including hard copy of the journal volume in addition to the acceptance letter and documentation.
This article has not been previously published, and it has not been submitted to another scientific journal for consideration (or there is a clarification on this matter provided to the editorial board in the comments section)
The use of references is explained within the text and in the list of references in the approved form of the (template) that you must use.
As for how to write the refernce within the context or paragraph, for example when the reference is placed at the beginning of the sentence, it is as follows: Gupta and Kundu (2001) studied… This applies to all previous studies and the theoretical aspect of the research. It is preferred that the verb that follows it be in the (simple past) when delving into previous studies, and there is no need to mention the name of the study. For example, if there are several researchers: Boerdonk et al (2020) developed … As for when the reference is mentioned at the end of the paragraph, the order will be as follows: (Afify and Zayed, 2018)
The main sections are as follows: 1. Introduction 1.1 literature review 2. Material and Methods 2.1 Sub-section 3. Discussion of Results 4. Conclusion 5. Further Works 6. Acknowledgments (optional). 7. Author's declaration: References

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Articles submitted to the journal should not have been published before in their current or substantially similar form, or be under consideration for publication with another journal. Please see JEAS originality guidelines for details. Use this in conjunction with the points below about references, before submission i.e. always attribute clearly using either indented text or quote marks as well as making use of the preferred Harvard style of formatting. Authors submitting articles for publication warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will indemnify the publisher against any breach of such warranty. For ease of dissemination and to ensure proper policing of use, papers and contributions become the legal copyright of the publisher unless otherwise agreed.

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