The relationship between peer review justice and submission intention

Abstract

Abstract: It is of great importance for academic journals to appropriately handle manuscripts rejection in order to enhance the competitiveness and create academic reputation. Aimeing at the influence of peer review justice perception on submission intention, a survey on 286 young scholars who experienced manuscript rejection from a research-oriented university is examined. The results show that (1) among three types of peer review justice (procedural, interpersonal, and informational justice), only informational justice has a significantly positive impact on submission intention, which is fully mediated by overall justice; (2) publication fee plays a positive moderating role on the relationship between information justice and submission intention. However, the moderating effect of academic journal level is insignificant; (3) Overall justice is a distinct construct from procedural, informational, and interpersonal justice, and accounts for additional explanation effect on submission intention.

Key words: peer review justice, submission intention, overall justice

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Zhu Qiquan, Long Lirong. The relationship between peer review justice and submission intention[J]. Science Research Management, 2011, 32(8): 142-150.

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