About the Journal

Aims and Scope

 
The Global Journal of Mathematical Analysis (GJMA) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to publishing original research and scholarly review articles in mathematical analysis and closely related fields.
 
The journal welcomes manuscripts that make a clear and substantive contribution to mathematical analysis, including but not limited to:
 
- Real analysis
- Complex analysis
- Functional analysis
- Operator theory
- Fixed point theory
- Approximation theory
- Integral equations
- Ordinary differential equations
- Partial differential equations
- Difference equations
- Dynamical systems
- Fractional calculus with substantial analytical content
- Variational analysis
- Optimization connected to mathematical analysis
- Numerical analysis with rigorous mathematical validation
- Mathematical modelling where the analytical contribution is central
- Applications of mathematical analysis in science, engineering, economics, biology, or computation
 
Manuscripts are considered within scope only when mathematical analysis forms a substantial part of the research question, method, result, or contribution. A manuscript is not considered suitable merely because it contains equations, numerical examples, simulations, or applications of standard methods. The work must provide a meaningful mathematical, analytical, theoretical, methodological, or rigorously validated numerical contribution.
 
GJMA publishes:
 
- Original research articles
- Review and survey articles
- Short communications
- Technical notes
 
Review and survey articles must provide a critical, accurate, and well-organized synthesis of the literature. They should identify developments, limitations, open problems, or future research directions, and should not be limited to a descriptive compilation of known results.

 

 

Peer Review Process

 

The Global Journal of Mathematical Analysis (GJMA) applies a rigorous, fair, and transparent peer review process to maintain high standards of academic integrity, mathematical quality, and editorial independence.

1. Initial Manuscript Screening

All submitted manuscripts undergo initial screening by the editorial office or assigned editor. The screening evaluates:

  • Relevance to the journal’s aims and scope
  • Originality and scholarly contribution
  • Mathematical correctness and clarity
  • Completeness of manuscript files and metadata
  • Quality of the English title, abstract, keywords, figures, tables, equations, and references
  • Compliance with publication ethics
  • Similarity and plagiarism screening

Manuscripts that are clearly outside the journal’s scope, incomplete, ethically problematic, insufficiently original, mathematically weak, or not readable by an international scholarly audience may be rejected before external peer review.

2. Assignment to Reviewers

Manuscripts that pass initial screening are assigned to external reviewers with expertise in mathematical analysis or a closely related field.

Reviewers are selected based on subject expertise, research experience, availability, and absence of conflicts of interest.

GJMA normally seeks reports from at least two independent reviewers. Additional reviewers may be invited when specialized expertise is required or when reviewer opinions differ substantially.

The journal uses a single-blind peer review process. Reviewers know the identity of the authors, but authors do not know the identity of the reviewers.

3. Review Timeline

Reviewers are normally asked to submit their reports within 4 to 8 weeks. Extensions may be granted when necessary, but timely review is encouraged to support an efficient editorial process.

4. Reviewer Evaluation Criteria

Reviewers are asked to evaluate manuscripts according to scholarly, ethical, and mathematical standards, including:

  • Relevance to the aims and scope of GJMA
  • Originality and significance of the contribution
  • Clarity of the research problem
  • Correctness of definitions, assumptions, notation, and mathematical formulation
  • Validity of theorems, lemmas, propositions, corollaries, and proofs
  • Logical consistency and mathematical rigor
  • Validity of convergence, stability, error, existence, uniqueness, or approximation claims where applicable
  • Reliability of numerical, computational, or graphical results where applicable
  • Consistency between equations, examples, tables, figures, results, and conclusions
  • Quality, relevance, and currency of cited literature
  • Clarity of the abstract, manuscript structure, and English presentation
  • Compliance with publication ethics, including originality, proper citation, and disclosure of conflicts of interest

Reviewers submit detailed comments and a recommendation to the editor. Reviewer recommendations may include:

  • Accept
  • Minor revision
  • Major revision
  • Reject and resubmit
  • Reject

5. Editorial Decision

The final editorial decision is made by the Editor-in-Chief or handling editor. The decision is based on reviewer reports, editorial assessment, journal scope, publication ethics, and the mathematical quality of the manuscript.

Possible editorial decisions include:

  • Accept: The manuscript is accepted for publication.
  • Minor revision: The manuscript requires limited corrections before it can be considered for acceptance.
  • Major revision: The manuscript requires substantial revision and may be sent for further review.
  • Reject and resubmit: The manuscript is not acceptable in its current form but may be considered as a new submission after major redevelopment.
  • Reject: The manuscript is not suitable for publication in GJMA.

If reviewers recommend rejection, the handling editor carefully considers the reviewers’ concerns and may reject the manuscript when the scientific, ethical, mathematical, or scope-related concerns are substantive and unresolved. Editorial decisions are not made automatically by reviewer vote alone.

Acceptance is not guaranteed after revision. Revised manuscripts may be reassessed by the editor or returned to reviewers when major issues remain.

6. Revision Process

For manuscripts requiring revision, authors receive reviewer and editorial comments and are expected to:

  • Address all comments carefully and completely
  • Submit a revised manuscript
  • Provide a detailed response letter explaining how each comment was addressed
  • Clearly identify changes made to the manuscript

Revised manuscripts should normally be submitted within 2 to 4 weeks for minor revisions and 4 to 8 weeks for major revisions. Extensions may be granted upon reasonable request.

7. Final Acceptance and Publication

A manuscript may be accepted only when the editor is satisfied that it meets the journal’s scholarly, mathematical, ethical, and presentation standards.

Accepted manuscripts undergo final checks for formatting, metadata, references, DOI information, language quality, equations, figures, tables, and compliance with journal guidelines before publication.

8. Transparency and Ethical Standards

GJMA follows internationally recognized publication ethics principles, including guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Reviewers must treat manuscripts as confidential documents and must disclose any potential conflicts of interest. Reviewers should decline a review invitation if they are unable to provide an objective and independent assessment.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their submitted work is original, properly cited, ethically compliant, and not under consideration elsewhere. Where applicable, authors must disclose funding, conflicts of interest, data or code availability, and any relevant use of AI-assisted tools.

Editors are responsible for fair, independent, and timely editorial decisions. Editorial decisions must be based on scholarly merit, mathematical validity, journal relevance, and publication ethics.

9. Reviewer Recognition and Feedback

GJMA values the contribution of reviewers to the quality and integrity of scholarly publishing. The journal may recognize reviewer contributions through certificates of appreciation, acknowledgement on the journal website, or invitations to contribute further to the journal’s editorial and review activities.

Reviewers are encouraged to provide constructive, evidence-based comments that help authors improve their manuscripts, even when the recommendation is rejection.

10. Continuous Improvement

The journal regularly reviews its peer review policies and editorial procedures to maintain alignment with international publishing standards and best practices. Feedback from reviewers, authors, and editors may be used to improve the quality, transparency, and efficiency of the peer review process.


 

Open Access Policy:

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving:

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Copyright:

This is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Open-access authors retain the copyrights of their papers, and all open-access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, and so forth in this publication, even if not specifically identified, does not imply that the relevant laws and regulations do not protect these names.

While the advice and information in this journal are believed to be true and accurate on the date of its going to press, neither the authors, the editors, nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.

 

Plagiarism Policy:

 

Plagiarism is a serious violation of academic integrity and publishing ethics. It involves the unauthorized use or close imitation of ideas, text, data, or other creative work (e.g., tables, figures, and graphs) without proper acknowledgment or citation, and presenting it as original research. We are committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and take all cases of plagiarism very seriously.


Definition of Plagiarism

We define plagiarism as the reproduction of another work, in whole or in part, with at least 15% similarity (excluding properly cited references and commonly used phrases) and without proper citation or acknowledgment. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Direct Plagiarism: Copying text verbatim without proper citation.
  • Self-Plagiarism: Republishing one’s own previously published work (in part or whole) without appropriate disclosure or citation.
  • Paraphrasing Plagiarism: Rephrasing another person’s ideas or work without proper attribution.
  • Mosaic Plagiarism: Combining phrases, ideas, or data from multiple sources without proper acknowledgment.
  • Data Fabrication or Manipulation: Using falsified or manipulated data as original research.

Plagiarism Detection

All submitted manuscripts are screened for plagiarism using iThenticate, a leading plagiarism detection software, as part of the editorial process. Manuscripts with a similarity index exceeding 15% (excluding references and common phrases) will be flagged for further review by the editorial team.

  • Initial Screening: All manuscripts undergo plagiarism screening before being sent for peer review. If significant plagiarism is detected, the manuscript will be rejected immediately.
  • Post-Publication Screening: If plagiarism is identified after publication, appropriate actions will be taken as outlined below.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use iThenticate or similar tools to check their manuscripts for originality prior to submission.


Consequences of Plagiarism

If evidence of plagiarism is found at any stage (before submission, during peer review, or after publication), the following actions will be taken depending on the severity of the case:

  1. Minor Overlap (e.g., 15–25%):

    • Authors will be notified, and the manuscript will be returned for revision to address the overlap and ensure proper citation.
  2. Moderate Plagiarism (e.g., 25–40%):

    • The manuscript will be rejected outright.
    • Authors may be barred from submitting to the journal for a defined period (e.g., 1–2 years).
  3. Severe Plagiarism (e.g., over 40%):

    • The manuscript will be rejected immediately.
    • If the manuscript has already been published, it will be retracted, and a retraction notice will be issued on the journal’s website and in the next available issue.
    • The authors’ affiliated institutions and/or funding agencies may be notified of the violation.
    • Authors found guilty of severe plagiarism may be permanently banned from submitting to the journal.

Opportunity for Author Defense

In cases where plagiarism is detected, the corresponding author will be given an opportunity to respond and provide an explanation. If the editorial team finds the response unsatisfactory, the appropriate actions outlined above will be enforced.


Commitment to Ethical Publishing

The journal is a member of the CrossCheck initiative, a multi-publisher program to detect and prevent plagiarism. We use iThenticate software to screen all submitted and published content for originality. For more information about CrossCheck, visit https://www.crossref.org/crosscheck.html.


Guidance for Authors

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their work is original and properly cited. To assist authors in preparing plagiarism-free manuscripts, we recommend the following:

  • Use plagiarism detection tools such as iThenticate to check for textual overlap before submission.
  • Properly attribute all sources, including text, ideas, data, tables, and figures.
  • Avoid submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals simultaneously (duplicate submission).
  • Disclose if any part of the manuscript has been previously published (e.g., as a conference paper or preprint) and provide proper citation.

By submitting to the journal, authors agree to adhere to these ethical standards.


Post-Publication Actions

If plagiarism is discovered after publication, the following actions will be taken:

  • A retraction notice will be issued when warranted.
  • The retraction notice will clearly state the reason for retraction and will be linked to the original article.
  • The article record will remain available with a clear retraction notice and updated metadata, in accordance with scholarly publishing standards.