Editorial Introduction

            This issue of the Independent Journal of Management & production (IJM&P) features a selection of articles submitted and revised until April 2019. Observe the works are the fruit of research and publications of undergraduate, postgraduate and entrepreneurs.

            It is important to mention that all the works are showed without any kind of payment. All of them are published free from payments or taxes.

            The publication also counts on the work of researchers from various parts of the world, which have undergone a process of peer review.

            As chief editor of IJM&P, I am indebted to all members of the editorial board and reviewers, which contributed to achieve a very decent job during the evaluation and revision. Moreover, that they have contributed to the Journal in recognition of the international scientific community.

            In addition, with all the authors, who trusted the results of their research and publications to the scrutiny of editors and reviewers who are part of our Journal.

            On July 20, 2018, the journal was notified via E-mail of its indexing and abstracted in: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Clarivate Analytics - Web of Science - Thompson Reuters. With the availability of journal data on August 20, 2018.

            The Table 1 presents how our collaborators, by their categories of study and sex are.

Table 1: Distribution of users by degree

 

Dr.

Ph.D.

MSc.

Dr./Ph.D. Student

MSc. Student

Specia-

list

Profes-sors

Stu-dents

Others

Total

Male

1,082

268

248

60

34

28

64

112

1,859

Female

390

116

126

19

13

3

47

29

732

            From the data provided in Table 1 on the distribution users by titration, Figure 1 shows the percentage of each titration.

Figure 1: Distribution chart for degree

            In the period from January, 01 to May, 31 2019, the journal was accessed by approximately 106,990 users, of approximately 3,773 cities and 184 countries, in the Figure 2 is presented the map mundi, in which can be observed the countries of where was originating the access (GOOGLE, 2019).

Figure 2: Countries that have accessed the journal

            The Table 2 shows the preview data and journal access, since its creation in 2010.

Table 2: views by volume/number

Year

Country

Cities

Access

Users

Viewers

2010

25

75

340

181

5,474

2011

75

343

1,510

1,024

12,942

2012

83

444

2,187

1,406

15,499

2013

118

1,208

11,946

6,006

71,264

2014

146

1,978

17,440

10,503

68,340

2015

147

2,307

23,017

14,460

96,735

2016

162

2,911

26,654

17,847

112,928

2017

184

4,078

37,171

27,129

109,535

2018

190

5,220

57,157

44,400

187,729

2019

193

4,750

55,825

42,873

158,101

            In Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 is shown a graph of the amount of hits that the journal received between January 1, 2014 and Mach 31, 2019; these data are based on information provided by the Google analytics.

Figure 3: amount of hits between 2014 and 2019

            The Figure 4 shows the comparison of the number of cities, around the world, that have accessed the journal.

Figure 4: Amount of cities between 2014 and 2019

            The Figure 5 shows the averages of views on the journal in the period between the years of 2014 and 2016.

Figure 5: Amount of average between 2014 and 2019

            The Figure 6 shows the comparison of the number of countries, around the world, that have accessed the journal.

Figure 6: Amount of countries between 2014 and 2019

The Figure 7 shows the comparison of the number of users, around the world, that have accessed the journal.  

Figure 7: Amount of users between 2014 and 2019

            The Figure 8 shows the comparison of the number of viewers, around the world, that have accessed the journal.

Figure 8: Amount of Viewers between 2013 and 2019

            Figure 9 shows the overall evolution accumulated in the 12 months, as well as the visualizations between the years of 2013 and 2018 and that can be compared with Figure 8.

Figure 9: Global evolution of views between 2013 and 2019

            Figure 10 shows the evolutionary chart of resolutions address the articles registered in Crossref since 2014, which is based on monthly report. This graph can be seen the evolution of the journal has achieved.

Figure 10: Resolution Report for prefix 10.14807 from between 2014 and 2019

            Figure 11 shows the graph of daily views averages during the 12 months between 2014 and 2019, which allows to observe the constant growth of the Journal.

Figure 11: Average day views

            We appreciate the intense participation of all colleagues, which has made our journal become a place of wide dissemination of knowledge.

            The following content will be presented with the titles, authors and the pages of all of the articles published in this edition issue.

EDITORIAL VOLUME 10, ISSUE 5 (1704-1712)

Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.834

 

AN ALGORITHM TO DETERMINING THE GEAR EFFICIENCY TO A SIMPLE PLANETARY TRAIN (1392-1404)

Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.392

 

PREVENTIVE ANTICRISIS STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE (1405-1420)

Hanna Tarasova, Sergey Zaharov, Mykhaylo Vereskun, Valeriia Kolosok

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.890

 

PROJECT PORTFOLIO PRIORITIZATION STRATEGY TO EXTEND THE SERVICE LIFE OF OFFSHORE PLATFORMS – A PROMÉTHÉE V APPROACH (1421-1445)

Rodrigo Toneto de Melo, Luiz Flavio Autran Monteiro Gomes, Fernando Filardi

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.849

 

STRUCTURAL-TOPOLOGICAL SYNTHESIS OF SPACE MECHANISMS WITH RODS AND WHEELS (1446-1475)

Relly Victoria Virgil Petrescu, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.902

 

THE SOCIAL DIMENSION AND INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABILITY IN AGRIFOOD SUPPLY CHAINS (1476-1498)

Renato Rocha Dias Santos, Patricia Guarnieri, Otavio Moreira do Carmo Jr., Silvia Araújo dos Reis, José Márcio Carvalho, Carlos Rosano Peña

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.894

 

SOFTWARE QUALITY EVALUATION: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES (1499-1515)

Tulio Cremonini Entringer, Ailton da Silva Ferreira

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.911

 

JOINT LOT SIZING AND SCHEDULING OF A MULTI-PRODUCT MULTI-PERIOD SUPPLY CHAIN (1516-1535)

Ahmed Othman El-meehy, Amin K. El-Kharbotly, Mohammed M. El-Beheiry

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.959

 

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM BASED IN AHP METHOD TO SELECTION VENDORS OF CLINICAL LABORATORYS INPUTS (1536-1555)

André Andrade Longaray, Anderson Picua Gonçalves, Vilmar Gonçalves Tondolo, Rosana Tondolo, Catia Maria dos Santos Machado

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.896

 

ROAD TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE: A LONGITUDINAL CASE STUDY (2009-2017) (1556-1571)

Rodrigo Ribeiro Oliveira, Renata Schirrmeister, Fernando Nascimento Zatta, Rodrigo Randow Freitas, Wellington Gonçalves

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.926

 

SYSTEMS SUCCESS MEASUREMENT: INSTRUMENT & FRAMEWORK A NEW PERSPECTIVE (1572-1606)

Ibrahim Eskandar Ibrahim Fadhel, Syed Zulkarnain Bin Syed Idrus, Mohd Syukri Yeoh Abdullah, Amani Ali Elmetwaly Ali Ibrahim, Mazni Binti Omar

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.872

 

ASSESSMENT OF BONDS UTILISATION IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (1607-1625)

Usman Muhammed, Emmanuel Chididebere Eze, John Abel Tsado, Blessing Okokun

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.925

 

ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT THROUGH MANAGED CHAOS (1626-1644)

Nataliia Kasianova, Elena Tarasova, Nataliia Kravchuk

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.900

 

PRESENT AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL MANAGEMENT IN ROMANIAN UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT (1645-1661)

Radu Bucea Manea Tonis, Cezar Braicu

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.924

 

THE ROLE OF MARKETING MIX AND SERVICE QUALITY ON TOURIST SATISFACTION AND LOYALTY AT SAMOSIR (1662-1678)

Muhammad Elfi Azhar, Jufrizen Jufrizen, Muhammad Andi Prayogi, Maya Sari

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.937

                                                                                           

A FUZZY EPQ MODEL FOR NON-INSTANTANEOUS DETERIORATING ITEMS WHERE PRODUCTION DEPENDS ON DEMAND WHICH IS PROPORTIONAL TO POPULATION, SELLING PRICE AS WELL AS ADVERTISEMENT (1679-1703)

Abhishek Kanti Biswas, Sahidul Islam

DOI: dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v10i5.897

 

 

October 1, 2019

 

 

Prof. Dr. Paulo Cesar Chagas Rodrigues

Chief Editor