Focus and Scope

The Golden Ratio of Mapping Idea and Literature Format (GRMILF) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access multidisciplinary journal that publishes rigorous scholarly research across diverse academic fields. The journal provides a platform for original empirical research and literature-based studies that contribute to the development, mapping, synthesis, integration, and advancement of knowledge.

GRMILF aims to facilitate the dissemination of significant scholarly findings while promoting the development of new ideas, theoretical perspectives, empirical evidence, conceptual frameworks, and research directions. The journal welcomes research that addresses important theoretical, methodological, managerial, social, technological, environmental, economic, educational, policy, and other contemporary issues from multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives.

The journal particularly encourages research that contributes to a clearer understanding of how knowledge develops within and across disciplines, including studies that identify emerging themes, research trends, conceptual relationships, knowledge gaps, and opportunities for future research.

Scope of Research

GRMILF welcomes original research articles employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches. Quantitative studies may employ, but are not limited to, survey research, statistical modelling, structural equation modelling, experimental or quasi-experimental approaches, panel or secondary-data analysis, and other appropriate empirical methods. Qualitative and mixed-methods studies are also welcomed when they provide a clear methodological contribution and meaningful scholarly insight.

The journal also welcomes literature-based and knowledge-mapping studies, including, but not limited to:

  • systematic literature reviews and systematic reviews;

  • bibliometric analysis and science mapping;

  • scoping reviews and evidence mapping;

  • integrative and narrative reviews with a clear methodological framework;

  • meta-analysis and meta-synthesis;

  • thematic and content analysis of scholarly literature;

  • citation, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-word analysis;

  • conceptual and theoretical synthesis;

  • theory development and theory integration based on existing literature;

  • research trend, emerging-topic, and knowledge-structure analysis;

  • identification of research gaps, future research directions, and state-of-the-art developments; and

  • multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary studies that integrate perspectives, theories, methods, or evidence from different fields of scholarship.

Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Focus

GRMILF adopts a broad multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary scope. The journal does not restrict submissions to a single academic discipline, provided that the manuscript demonstrates a clear research purpose, appropriate methodological rigor, and a meaningful contribution to knowledge.

The journal welcomes research from fields including, but not limited to, business and management, marketing, finance, accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, human resource management, organizational studies, psychology, education, information systems, technology, social sciences, public policy, environmental studies, engineering, health-related studies, and other emerging fields of academic inquiry.

Research that connects theories, methods, evidence, or perspectives across disciplinary boundaries is particularly encouraged when such integration generates meaningful theoretical, empirical, methodological, or practical insights.

Contribution to Knowledge

GRMILF seeks manuscripts that provide a substantive contribution rather than merely describing existing phenomena or reproducing established findings. Depending on the nature of the study, contributions may include:

  1. Empirical contributions — providing new evidence, testing relationships among variables, examining emerging phenomena, or extending existing empirical knowledge.

  2. Theoretical contributions — developing, extending, integrating, or challenging existing theories and theoretical perspectives.

  3. Methodological contributions — applying, extending, or demonstrating rigorous methodological approaches that advance research within a particular field.

  4. Literature and knowledge-mapping contributions — identifying research trends, intellectual structures, emerging themes, influential research streams, knowledge clusters, and relationships within a body of literature.

  5. Conceptual contributions — developing conceptual frameworks, propositions, models, or integrative perspectives based on empirical evidence and/or systematic synthesis of existing knowledge.

  6. Research agenda contributions — identifying well-supported research gaps, unresolved questions, emerging issues, and directions for future scholarly investigation.

  7. Practical and societal contributions — generating implications for managerial practice, organizations, policy, education, technology, communities, or other relevant stakeholders where appropriate.

GRMILF therefore welcomes both original empirical research and rigorous literature-based scholarship, provided that submissions demonstrate methodological transparency, theoretical or conceptual grounding, scholarly significance, and a clear contribution to the advancement of knowledge.

The journal encourages contributions that are relevant to an international scholarly audience and that advance understanding across disciplines, research communities, geographical contexts, and emerging areas of inquiry.