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Use when calibrating expectations for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) editorial process — the developmental, Senior-Editor-led, double-blind review; how the seven-category routing works; what a JAIS decision letter means; and when to engage the journal's developmental culture. Sets expectations and reads decisions; it does not draft the response (jais-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (jais-submission).

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# Review Process (jais-review-process)

## When to trigger

- You are about to submit and want to understand how JAIS will handle the paper
- A decision letter arrived and you need to read it correctly before reacting
- You are unsure who owns the decision (Senior Editor vs. reviewers) and how to weight comments
- You want to understand JAIS's "developmental reviewing" culture and how to engage it
- You are deciding whether a major-revision invitation is worth the effort or signals a likely path to acceptance

## Fit is screened before quality

Like its Basket siblings, JAIS screens **fit** before it spends reviewer effort on quality — the Editor-in-Chief (or a deputy) assesses whether the paper belongs in JAIS and in the declared category before routing it for full review. This is why a technically excellent paper can be desk-rejected: not because the work is weak, but because the contribution is not a JAIS contribution, or the category is wrong. Practically, the fit screen rewards the upstream work in `jais-topic-selection` and `jais-contribution-framing` more than any amount of late polish. If you keep getting desk rejects, the problem is almost always fit or contribution, not execution.
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