Project Overview
Scrutiny International Multidisciplinary Free Research Journal is an open-access, quarterly, peer-reviewed academic journal publishing original research, reviews and case studies from scholars internationally. Mandy Technologies partnered with the Scrutiny Journals team, based in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, to build a website capable of handling article submissions, showcasing published issues, and presenting an international editorial board credibly to a global academic audience.
The result is a structured, credibility-first website built around article submission and author guidance, designed to meet the expectations of researchers deciding where to submit their work.
| Duration : | 2 days | Industry : | Academic Publishing / Research Journals |
| Platform : | Responsive Website (WordPress) | Team Size : | 2 Members |
| Client : | Scrutiny Journals | Deliverables: | Website Design & Development, SEO |
| Project Type: | Web Application | Site URL: | Scrutinyjournals |
The Brief: Where Scrutiny Journals Was Starting From
Academic journal websites are judged on infrastructure, not decoration: submission access, author guidelines, editorial board credibility, and a published issue archive are what researchers actually check before deciding where to submit their work. Scrutiny Journals needed a site built around those functions rather than a generic brochure layout.
Who Is Scrutiny Journals?
An open-access, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal with an international editorial board spanning Ethiopia and India, publishing research across fields as varied as environmental science, chemistry, IT strategy and social science.
A Genuinely International Editorial Board
Professors and department heads from Ethiopia and across India lend real, checkable academic credibility to the publication.
True Multidisciplinary Scope
Published research spans environmental pollution studies, chemistry, eco-tourism economics, cybersecurity and IT strategy within the same journal.
Built Around the Submission Process
Article submission and author guidelines are the core functional purpose of the site, not a buried subpage.
Goals:
A Website Academics Would Actually Trust With Their Research
Researchers evaluate a journal partly by its website. The site needed to signal legitimacy immediately and make the submission process straightforward for scholars unfamiliar with the journal.
The Challenge:
Presenting Academic Credibility Without a Marketing Budget’s Visual Toolkit
Academic publishing has different trust signals than commercial business: editorial board credentials, submission transparency, and publication rigour, not flashy visuals. Building a site that reads as credible to a professor evaluating where to submit, rather than a customer evaluating whether to buy, required a different design language than a typical service-business site.
OUR PROCESS
How We Got There
A condensed, four-phase process built to fit the three-week timeline without cutting corners on structure.
(01)
Discovery & Academic Standards Research
Understood what researchers actually check before submitting, editorial board, guidelines, past issues.
(02)
Content Architecture
Structured submission, author guidelines and editorial board as primary navigation rather than buried subpages.
(03)
Design & WordPress Build
Built a clean, credibility-first layout prioritising readability over decoration.
(04)
Launch & SEO
Implemented basic on-page SEO for global academic search visibility.
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