Peer Review Process & Publicaton Policy

Peer Review Process

Reviewer Guidelines

Publication Ethics

Plagiarism Policy

Open Access Policy

Retraction Policy

Processing Charges & Waiver Policy

Peer Review Process

Type of Peer Review: Double Blind Peer Review

All Submissions should conform to the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Medical Journals by ICMJE.

This journal follows double-blind peer review system. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. All manuscripts will be acknowledged upon presenting to the Journal office, provided that all stated requirements are met. All manuscript subjected to preliminary review by editorial team before sending it to the reviewers for review. The manuscript is reviewed initially by assigned editor and manuscripts, not able to satisfy editor or not in the range are immediately rejected and destroyed. 

Review process depends on receiving reviewers comments and revision of manuscript by authors must adhere to the comments provided by reviewers. Authors have the right to communicate to the editor if they do not wish their manuscript to be reviewed by a particular reviewer because of potential conflicts of interest. 

Approximately 55 percent of submitted manuscripts are accepted for publication. But acceptance of submission only depend on the quality of manuscripts not on the number of submissions.

Authors should expect to hear the results of the manuscript peer review within 5 weeks from the date of submission. Authors receive the reviewers’ comments and are often asked to revise the manuscript in line with the reviewers’ and/or editor’s suggestions within 4 weeks. If the revised article is accepted for publication, the editor then determines the journal issue in which it will appear. Accepted articles will usually appear in the next issue of the journal.