Editorial & Publishing Policies

Peer Review Process

Evaluating authors’ scholarly work for suitability of publication under close scrutiny of multiple experts is an important process of JSMCentral. Manuscripts undergoing peer review process help publisher to decide if the work must be accepted, rejected or re-revised. The process is followed without fail to closely evaluate, accuracy, significance & novelty of the publishing content. Peer Review Process here in JSMCentral follow the series of guidelines provided by COPE to closely evaluate each of the received manuscripts.

Pre-Peer Review

A paper before passing to initial peer-review moves to an appropriate journal handling editor, who determines whether it meets fundamental criteria for: plagiarism check via a paid third party tool, scope of the Journal & missing content in the Manuscript.

Peer Review

JSMCentral adapts a double blind peer review process for a smooth, unbiased evaluation of the scientific content. The process is usually completed within 7-21 days and very rarely delayed depending upon the availability of the editors and consulting peer review experts as they are also actively involved in their own research and other commencing commitments.

At JSMCentral the editorial board and reviewers evaluate closely on some of the main aspects such as originality, significance, writing/language/readability/understandability, methodology, hypothesis, relevance and references cited.

Once the manuscript is completed with the pre-peer review process it is then approved for the peer review process. This manuscript is assigned for the evaluation to the Editor who indeed recommends reviewers for assignment. Further the comments are revised closely and returned for the final recommendation. If the revisions are addressed and satisfy the international standards of scientific publishing, Editor takes a decision of acceptance, rejection or re-revisions.

Post Peer Review

Post Peer Review, the accepted manuscripts are moved to Proofread and web departments for final conversion of online/web versions. Authors are solely responsible to carefully proofread the published article and corrections are then returned to the journal handling members for error-free web-version.

Peer Reviews for Publications by Editors

As the Editors are closely involved in research relevant to the Journal, the manuscripts submitted to the Journal are evaluated by external Peer Review Experts. Multiple review comments upon addressing are accepted upon the recommendation by those external review experts. To avoid conflicts the final decisions on editorial board Manuscript acceptance will be made independently.

2. Signed Consents

For Animal Research:

Research involving animals must adhere to animal use protocol and must submit the approval of Use Committees/ethical committees.

Containing visually identifiable patients:

For the case reports, case series or clinical images containing visually identifiable patients must submit duly signed form by the patients (Patient Consent Form-download here).

For Human Subjects:

Appropriate study-specific approval by the ethics committee must be taken in studies involving human participants and the study must follow international ethics standards.

3. Conflict of Interests:

Authors, editors or reviewers must intimate to the Journal on competing interests to avoid further conflicts. Conflict of interests may include departmental conflicts, financial conflicts, non-financial conflicts, professional or personal conflicts.

4. Licensing:

Any publication by JSMCentral is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License – CC BY.

5. Partner with JSMCentral

Partnering with JSMCentral is a unique opportunity to reach a huge worldwide audience in a compelling way. We present your brand's message on our leading journals home page to impact better with our more than 2500 scholarly visitors each week. JSMCentral gives dedicated platform to our visitors to advertise career opportunities, seminars/sessions, workshops, new products, events or services.

Conference Media Partnerships: JSMCentral Media partnership gives you the accessibility to your delegates of pre-event and global branding opportunities, as well as giving you a target platform to drive your branding or subscriber acquisition campaigns by displaying your banners with us. We are obliged to share your conference headers to have mutual audiences visiting the websites impacting higher visibility to make your even successful. For more details on mutual media partnerships, you may contact info@jsmcentral.org   

6. Data availability

JSMCentral publishes scholarly articles, newsletters and data. This material is freely made available online when properly cited under CC-BY License. Any other information available on the website belongs to JSMCentral and could not be used for any purposes and could be a legal offense.

7. Scientific Misconduct

JSMCentral strongly raises a voice against scientific misconduct and malpractices. Scientific misconducts may include plagiarism, falsification, fabrication of the scientific data, improper credits to the co-authors, severe manipulation of experiments and methods, claim of misconduct against persons, etc. are taken charge by the Editorial Office in discussion with the Editorial Board.

8. News Alerts and Subscribers

Email newsletters help you to stay connected with latest published research in your field. Reading, sharing and contributing will enhance the science to advance faster. This will bring opportunities in building your network globally.

Building relationship and loyalty is our primary aim and we wish to stay connected with our regular news alerts.

9. Withdrawal Policy

JSMCentral strictly adhere to COPE guidelines for its quality publication. However, to save the time of authors as well as the JSMCentral Editorial Office, we would like to educate the authors about the withdrawal procedures of JSMCentral

Article Withdraw Procedures: