Peer Review Process/ Policy

All submitted manuscripts are subjected to a double-blinded peer review process. Also, it goes through necessary plagiarism check. After ensuring the completeness of the article, it is forwarded to undisclosed reviewers for peer review and detailed responses. Authors mostly get the decision on their manuscript within 20 weeks.

Original research in humans and animals require a letter of approval from the Institutional Ethics Committee or a letter stating that the Institutional Review Board had waived the need for informed consent. For prospective interventional trials, registration with trial registries such as Clinicaltrials.gov is highly desirable.

All research shall be conducted as per the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects. (modified in 1983 - https://www.wma.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/DoH-Oct2013-JAMA.pdf). The research must adhere to the core principles of research ethics:

• informed consent,
• voluntary participation,
• privacy and confidentiality,
• justice, and beneficence,
• right to review.

Digital Preservation / Archiving

The Journal provides for long-term digital preservation through CLOCKSS, LOCKSS, and PKP.

Copyright

The Journal hold the copyright of all the editorial content published in this journal from now. It is mandatory for authors to submit the manuscript along with Commercial Rights Transfer Form.

Licensing

All open access articles published in The Saint's International Dental Journal are distributed under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license (Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial Share-alike 4.0 International License), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited. Under Creative Commons, authors retain copyright in their articles.

Open Access Policy

Open access refers to the practice of making peer-reviewed scholarly research and literature freely available online to anyone interested in reading it without any restriction. The Open access publications are freely and permanently available online to anyone with internet access. Unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium (which is non-commercial) is permitted, provided the author/editor is properly attributed. All the periodicals are deposited immediately upon publication, without any technical, financial, and gender limitations, in an agreed format on the journal website as well as archiving and indexing databases as applicable to a journal. All articles are self-archiving, with worldwide access through DOI (Digital Object Identifier) - standardized by the International Organization for Standardization, provided for individual article published.

Restricted access to scientific research and advancements through subscription pay wall hinders communication within the scientific community. Moreover, restricted access can also hinder the education and dissemination of scientific knowledge to the aspiring younger generations who are keen to pursue a career in science. Increased productivity and development of science can only be achieved by diffusing knowledge and providing the facilities for creating permanent repositories such as Open Access.

The use of a Creative Commons 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) enables user/reader/peer to use the content with clear permission in a way that it can be reused and redistributed as long as the article source is appropriately given credit for non-commercial purposes.

Self-Archiving Policy

9VOM permits authors to self-archive versions of their work on their own webpages, on institutional webpages, and in other repositories with full link to the article published page after publication.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

This Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement is based on the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors as per Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011, ICMJE & WAME.

Advertisement Policy

While advertisements may be crucial to this journal to be able to keep all content free for everyone, ethical considerations are in place to ensure the integrity of the journal and its content:

• "Pop-up" and "banner" ads appear on a random, rotating basis. The advertiser has no control or input over the pages where their ads appear.
• The Editorial Board has full and final approval over the content of all advertisements.
• Advertisers will never be shown on any manuscripts or other content before publication.

Editorial independence will be maintained and advertisements shall be treated separately.

Advertisements will not be accepted if they appear to be indecent or offensive in either text or artwork, or if they relate to content of a personal, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, or religious nature.

Journal will not accept advertising for products or services known to be harmful to health (e.g. tobacco and alcohol products).

Ahead of Print Policy

Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. 9VOM has a policy that changes will not be made after publishing an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

  

Plagiarism Policy

Articles will be checked for plagiarism. Only Articles below 10% Similarity Score shall be accepted for Publication. It is advised to authors to run through their own plag check to ensure high possibility of acceptance after review.

The authors must ensure their plagiarism free manuscript. In case of any plagiarism allegation in any form in a published article, the investigation will follow under ICMJE and COPE Guidelines. If proven, the article shall be retracted and further necessary actions may be taken.