This Journal recommends that authors follow the ethics and guidelines drafted by the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE).

Guidelines for the Reviewers

The reviewers are selected at the request of the editorial team and need to respond within the specified number of days.

Review should be done keeping the following points in mind

• The scope of the journal
• It should qualify the author’s guidelines
• There should be no legal or ethical issues like plagiarism
• The content should be enriching, of good quality, contributory to the relevant field, and must have academic rigour as well as utility.
• The language used should be fluent and comprehensible

Based on these guidelines, the reviewer should give constructive feedback to improve the quality of the content submitted. Reviewers should be asked at the time they are asked to critique a manuscript if they have relationships or activities that could complicate their review.

Reviewers must disclose to editors any relationships or activities that could bias their opinions of the manuscript and should recuse themselves from reviewing specific manuscripts if the potential for bias exists. Reviewers must not use knowledge of the work they're reviewing before its publication to further their own interests.

The reviewer must suggest if the submission needs minor or substantial revision or whether it is unsuitable for publication. The final decision of publication, however, remains with the editorial board.

We encourage the reviewers to register with PUBLONS to get the credits for their reviews.

 

Guidelines for the Authors

When authors submit a manuscript of any type or format, they are responsible for disclosing all relationships and activities that might bias or be seen to bias their work. The COPE has provided various scenarios for authors to make decisions in misconduct, authorship and other relevant situations.

 

Guidelines for the Editors

The Journal follows and shares the Ethics Toolkit for the editorial office for the Editors/Editorial board.

The editor-in-chief will have full authority over the entire editorial content of their journal and the timing of publication of that content.

Editors who make final decisions about manuscripts should recuse themselves from editorial decisions if they have relationships or activities that pose potential conflicts related to articles under consideration. Other editorial staff members who participate in editorial decisions must provide editors with a current description of their relationships and activities (as they might relate to editorial judgments) and recuse themselves from any decisions in which an interest that poses a potential conflict exists.

Editorial staff must not use information gained through working with manuscripts for private gain. Editors should regularly publish their disclosure statements and those of their journal staff. Guest editors should follow these same procedures.

For Recommendations on ChatGPT and Chatbots in relation to Scholarly Manuscripts, Please visit the recent Guidelines and stay updated for further information.