Journal of Garmian University (JGU)

The Journal of Garmian University (JGU) is a peer-review, multi-disciplinary and multi-lingual journal, therefore, the aim of publishing the articles in this journal is to distribute the knowledge in the field of the natural sciences, languages, arts and humanity. The scope of the journal in each discipline is determined by the editorial staff and the correspondent author should ask the editorial staff for the capability of the journal in publishing the manuscript. Furthermore, the journal publishes manuscripts in three languages including English, Kurdish and Arabic. The natural science manuscripts must be written in proper English language.

The manuscripts are evaluated according to the following standards:

Novelty of the data results or major contribution of the author (s) to the related scientific field.

Academic and coherent writing of all sections including titles, keywords, abstracts, introductions, materials, methods, results, discussions, conclusions, recommendations and references.

Anonymously peer-reviewing by at least two referees (reviewers).

Ethical approval of the research study.

Announcement of the lack of the authors’ conflicts in the research.

Declaration of the funding sources.

License policy

The JGU is an open access online journal that everyone can view the information supplied in the articles. The authors have the right to limit their information provided it does not impact on the ethics and whole story of the article. The permitted information can be cited for scientific reasons except otherwise mentioned, for example some copy rights materials, patents or intellectual properties are restricted to be distributed.

Any re-uses of the accepted articles published in the archive of JGU have to be for academic research or informational purpose only and any exploitation for either commercial or whole-sale purposes are prohibited.

Deposition of any articles in personal websites or any institutional repositories must include the URL or DOI of the articles links available in the JGU website.

Review policy of JGU

JGU is a peer-review journal issued by the University of Garmian. The review process is performed by emailing the manuscripts and forms provided for reviewers. The manuscript should be prepared according the template provided by JGU.

Following author’s submission, the manuscript will be received by the editorial staff who directs the manuscript to an editor covering the subject and test it for any plagiarism. Then, its proper academic style of writing is also checked in terms of copy rights, story, aims, coherency and grammars. In this step, the submitted manuscript might be declined without being passed for reviewing. Therefore, JGU recommends the authors to pass their manuscripts to the English language experts before submissions.

The successful manuscript is anonymously sent to at least two referees (reviewers) who are specialists in the field. Both referees independently review the manuscript exploring the originality or novelty of the data presented or significant contributions of the author (s) to the related scientific field. All referees should agree with journal’s policy in terms of conditions and protecting the results of the manuscript.

The aim of the peer-review is to support the manuscripts via constructive critics and hence improving the quality of the research prior to publishing. In each step, the editor discusses the manuscript with the editorial staffs for decisions. That is either to reject or accept the manuscript depends on the referee’s comments or suggestions concerning corrections of any parts of the manuscript by the author (s). The reviewers have the right to ask the author (s) for any explanations of the manuscript via the editor, such as writing styles, provisions of the raw data results, and any corrections might be made to the manuscript. In case of any conflicts between the reviewer at judging the manuscript, a third referee will be determined to arbitrate in the dispute.

The reviewer’s comments and suggestions are returned back to the author (s) via the editor. The author (s) should correct the suggested points during a requested time decided by the editor. The resubmitted manuscripts will be accepted based on reviewers’ confirmation concerning the corrections made by the authors. Consequently, the manuscript is published in press as an accepted manuscript for a month before permanently archived in latest issue of the journal. The correspondent author has the right to write a letter to the editor in case of any misjudgment and delay in reviewing.

Archiving policy

All accepted manuscripts are temporarily published in press prior to permeant publications. The accepted articles are publically published online and achieved on the JGU forever. However, in cases of retractions, the retracted articles will be permanently removed from the journal online services, but still stored in the journal office as a document of retraction.