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will be giving the feedback about the publication process. During the review process of the manuscript,
authors are responsible to confirm the revision as stated by the reviewers unless the concept of the
manuscript contradicts from the opinion of the authors and the theoretical constructions. In such cases, the
journal can proceed with the peer review again and this will be conducted with the mutual understanding
between the author(s) and the editorial board.
Moreover, author(s) are also responsible and be authentic to prevent plagiarism and if unforeseen
circumstances exists, such as copied materials, high percentage of similarities, conflicts of interest after the
publication, the manuscript will be retracted and the author(s) will take full responsibilities on this matter.
Under such conditions, the Journal will announce it retracted paper with the authors name, affiliations on its
announcement portal, which will also be shared through different means and methods or media to keep
away such circumstance from repeating. Importantly, under such cases, the journal will black list the
author(s) and will not entertain their manuscript for submission.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) is dedicated towards academic contributions and it enables and
enriches the authors to disseminate their knowledge through publication, in this regards the Journal of
Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) has an open access platform for downloading of published papers, and also
maintained free submission and free publication. While all these creates a platform for author(s) for
publication, it is important that author(s) must equally be fair with writing their paper and must reflects their
ownership of work with proper citation and referencing in the case of direct quoting (with page number),
citing, paraphrasing etcs.
Reviewers responsibilities
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences will forward the manuscript that has been approved after initial
screening and editorial reviews (but not accepted yet for publication unless decision received after peer
reviewed) to the reviewers (peer reviewers or blind peer review). All manuscript that has been accepted in
the first round (Initial screening and Editorial review) will only be forwarded for peer review. Generally,
reviewers are allocated a time frame of 4 weeks duration for sending their peer reviewed
comments/suggestions, however, sometimes additional times is allocated if incase the time frame for review
is not enough. The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) does not involve pay for review process and the
reviewer accept to review the manuscript upon the understanding that their contribution generates academic
values. The reviewer must take the responsibilities of fair judgement of review and must not remain biased
on their own opinion; however, reviewers must provide informative comments and constructive review. The
reviewers must not have any conflict of interest. The reviewers are provided a review framework to highlight
their comments, while optional comments are also welcomed. However, during the peer review, reviewers’
responsibilities must be focused on the concept of the paper that will provide scientific contribution and to
judge fairly that the contribution of the paper offers additional insights to the academic society. Although,
some reviewers are interested with language editing but it is not the sole duty that reviewers must conduct.
While the peer review process is considered as an important part of publication, the reviewers must take the
responsibilities of giving their feedback/comments/suggestions on the basis of scientific rigor, academic
contribution the paper offer to scientific community, maintain quality of the journal, avoid racism, personal
critics, prejudice and must maintain confidentiality by not sharing the paper to others. Review guidelines is
provided to the reviewers.
While reviewers’ contributions are an utmost important aspect, it is also advised to the reviewers to provide
few lines of notes to the authors and to the editor. The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) will highly
appreciate and value the reviewer’s work, time and effort and their knowledgeable comments and will list
their names in each issue published in the column “Acknowledgement to Reviewers”. However, sometimes,
the manuscript although approved in the initial screening and editorial review may be rejected after the peer
review, in such cases if the majority of reviewers decision are the same, the editorial board will consider this
decision, in some cases the peer review decisions are not consistent and in such case, the editorial board will
send the manuscript again for blind peer review to further seek for additional views while making the final
decision on the particular manuscript by the editor.
Roles, responsibilities and duties of Editor(s)
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) is committed towards maintaining the quality of the journal and
the publication of every manuscript that meets the scientific merit, academic rigor, originality, knowledgeable
work. Along with this, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) opens a platform to all authors from
different disciplines areas of research. In doing so, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS) follows
standardized guidelines and this is applied to all authors from various area of disciplines.
The roles of editor(s) are to confirm the quality of the journal by maintaining frequent communication with
the reviewers and interacting with the authors on the development of their manuscript once the submission
is made by the authors. Apart from the interactions and the communication with the reviewers and authors,
the editorial board and editorial team perform editorial task and become responsible of the confidentiality of
the manuscript and will not share the paper to others during the pre-publication and post-publication. Only
published papers are released for general readers.
The editor(s) maintains strict norms with publication of the issue and are serious with timely publication of its
Volume and Issue which is on the 2 nd day of May and November.
The editor(s) are responsible towards initial screening and editorial review of every manuscript that has been
submitted to the Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences (JIS). During this process, the duties that is carried by
the editor(s) are to check the quality of manuscript, technical and structuring of the manuscript, the concept
that relates to the context of the research work by checking the scientific rigor and merit. During this time,
the editor(s) performs the duty as an initial round reviewer and suggest the author(s) for further
improvement and developing their paper. Very few manuscript (almost none) passes the first initial screening
and editorial review process without requirement for authors revision before it is sent for peer review. The
Editor executives, Editorial team and the Editorial support perform their duties of initial screening and
editorial review during the first round of review or pre-peer review process.
The editor(s) performs their responsibilities and maintain regular follow up on the publication process, which
will be interacted with the authors about the progress on their paper while manuscripts are being “in review
process”. The editor maintains the responsibilities and their duties by timely publication for which, the editor
establishes the publication standard, read the manuscript (pre and post review), initiating and designing
manuscript paper layout, forwarding paper layout to authors and proceed to publication. The editor(s) also
perform the duty about general updates and are responsible to initiate timely updates, which are announced
on the journal announcement page and is shared to all through various means, methods and media. The
editor takes the responsibility of announcement of call for submission of manuscript from every interested
author(s) from various disciplines
Other duties that editors perform and take responsibilities are with improvement of paper by making it
readable and understandable to all readers. In some cases, the editor can/may suggest the authors to
language edit if the author is not a native English-speaking individual.
With every issue, editorial column is published to briefly address the content of publication that has
published in its current issue. For the development of journal, the editor(s) initiates the strategic option to
build academic partners for promotional activities, development and growth.
Publication ethics and malpractices
The paper submitted to the journal must meet the scientific and publication standard. The contribution of
author and co-authors must be significantly reflected in the paper. Any conflict of interest between the
author and co-authors can lead the paper towards withdrawal category. Moreover, it is the responsibilities of
the author and the co-authors to maintain the publication ethic and norms. The ethical consideration is a
moral practice that all author and co-author(s) are obliged to follow starting from writing of
manuscript/articles, submission, abiding peer review, revising, pre-publication and to the post-publication of
their manuscript.
The manuscript that is published with the JIS although copyright is with the author(s), the same paper must
not be submitted or published with the other journal. Importantly, while maintaining the ethical
consideration and practices, authors and co-author(s) must not submit their paper that is being considered
for publication elsewhere at another academic journal platform both online and print. This is considered as
an unethical behaviour and in doing so, the journal will not consider the paper from these author(s) and Co-
authors in future in any circumstance and will be in a category of blacklisted upon malpractice and practicing
unethical and reflecting the dysfunctional behaviour.