Journal Policies and Ethics

JOURNAL POLICIES

Journal of Natural Remedies recommends that authors follow the Recommendations by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

I Open Access Policy

• All the articles published in Journal of Natural Remedies is available freely and can be accessed online immediately after publication in an easily readable format, without any subscription or registration barrier. Unrestricted Access and Unrestricted Reuse.
• All the published articles are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Articles can be shared and adapted, provided the attribution for the work is given.

II Submission Policy

There is no Charge/Fee for submitting manuscripts to Journal of Natural Remedies. It is completely FREE.

III Article Processing Charge (APC)

The Journal being an Open Access journal supports its publishing activities by charging a nominal Article Processing Charge (APC) from Authors. The details for the same can be found HERE

IV Peer-review Policy

All the manuscripts submitted to Journal of Natural Remedies will be subjected to Double Blind Peer Review process. The Double Blind Peer Review is practiced with the intention that there is a fair review to help improve the research submission.

• Double Blind Peer Review--- Authors are kept anonymous. Reviewers will not know who the author is for the manuscript assigned to them. Likewise the author will not be aware of who the reviewer is for their manuscript.
• The manuscript will be reviewed by two suitable experts in the subject area of the submission.
• The review reports from both the reviewers will be considered while deciding on acceptance/revision or rejection of a manuscript.
• Editor-In-Chief (EIC) will make the final decision, based on reviewer’s comments.
• EIC can ask one or more editorial board members for their suggestions upon a manuscript, before making the final decision.
• Associate editors and review editors provide the administrative support to maintain the integrity of peer review process.
• Authors need to make the necessary changes based on review comments before it is considered for acceptance.
• Canvassing in any form, at any stage of the article will lead to rejection of the manuscript.
• Duration of review process from the time the manuscript is assigned to a reviewer, would be close to 45 working days.
• The article accepted for publication will be queued for the next issue of publication.

V Licensing Policy

To fully realise the potential of open access to research literature, barriers to reuse need to be removed. The Creative Commons (CC) licenses have emerged as an effective legal instrument to achieve this. Instead of transferring rights exclusively to publishers (the approach usually followed in subscription publishing), authors grant a non-exclusive license to the publisher to distribute the work, and all users and readers are granted rights to reuse the work. CC-BY allows for unrestricted reuse of content, subject only to the requirement that the source work is appropriately attributed. The CC-BY license thereby requires that authors are given appropriate credit for their work, as explained in a recent post from Creative Commons

VI Archiving Policy

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

VII Advertisement Policy

Currently there is no policy to accept advertisements. However, if the publishers along with the editorial team decide to accept commercial advertisements, a policy would be drafted appropriately.

PUBLICATION ETHICS

The Journal of Natural Remedies (JNR) is an electronic Double Blind peer reviewed journal upholding the highest standards. Informatics Journals, as a publisher adopts COPE’s best practice guidelines for dealing with ethical issues. The Journal Members (Editors, Editorial Board Members and the Editorial Manager) have consented to adopt the COPE as it meets the purpose and objective of the Journal.

The following is a summary of COPE’s international standards for authors of scholarly research publications and describes responsible research reporting practice.

• The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.
• Researchers should present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation.
• Researchers should strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others.
• Researchers should adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarised, and has not been published elsewhere.
• Authors should take collective responsibility for submitted and published work.
• The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals' contributions to the work and its reporting.
• Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed.

Articles not in accordance with publication ethics will be removed from publication if detected at any time. Plagiarism and research fabrication such as making up of data, manipulation of existing data, tables etc. and ethical clearance on the use of humans or animals for the study will also be checked. The journal reserves the right to use plagiarism detecting software to screen submitted papers at any time and suspected plagiarism or duplicate publishing will be reported immediately.

I Authors Responsibility

• Their work is original
• Must not have been published elsewhere
• Other authors, contributors or sources should be appropriately credited
• They are responsible for language editing before submission
• Their work has not been copied or plagiarized in whole or part from any other work
• The financial support and conflict of interest for the project / research work if any should be disclosed
• They are obliged to notify the editor if any error or inaccuracy is discovered and cooperate with the editor to correct the same

Articles should be submitted using online procedures. Simultaneous publication in more than one publication is a breach of publication ethics.

II Editor's Responsibility

• The submitted manuscript undergoes Double-blind peer review before publishing
• They will strive to prevent any conflict of interest between the author and editorial and review personnel
• All the information related to the submitted manuscript is kept confidential prior to publishing

III Publisher Responsibilities

• Published content is not manipulated or changed.
• Authors, Editors and Reviewers adhere to their responsibilities and work flow.
• Appropriate consent is sought from authors prior to publishing the content.
• There is no Copyright or License violations.
• All content is published in accordance to the Policy and Ethics statement of the Journal.

IV Reviewers Responsibility

• Reviews the manuscript and provides suitable comments for improvement
• Promptness in notifying the editor about his inability to review the manuscript
• Maintains confidentiality about the manuscript obtained for review, by not discussing with others
• Standards of Objectivity preserved by reviewing the manuscripts objectively with clear views and supporting arguments and without any personal criticism
• Acknowledgement of Sources
• All References not cited by author should be removed. All citations should be accompanied with any previously reported observation, derivation or argument.
• The editors should be intimated for any overlap of the reviewed manuscript with any other published paper.
• Disclosures and Conflict of Interest – manuscripts having conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative or any other relationships or connections with institutions connected to the paper will not be considered.

V Manuscript Withdrawal Policy

Authors must abide by these policies after submission of their manuscript.

• Authors must provide their consent to publish their manuscript prior to peer-review process. Withdrawing an already confirmed manuscript after it has been accepted would attract a minimal article handling charge.
• If the author withdraws the article after acceptance of the manuscript and payment has also been made, there will be NO REFUND of the Article Processing Charge (APC) already paid.
• If a Manuscript is withdrawn over indexing issues, NO REFUND will be made.

VI Waiver Policy

• JNR may grant the partial/full waiver in article processing charges to those authors who are unable to pay the APCs due to financial crisis.
• Only the authors from low income countries can apply for waiver.
• Waiver is applicable for one article per year for each submitting author.

Please send your waiver requests to jnreditor@informaticsglobal.com

VII Copyright Policies

All the articles published are distributed under a Creative Commons license. The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright of their work. For Informatics Journals to Publish and Disseminate research articles, we only require the Publishing Rights. This can be done by a Transfer of Publishing Rights only to Informatics Publishing Limited, authors retain the rights to share and use their work.

VIII Disclaimer

The author(s) of each article appearing in this Journal is/are solely responsible for the content thereof; neither the JNR nor its editors or publisher or anyone else involved in creating, producing or distribution assumes any liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information provided in the Journal, nor shall they be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages arising out of the use of JNR.

IX Plagiarism

For every Journal, the peer review process is at the heart of the success of publishing. As part of our commitment to the protection and enhancement of the peer review process, The JNR would like to ensure that all published articles are within the accepted level of plagiarism. The Journal uses the very well and widely accepted Plagiarism Detection tool, iThenticate. All submitted Manuscripts are first subjected to Plagiarism check and then the Publishing cycle begins.

In case, plagiarism is detected during review/editorial process, such manuscript(s) will be rejected immediately and we can also consider other steps depending upon the seriousness of the case. If the plagiarism is proven after publication, such manuscript(s) will be removed from our website and appropriate announcement will be placed in this regards. Further, "JNR" can bring such instances in notice of author's funding agencies, author's institutes (where they work) and to the original authors whose work has been plagiarized. Please report the plagiarism to jnreditor@informaticsglobal.com

X Animal & Human Rights

While reporting experiments on human subjects, you should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional). While reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether you adhered to the guidelines of an institution, national research council governing the care and use of laboratory animals.

XI Corrections and Retraction Policy

As per COPEs best practice guidelines.