Sparkling International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Studies
(A Quarterly Peer Reviewed/Refereed Multidisciplinary Journal)
PEER REVIEW AND PUBLICATION POLICY
Review Policy
Common Policy
Author or Authors may submit their manuscripts in electronic form through the official email to the Chief Editor. As soon as the manuscript is received, it will be scrutinised and reviewed by the experts to check whether the manuscript is relevant to the journal or not, and the result will be intimated to the authors for further action.
The critical review of the articles
The reviewers, after receiving the article, they have to go through the abstract alone and write up a few sentences to the editor’s e-mail with regard to the status of the abstract of the research paper or article. The reviewers have the right to accept or decline the invitation to review within the stipulated time. They can also write any number of reasons for declining the reviewed papers. As soon as a research paper is received for review, the reviewers have to review it and send it immediately to the editor.
If the reviewer has any time constraint or is not able to review the paper or needs a lot of time he/she may report to the chief editor. The chief editor may send the same paper to the other relevant reviewer.
The authors have to go through the reviewed manuscript once or thrice and send the corrected papers to the editor.
The reviewers have to go through the paper very thoroughly and judge effectively based on the following aspects:
✔ Originality without plagiarism
✔ The topic of the subject matter and its suitable title
✔ Techniques, Methods, Approaches relevant to the topic selected
✔ Data analysed using appropriate statistical techniques
✔ Literature citations both in the documents and reference list
✔ Selection of scientific formats such as APA, MLA and so on
✔ Proper interpretation and discussion of the findings.
✔ The capability of organising ideas and coherence.
✔ Adherence to the instructions to authors.
✔ Appropriateness of figures and tables.
✔ Length prescribed.
The following are compulsorily attached to the manuscript:
Plagiarism:
It is an offence. Hence, the authors should be very cautious while writing the manuscript and sending it to the editor.
Attestation of authors:
Every paper should have the author’s own concept or ideas, and the data should not be manipulated or false or wrong or imitated.
Dual submission and/or publication:
Once the paper is sent to our publication, it should not be sent to other publishers.
Publication Policy
Any addition, deletion or modification may be done for pruning in the paper. Provided that the authors may substantiate their statements or concepts with relevant evidence for the acceptability of their papers. Authors can avoid florid language, dogmatic and dismissive statements.
An introductory paragraph may summarise the major findings of the article. The highlights of the major shortcomings should be rectified appropriately before publication.
- Quality papers will be taken into consideration for immediate, unconditional acceptance.
- If a paper has serious flaws in any part of the presentation with regard to methods, approaches, collection of data, employment of statistical techniques, interpretations and discussion, irrelevant recommendations and so on.
- The paper carrying flaws will be sent to the author for rectification, and the corrected one will be sent for review. And only then will it be published.
The publishers will act according to the Reviewers’ advice to the editors with regard to recommendation for acceptance, modification, or rejection of the manuscript. The final decision rests solely with the editor.