Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice

The Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (JPSR) journal is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and takes all possible measures against any publication malpractices. All authors submitting their works to the JPSR journal for publication as original articles attest that the submitted works represent their authors’ contributions and have not been copied or plagiarized in whole or in part from other works. The authors acknowledge that they have disclosed all and any actual or potential conflicts of interest in their work or partial benefits associated with it. In the same manner, the JPSR journal is committed to objective and fair double-blind peer-review of the submitted for publication works and to prevent any actual or potential conflict of interests between the editorial and review personnel and the reviewed material. Any departures from the above-defined rules should be reported directly to the Editors-in-Chief, who is unequivocally committed to providing swift resolutions to any of such a type of problems.

Further to the above, the JPSR journal provides a platform for the open public discussion of the journal contents. To secure accountability and to encourage sincere professional inputs without incivilities the system is set up to require registration and logging for recording of inputs. Some of the website contents will be available without logging, but no peer review comments can be posted on the website without the disclosure of the reviewer identity to the journal editors.

Policy for screening manuscript for Plagiarism

Papers submitted to Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research will be screened for plagiarism. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research will immediately reject papers without reviewing the paper leading to plagiarism or self-plagiarism.