ASRK-Open Access Journals

Peer Review Process

The rigour of a peer review system ensures the quality of a research article. Academic Journals employs a rigorous peer review system. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether a manuscript should be published in their journal. When a manuscript is submitted to a journal, it is assessed to see if it meets the criteria for submission. If it does, the editorial team will select potential peer reviewers within the field of research to peer-review the manuscript and make recommendations. Academic Journals considers the double-blind peer system as a more effective review system because it limits possible bias from either the selected reviewers or from authors.

Single-blind: The reviewers know the names of the authors, but the authors do not know who reviewed their manuscript unless the reviewer chooses to sign their report.

Double-blind: The reviewers do not know the names of the authors, and the authors do not know who reviewed their manuscript.

Reviewers might be reluctant to criticize the work of more senior researchers – especially if their career depends on them. In smaller research communities this might be a bigger problem

Publication Ethics

The journal ensures publication or advertising does not influence the choices of editors. The Editorial Board of the journal permits you to speak with alternative publishers, journals, and authors for the asking for affiliation. Therefore, Academic Journals expects all authors to adhere to ethical requirements in the preparation of their manuscript.

Data fabrication and falsification
Data fabrication means the researcher did not actually do the study, but made up data. Data falsification means the researcher did the experiment, but then changed some of the data. Both of these practices make people distrust scientists. If the public is mistrustful of science then it will be less willing to provide funding support.

Plagiarism
Taking the ideas and work of others without giving them credit is unfair and dishonest. Copying even one sentence from someone else's manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation is considered plagiarism-use your own words instead.

Multiple submissions
It is unethical to submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. Doing this wastes the time of editors and peer reviewers, and can damage the reputation of journals if published in more than one.

Citation manipulation

• Authors whose submitted manuscripts are found to include citations whose primary purpose is to increase the number of citations to a given author’s work, or to articles published in a particular journal, may incur sanctions.
• Editors and reviewers must not ask authors to include references merely to increase citations to their own or an associate’s work, to the journal, or to another journal they are associated with.

Redundant publications (or 'salami' publications)
This means publishing many very similar manuscripts based on the same experiment. It can make readers less likely to pay attention to your manuscripts.

Improper author contribution or attribution
All listed authors must have made a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and approved all its claims. Don't forget to list everyone who made a significant scientific contribution, including students and laboratory technicians. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors has detailed guidelines on authorship that are useful for scientists in all fields.

Publication Charges

All articles published in our journals are open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. This is made possible by an article-processing charge (APC) that covers the range of publishing services we provide. This includes provision of online tools for editors and authors, article production and hosting, liaison with abstracting and indexing services, and customer services.

ASRK Open Access Journals, self-financed and does not receive funding from any institution/government. Hence, the Journal operates solely through processing charges we receive from the authors and some academic/corporate sponsors. The handling fee is required to meet its maintenance. Being an Open Access Journal, It does not collect subscription charges from readers that enjoy free online access to the articles. Authors are hence required to pay a fair handling fee for processing their articles.

Waiver Policy
Our goal is to effectively bridge the digital research divide and ensure that publishing in Open Access journals is accessible for authors in developing countries. We grant waivers in cases of genuine need, therefore we automatically apply Article Publishing Charge (APC) waivers or discounts. The provision for complete or partial fee waiver depends on the case-by-case basis for the authors. However, the request for waiver is taken into consideration only if the request for a waiver has been sent to the journal editor before submission of the manuscript.

Plagiarism Policy

• Plagiarism refers to intentional copying of others work without proper attribution or copies content without providing for appropriate references.
• Scientific Wisdom open access journals are following strict policy in case of plagiarism within its purview. Before, during or after the publication process if the editorial board member, reviewer, author etc. detects any element of plagiarism; the authors are advised to provide proper citations.
• An article plagiarized more than 25% is summarily rejected and the author is informed the same. The submitted manuscript is checked for the plagiarism before starting the review process.
• The publishers request our readers if they come across any instance of the plagiarism; they are requested to provide sufficient information to the editorial office giving the details such as the journal name, manuscript title, volume number, issue number, year of publication or any other information which may be of interest to the journal. The publisher guidelines are taken into consideration in this regard.
• The manuscript which clears the review process and gets published in the journal but later on is detected to contain plagiarized content, the author’s office and funding agencies are contacted. Each page of the PDF is marked and based on the extent of plagiarism; the article may be formally retracted.
• Anti-plagiarism software is employed to check the originality of an article. The manuscript that is submitted is understood to be unpublished work and is not considered for publication elsewhere. Duplicate publication of the submitted manuscript in whole or in parts will be considered as a breaching of plagiarism policy and is not welcome by the journal. Plagiarism also essentially violates the laws of copyright and one’s original ideas, words and the unique expressions are seriously ill-represented. The plagiarism is also extended to figures, tables, equations or illustrations, direct downloads from the internet without proper acknowledgement to the sources from which they are taken.
• Sometimes, the authors are in danger of committing self-plagiarism. It refers to reuse of one’s own copyrighted material without proper attribution to the original source. If a categorical reference is made to previously published work or the exact sentences are cited in quotation marks, it clearly separates it from the rest of the content and doesn’t create any ambiguity. At times, the authors may not be aware that they are plagiarizing the content; nevertheless it is one’s own responsibility to clearly demarcate the differences between paraphrasing and quoting exact words and citing with proper references. At times, the authors knowingly borrow the ideas, contents from the other authors which constitutes blatant plagiarism. Sometimes, the authors resort to much more devious means such as salami-slicing where the authors extract small amounts of data in increments from the previously published articles.

If the suspected plagiarism is detected in a published article

• The individual whoever has disclosed this information is advised to follow the process to effectively address the issue.
• The extent of copying in the published article suspected of plagiarism is evaluated.
• The Editorial Board members are intimated and asked for their valuable feedback.
• The author for the article in question is contacted with supporting evidence and asked for a response.
• If the authors are found guilty of plagiarism, Crimson publishers publishes official retraction of the paper.
• The publishers will not consider the author's publications in the future for a period of 5 years.
• Different types of plagiarism are explained based on extent, originality of the copied material, context, referencing, intention, author seniority and language. The Journal responses to plagiarism include educating authors, contacting authors’ institutions, issuing corrections and issuing retractions.
• The Editor provides the following documentation in response to the plagiarized work: the description of the alleged misconduct; manuscript title; the list of the authors; title of ideas; list of creators and date of creation; copies of both the manuscripts; full name and address of the complainant.
• The charge of the plagiarism, the supporting materials and the outcomes remain confidential and are known to only those who are involved in the review process.

The Journal expects the authors to follow these guidelines

• The focus should be on ideas published in the prior works.
• In Word-to-Word Copying, the authors are required to make sure their work is properly italicized and indented, citations must include a link to URLs. Though the Journal adopts double-blind review, proper attribution is provided.
• The creative contribution of ideas, texts, analysis presented in a paper which is under consideration for the publication are also cited in subsequent papers as the first source.
• Using, duplicating and copying the empirical data that is employed in the previously published works must be properly referenced and cited. When using the mathematical data from the previous works it is always advisable to re-use notation for the consistency and re-use of variable definition is encouraged.
• When in doubt, it is best practice to cite the previous publications or describe the situation writing a cover letter to the editor.

Withdrawal and Refund Policy

Changing one’s mind is an author’s prerogative. And an author is free to withdraw an article at no charge -as long as it is withdrawn within 3 days of its initial submission.

Article Cancellation/ Withdrawal

• Once the submitted article is processed for peer review procedure, it cannot be withdrawn.
• Article cancellation/ withdrawal is possible in the following cases with a signed statement from all the co-authors to the journal's editorial office via mail.
• The articles which represent early versions of articles
• The articles which sometimes contain errors, or may have been accidentally submitted twice.
• The articles may represent infringements of professional ethical codes, like multiple submission, fake claims of authorship, plagiarism, and fraudulent use of data or the like.

Refund Policy

• The refund is full & you will get your money back if the paper does not reach the reviewing (Initial) stage.
• We do not offer refunds for Open Access once articles have been published.

Commitment to Ethical Standards

We adhere to the highest ethical publishing standards, ensuring that your research is presented with integrity and transparency.

Community Engagement

By publishing with us, you join a vibrant community of scholars. We facilitate networking opportunities through webinars, conferences, and special issues, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.