Publication Policy
This is the only Scientific Journal that provides facility for immediate provisional publication and allows instant open access to its contents on the premise that making research out-put available at the earliest without hindrance to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and its ultimate beneficial applications much faster for betterment of mankind in-general.
This journal while calls for an unpublished research work to be published it also encourages sharing a work-in-progress through this global media as it helps promote a dynamic and interactive scholarly community. Authors may choose to post their recently published articles or older articles for wider, coherent, and better visibility of their work and create a data base in IJSMET-Repository ( of course, it goes without saying that, possible copyright infringement and/or any other kind of legal implications associated will be of the contributing Author’s lookout and ultimate responsibility to handle them directly and independently without the involvement of IJSMET management in any manner, should there be a controversy raised).
Further, there are occasions when a researcher due to some unforeseen personal difficulty or upon retirement from active service has some unfinished work worth to be shared/published may now do so here with appropriate annotations and even suggest interested fellow researchers around the globe a direction. Decision, of course, lies with the fellow researcher to follow, not to follow or follow with caution and modifications. Never-the-less it will be a great boost to the scientific community at large, since, years of experience of an individual in a particular field of research has its unique foot prints to be reckoned with.
In all fairness it is expected that whenever the author(s) discover an inadvertent yet significant error or inaccuracy in their published work in IJSMET it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal and cooperate with the editor(s) to correct or retract the data at the earliest in the best interest of healthy development of science and technology.
IJSMET shall expect the highest ethical standards to be maintained by its contributors (with a mutual honor system) and especially in medical and life sciences reporting CARE MUST be conforming to the International code of ethics standards and procedures on human trials and animal experimentation.
BE IT LOUD AND CLEAR CAUTION TO THE CONTRIBUTORS THAT VIOLATIONS OF ANY LOCAL and/or INTERNATIONAL LAWS and ETHICAL CODES IN THIS REGARD WILL BE THE TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS ONLY; WHERE, THE JOURNAL MANAGEMENT WILL HAVE NO AXE TO GRIND IN WHATSOEVER CAPACITY / MANNER.
The humble publication fee charged to the contributors will be used for charity purposes in totality after the minimum expenses required to maintain the JOURNAL IJSMET ALIVE WITH RESPECT.
FEES ONCE CREDITED THROUGH THE SUBMISSIONS CHANNEL WILL NEVER BE REFUNDED / REIMBURSED IN PART OR OTHERWISE UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE.
Disclaimer
IJSMET shall not take any responsibility for the contents of the articles published in the journal and all such responsibility shall lie with the author(s). The opinion(s) and the findings expressed in the articles published are solely of the author(s) where IJSMET subscribe NO VIEW either in favor or against of reported opinion and results, therein.
The Journal, IJSMET, does not claim any kind of copyright agreement from the author(s) on articles published here and has no scope for indulging with any kind of user licensing affairs, thereafter, either. Our policy is just to provide Open Access to scholarly knowledge.
However, IJSMET demands reproduction of published material in the part or whole in any form to effect with due acknowledgments and citations of the Author(s) name, and the source, IJSMET, as per good ethical practice.
Types of Contribution
- Original Research Paper
- Short Communication / Letter
- Perspectives
- Comments
- Ideas / New Concepts with Arguments
- Review Article
- Popular Article
- Essays
- Hypothesis
- Case Reports : Medicine
- Case Studies : Engineering/Technology
- News & Views
- Commentary Paper on Controversial Scientific Issues
- Reproducibility Initiative; Replication Attempt of published data
- Negative / Non-confirmatory Results Reporting
- Work-in-progress
- Unfinished Work (due to retirement/shifting from R&D base or unavoidable reasons)
- Preprint version
- Accepted Author Manuscript (AAM) elsewhere
- Published Journal Article (PJA) elsewhere
- Book
- Monograph
- Book Review
- Videos (upon request only)
- IJSMET Repository (Any relevant material)
- Meeting / Seminar / Conference Announcements & Reports