Jundishapur Scientific Medical Journal

Peer Review Policy

Journal of Jundishapur Scientific Medical Journal (JSMJ), uses double-blind peer review to review manuscripts. So that the reviewers do not know the author's identity and vice versa. The time span for the judging process, is less than 1 months and includes the following stages:

 

1. A) Paper registration and preliminary review 

• Registering the author(s) and completing their personal information and uploading of the paper by the responsible author on the Jundishapur Scientific Medical Journal (JSMJ) website.
• The responsible author is duty bound for protecting the authors' rights, and the Jundishapur Scientific Medical Journal (JSMJ),  has no responsibility against any claim among the authors, as well as the authors and other authorities.
• At the same time, the author is also responsible for sending the paper to several publications.
• The submitted papers should not have more than 15% similarity to any other papers.
• Following the submission of the paper by the author or authors, an initial evaluation will be carried out to determine the relevance of the article to the objectives and policy line of the Jundishapur Scientific Medical Journal (JSMJ), regarding the appropriate quality in terms of structure and content, introducing new sources, respecting the opinion of the chief editor/specialist editor of the journal about the preliminary evaluation.
• In case of a need for initial modifications of the form and contents, the paper will be referred to the responsible author.
• After acceptance of the paper at the initial evaluation stage, the editorial board of the JSMJ will appoint specialized judge.

 

1. B) Double-Blind Peer Review 

• Sending the manuscript to two experts reviewers that the editorial board has chosen.
• Reviewing the manuscript and sending the editor in chief/editor the reviewers' remarks along with a completed assessment form.

 

1. C) The status of the paper after the peer review process and revision 

At this stage, the papers are divided into 3 categories:

1. Rejection of the paper by both judges, in such case, the paper will be removed from the JSMJ’s acceptance process and the author will be notified about the rejection accordingly.
2. Acceptance of the paper by both judges without making any corrections. in these cases, the paper will be forwarded to the final acceptance stage and will wait for its publication turn.
3. Referring of the paper to the third reviewer is done while the paper is approved by one judge and rejected by the other.

Note that: 

• The document will be returned to the relevant author for evaluation, correction of any flaws, and implementation of the reviewer's requested alterations in the event that the third reviewer finds the work deserving of examination and thinks it requires either a full or partial revision.
• During 15 days, the accountable author must re-upload the manuscript with the necessary revisions.
• When the reviewer's requested adjustments have been confirmed as necessary, the editor in chief or editor will compare the amended version of the document with the reviewer's remarks and make the ultimate determination as to whether the paper should be accepted or rejected.
• If the manuscript is finally accepted, the responsible author will be asked to confirm his or her organisational affiliation and contact information.
• After editing and preparation for publishing, a DOI identifier will be given to those manuscripts that were approved.
• The papers for each edition of the JSMJ may be downloaded for free in PDF and XML formats from the JSMJ website as they become available.
• The number of approved articles determines the length of time until the papers can be published and printed.