Publication Policy

GNSURJ: A Multidisciplinary Journal

Published by Gopal Narayan Singh University

The Editorial Board of the Journal accepts the manuscripts having the direct reflection of the author’s research works and achievements. Looking into the sensitivity and importance of the academic content, the journal follows the prescribed ethics policy for all stakeholders (authors, reviewers, editors, others) involved in the process of publishing the journal. This policy is based on internationally accepted best practices for research Journal.

Responsibilities of Authors

An author(s) is/are expected to be responsible for the presented data and information in their respective article along with taking the responsibility of the significance. The authors are expected to present original outcome of their research, and an appropriate and relevant citation should be considered while representing the data and documenting the discussion. Authors must provide information which is understandable and reproducible. Supporting information such as figures and tables provided by the authors should be legible and must be reproducible technically.

An author should not repeat any previous research data from themselves or anyone else while submitting an original manuscript for a primary publication in the journal. The reported scope of work should be based on proper citation from the other publications influencing. Before submitting any article, authors should check the scope of the journal and in case of any query they should contact the Editorial office.

The Author(s) should ethically respect the copyrights, patents, acknowledgements, references, disclosures, and conflicts of interests as and wherever applicable in whatsoever manners.

The author(s) should properly cite and acknowledge the work of others as well as their own related work that they have got already published and used as reference in the currently submitted manuscript. It is the responsibility of the authors, not the editors or reviewers or any other board member of the journal, to ensure that relevant prior research outcomes and discoveries are appropriately acknowledged with the original citations in manuscripts submitted for publication.

Authors should strictly adhere to the authorship criteria. All listed authors must have made a significant contribution to the research presented in the manuscript and approved all its claims. Any person to be considered as an author of an original research article must have contributed in any of the following ways: designed the study, executed the study or conducted the experiments, have taken part in analyzing the data, supported in documenting the article and drawing the conclusion, spearheaded the project as a principal investigator. It is mandatory to include everyone who made a significant contribution towards the completion of the research work.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

Confidentiality: Reviewers should not share any information from an assigned manuscript with outsiders without the prior permission from the Editor or preserve the data from an assigned manuscript.

Competence: Reviewer with fair expertise should complete the review. Assigned reviewer with inadequate expertise should feel responsible and may decline the review as it is presumed that reviewer will be an expert in the respective field.

Constructive assessment: Reviewer’s comments should appreciate positive aspects of the work, identify negative aspects constructively, and indicate the enhancement needed. A reviewer should explain and support his or her judgment clearly enough that Editors and Authors can understand the basis of the comments. The reviewer should ensure that an observation or argument that has been previously reported be accompanied by a relevant citation and should immediately alert the Editor when he or she becomes aware of duplicate publication. A reviewer should not use any kind of abusive language while commenting on an article. Judgment of each article should be done without any bias and personal interest by the assigned reviewer.

Impartiality and Integrity: Reviewer’s decision should solely depend on scientific merit, relevance to the subject, scope of the journal rather than financial, racial, ethnic origin etc., of the authors.No person should make or retain copies of the content and all contents must be returned to Editor-in-Chief / Editor after taking required actions on it.

The reviewers should submit their comments on the manuscripts and its contents and not on the knowledge of proficiency of the author(s). The reviewer should also extend their vision towards the contribution of the content towards the society and the objectives of the journal and provide the comments accordingly.


Disclosure of conflict of interest: To the extent feasible, the reviewer should minimize the conflict of interest. In such situation, reviewer should notify the editor describing the conflict of interest.

Timeliness and responsiveness: Reviewers should morally abide to provide the review comments within the stipulated time and be active enough in responding to the queries raised by the editor if any.

Responsibilities of Editors and Editorial Board

Editors have a responsibility to maintain the integrity of the published literature, if required, by publishing modifications or corrections identifying anything of significance, retractions, and expressions of concern as quickly as possible. Editor must comply with the policy guidelines provided by the publisher and fulfill the responsibilities bestowed upon with integrity.

No person should make or retain copies of the content and all content must be returned to Editor-in-Chief / Editor after taking required actions on it.

The reviewers should submit their comments on the manuscripts and its contents and not on the knowledge of proficiency of the author(s). The reviewer should also extend their vision towards the contribution of the content towards the society and the objectives of the journal and provide the comments accordingly.

The Editor-in-Chief/Editor would consider the reviewer’s comments as one of the basis of its decision about inclusion or rejection of the manuscripts in any volume of the journal though, there can be many other factors contributing to this decision e.g. criticality of the topic, suitability to current theme of journal etc. that may have not been commented upon by the reviewers. Based on all factors, the Editor-in- Chief/Editor would take the decision about inclusion of manuscripts in the journal.

Blind review means confidentiality of reviewers’ identities from authors and authors’ identities from reviewers. Editors, reviewers, and all involved parties should maintain this two way confidentiality of the Blind Review Process.

The editors should make proper checks to avoid conflict of interests between authors and reviewers.

The Editor-in-Chief/Editor may skip or add some step(s) in the processing of the manuscript if found utmost needed in order to avoid any conflicts or forecasted crisis. The Editor-in-Chief/Editor however, would be the final decision making authority for such steps.

Review process

Editors are responsible for monitoring and ensuring the fairness, timeliness, thoroughness, and civility of the peer-review editorial process.

Timely suggestion to the respective journals for covering relevant and significant topic by the Editor is essential for the growth of the journal.

Right of publisher to transfer the publication right

The publisher may transfer the right of publication in whole or in part to third parties, or may grant licensees to third parties to use the rights to which it is entitled

Publication Board

The publication Board will monitor the publication process lawfully.

Towards Readers and Academic Community

  • To ensure that the content or the author information present in the manuscript is
  • To evaluate all manuscripts such that they fall within the scope of the
  • To maintain the journals internal integrity by suggesting the corrections, dealing with retraction, supplemental data
  • To ensure that all involved in the publication process understand that it is inappropriate to manipulate

Disclaimer:

  • In any case, the journal, or its management, would not be liable to pay any refund or monetary or any form of penalties to anyone because of unethical behaviour of its member or
  • Open access articles can be identified by the Creative Commons copyright statement that appears at the end of the article and takes the following form:
    “This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0.”
    or
    “This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.”
  • This Journal, does not take any responsibility of violation of copyright, patent, or any other laws or rules by authors in their content or due to any ignorance in review process.
  • We disclaim the responsibility of correctness or completeness of the content in any respect and author(s) is (are) considered to take complete responsibility of the submitted article/ paper.