Each manuscript submitted to Eastern
Medical College Journal (Eastern Med Coll J) undergoes a peer-review process.
The manuscript is primarily screened
by the EMCJ editorial board. During this process, the manuscript is checked for grammatical
errors, journal style, any competing interest and plagiarism.
The manuscripts with major errors
like inappropriate topics & contents, gross language & grammatical mistakes and more than
20% plagiarism are rejected. Primary screening usually takes one week to complete.
Manuscripts that pass primary
screening are sent to at least two anonymous reviewers under a double-blind peer-review process,
in line with COPE guidelines, ensuring impartiality and confidentiality. Reviewers are given
two weeks to complete their review.
Once all reviews are received,
reviewers’ comments are sent to the corresponding author by the Editor-in-Chief or Editor,
requesting necessary corrections. Authors are asked to submit the revised manuscript within one week.
After receiving the corrected
manuscript from the corresponding author, the suggested decision will be evaluated in
an editorial board meeting. Afterward, the editor will send the final decision
to the corresponding author.
All the accepted manuscript undergoes
copyediting, typesetting, figure sizing & placement, and final proofreading before issue assignment.
Withdraw after acceptance of a
manuscript is not a good publication practice since the editors and reviewers have put in
so much of their valuable time and effort on the manuscript.
Articles may be retracted for plagiarism,
duplicate publication, data fabrication, or serious ethical violations, and corrections or errata will
be published when honest errors are identified. All actions follow COPE’s Retraction Guidelines.
