About the Journal | Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences

Editor-in-Chief: Chin-Hsiang Cheng (View Profile)

Abbreviated key title: J. Basic Appl. Sci.

ISSN:(online): 1927-5129

ISSN:(print): 1814-8085

Published by: Set Publisher

Aims & Scope
Editorial Policies
Open Access Statement
Peer Review Policy
Plagiarism Policy
Publication Ethics & Malpractice Policy
Digital Data Archiving
Copyright & Licensing
Special Issues
Privacy Policy

Aims and Scope:

Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences is a peer reviewed, open access international scientific journal dedicated for rapid publication of high quality original research articles as well as review articles in major areas of basic and applied sciences. The journal covers following disciplines:

Agriculture
Architectural Engineering
Biochemistry
Applied Geodesy
Botany
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Earth Science
Energy

Material Science
Environment
Geography
Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering
Nano Science
Petroleum
Physics
Polymer and Composite

Editorial Policies:

Overview

For journals, Set Publishers apply the subsequent editorial policies. It’s required by the authors to prepare their manuscripts according to the directions mentioned below. If their work is considered unethical, manuscripts might not be accepted or returned to the author for revision.

Ethics & Consent

The authors must provide formal declaration or approval of the ethics committee and their reference number, wherever appropriate in the manuscripts, if they carry out experiments
involving investigations on humans or animals.

In obtaining consent, the authors should discuss the purpose(s) of publication, the possible risks and benefits to the patient and the patient’s right to withhold or withdraw consent. In the case of a minor patient, consent should be obtained from the guardian(s).

In studies involving experiments on live vertebrates or higher invertebrates and plants, the authors must confirm that all experiments were performed in accordance with the national and international standards and guidelines.

In cases where the study has been exempted from requiring an ethical approval, it’s required by the authors to include the relevant details in their manuscripts. Furthermore, the Editor can request for further information regarding this, if the need arises.

The Editor holds the right of rejecting the manuscripts if he regards the research as not being carried out within an appropriate ethical framework or if the research involves procedures that are not consistent with the generally accepted norms of animal research.

Authorship

Any person listed as an author should considerably contribute in the development of the manuscript. He or she should have a noticeable role in the interpretation of the work/experiments, drafting it and the final approval of the manuscript.

Authors need to invite the interest of reviewers by explicitly stating the significance of their work. The paper has to generate some new ideas so that it becomes a valid contribution in the realm of science. The conclusion should gain attention for readership and is supposed to have some impact among the research community.

The authors need to keep their data safely intact because it may be required by the editorial board as they review the paper. This would be done just to check for the authenticity of the work sent. It is guaranteed that the data sent would not be misused in any case.

Any discrepancies among the authors should be resolved by them or the relevant institutional authority. Set Publishers is not responsible to resolve them before or after the publication. Any changes in the author list, after submission of the manuscript, must be approved by every author.

ROLES OF CORRESPONDING AUTHORS:

Only the principal/corresponding author is responsible for submitting the manuscript alongside the Copyright Letter, on behalf of all the co-authors (if any). It is his or her responsibility to inform all co-authors of any matters arising in relation to the published paper and to ensure such matters are dealt with promptly.

The corresponding author is responsible to mention names of all contributors of the paper. If the paper has multiple authors, then the corresponding author is responsible to have mentioned their names.

All co-authors are supposed to be on agreement for the final version of the paper that is to be published. Mutual consent of all authors is an essential requirement which has to be ensured by the corresponding author before the paper reaches the editorial board.

Guarantee that the paper sent is original and chiefly their own work. Where ideas are taken from other sources there needs to be proper citation and referencing. Any illustration, structure or table that has been published elsewhere must be reported, and copyright permission for reproduction must be obtained.

If the author finds any information sent in the paper erratic or inappropriate he/she must notify the journal immediately so that it can be corrected.

In case of change in authorship, the following form should be submitted at info@setpublisher.com.

NOTE: No changes will be made after the publishing of the manuscript.

Conflict of Interest

The authors, reviewers and editors are required to declare any conflict of interest, either financial or non-financial. These conflicts should be included at the end of the manuscript, before the references, under the heading of “Conflict of Interest”.

The authors should disclose any past and present affiliations, funding sources, financial and personal interests related to the reported research that might raise questions about possible sources of bias.

The reviewers and academic editors should mention any conflict of interest that might arise during the evaluation of paper. It can be due to personal or professional relationships, competing research and financial interests.

If any conflict of interest is suspected, it should be reported to the Set Publishers or Editor.

The mention of such interests do not make the manuscripts unethical but they should be acknowledged as the editor must know about any competing interests that the author might have. In case of no conflict, the authors are required to include this in their manuscripts as well.

Acknowledgements

Often a paper acquires its final shape through ideas generated by a number of people. In such cases it is important to mention all those names that have participated in execution of the paper. Even a minor participation requires acknowledgement so as to take care of grievances that may occur later on.

Confidentiality

Set Publishers will not share the manuscripts with the third parties unless legally obliged.
Editors, reviewers and authors are required to maintain confidentiality and not publicize the details of editorial or peer review process.
It’s the responsibility of reviewers not to share or reveal the content or any other detail of the manuscript, except that which has already been revealed by the journal.
If help is sought from an external referee or colleague in the peer-review process, then prior to sharing the information, the journal must be notified and the editor should provide his approval.
The names of all such referees should be provided to the journal with the final report.
The details of the Reviewers are also kept confidential as the peer review process is confidential and conducted anonymously.
If misconduct is suspected, Set Publishers hold the right to turn to the authors, journals or the respective funding organization.

Correction, Retraction and Withdrawal

The peer-review process ensures that the articles are checked multiple times to eliminate the errors.

The author should immediately contact the journal if their work needs amendments or corrections. In such cases, the journal in consultation with the authors of the article, and/or replace or retract the article.

An article may be withdrawn if the journal suspects the violation of ethical code, editorial policies, plagiarism and multiple submissions.

Re-prints

Preprints are scholarly or scientific papers that are shared before the peer-review process.

Set Publishers encourage the authors to share the pre-prints of their manuscripts on preprint servers, personal and institutional websites.

Authors are required to inform the journal about their preprints and share the details of their postings, including the DOI and licensing terms at the time of submission of their manuscripts. Posting preprints doesn’t violate the copyright policy of Set Publishers.

Once the preprint is published, it is the author’s responsibility to ensure that the preprint record is updated with a publication reference, including the DOI and a URL link to the published version of the article on the journal website.

Re-publish

When submitting manuscripts, the authors should make sure that their paper is not under-consideration by any other journal. If such a case exists, then the authors are required to initially inform our journal in order to prevent duplication or overlapping.

Any cited content that hasn’t been formally published should be made available, if requested by the Editor.

The authors should abstain from sharing the content, figures, data, findings or any other relevant information of the paper with the mass media or not-for-profit preprint servers before their work is published.

Appeals & Complaints

Authors who think that their manuscripts were not accepted due to misinterpretation or any other error can appeal to the journal, giving legitimate reasons and evidence. The appeals will be considered by the Editorial Board and relevant referees. The decision taken after the appeal will be considered final.

All such complaints should be addressed to Editor-in-Chief of the respective journal and emailed to info@setpublisher.com.

Open Access Statement:

The full texts of all published articles are available online to everyone without any price or subscription (no embargo period) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non- Commercial License which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Peer Review Policy:

The practice of peer review is exercised to ensure that only quality content is published. It is carried out by almost all reputable scientific journals. Every manuscript received goes through the procedure explained below.

Initial Manuscript Evaluation

The Editor first evaluates all manuscripts. None of the papers are accepted at this stage. Manuscripts rejected at this stage may lack originality, have serious scientific shortcomings or do not lie in the scope of the journal. If the paper meets all the requirements, the editor then passes it to usually 3 but at least 2 experts for review.

Type Of Peer Review

Our policy follows both double- and single-blind reviewing method where both, the referee and author, remain anonymous throughout the process or when either the author or referee is not aware of the other’s identity.

Selection Of Referee

Referees are selected for the paper according to their expertise and our reviewer board has a wide range of experts on it. Rarely, when we are unable to find a second expert for the paper, we request the author to suggest the second referee.

Referee’s Reports

Referees are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript: –

Is original and methodologically sound
Follows appropriate ethical guidelines
Has results which are clearly presented and support the conclusions
Correctly references previous relevant work

Language correction is not expected from the referee but they may suggest corrections to the manuscript. In case the reports by the referees contradict each other, help from a third expert will be sought. The Editor’s decision, with respect to the reports of the referees, will be sent to the author along with the recommendations made by the referee. Revised manuscripts might be returned to the initial referees (if the manuscripts had required major revisions) who may then request another revision of a manuscript.

Usually the authors are given one chance for revision but in some cases the Editor-in-Chief or the editors can make an exception due to the paper being rare, of very high quality, or exceptionally interesting for the readers and allow a third round of review.

How Long Does The Review Process Take?

After a manuscript is submitted, the editor may take a week, at least, for selecting the appropriate reviewers and assigning them their tasks.
The reviewers, in turn, might take a minimum of 2 weeks for carrying out the peer review process, although this is not a definite time period since time required for the review process is dependent on the responses of the referee.
If the article needs revision, the author is given a maximum of 30 days to submit the revised version of the article.
The editor then takes another week for finalizing the manuscript and submitting his/her recommendations to the EIC and the accepted papers are then published.

Final Report

The final decision on the fate of the paper rests with the Editor whereas the referees only advise the editor with their expert opinion. The decision about the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript is sent to the author at this stage, when the peer-review is completed.

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If you are not currently a referee for the Journal of Pharmacy and Nutrition Sciences but would like to be considered as a referee, please click here . The benefits of refereeing for the Journal of Pharmacy and Nutrition Sciences include the opportunity to read see and evaluate the latest work in your research area at an early stage, and to contribute to the overall integrity of scientific research and its published documentation. You may also be able to cite your work for the Journal as part of your professional development requirements for various Professional Societies and Organizations.

Plagiarism Policy:

Plagiarism is using someone else’s work without properly any acknowledgment or citation. This is considered publication misconduct as it involves close imitation or complete copying of someone’s data, ideas, figures, tables, complete or parts of paragraphs, language and images, etc.

Self-plagiarism or Text recycling refers to the author reusing their work without proper citation. This is also considered malpractice and creates duplication of the data in the academic literature.

When citing others’ (or your own) previous work, please make sure you have:

Mentioned the citations in your manuscript and acknowledged all the sources of your research.
Added all the references in Reference Section.
Obtained the copyright from people or publishers whose content has been relevantly used in your paper.

The editors and reviewers should notify the journal if plagiarism is identified. The Editorial Board will investigate any allegations or suspicions regarding plagiarism or self-plagiarism made to the journal.

If plagiarism is detected during the peer review process, the manuscript will be rejected, and if it is detected after publication, we will retract the paper.

Set Publishers reserve the right to inform the authors’ institutions about the detected plagiarism.

Publication Ethics & Malpractice Policy:

Set Publisher publishes peer-reviewed journals on various scientific disciplines. This statement explains ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article for its journals, i.e.: the author, the Editor in Chief, the peer-reviewer and the publisher. This statement is based on internationally accepted Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

DUTIES OF EDITORS

Decision on the Publication of Articles
The Editor in Chief of each Set Publisher Journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The Editor in Chief may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and subjected to such legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor in Chief may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play
Manuscripts shall be evaluated solely on their intellectual merit without regard to authors’ race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy.

Confidentiality
The Editor in Chief/editors and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest
Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used by anyone who has a view of the manuscript (while handling it) in his or her own research without the express written consent of the author.

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

Contribution of Peer Review
Peer review assists the Editor in Chief and the editorial board in making editorial decisions while editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness
Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the assigned manuscript or unable to provide a prompt review should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality
Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to, or discussed with, others except as authorized by the Editor in Chief.

Standards of Objectivity
Reviews should be conducted objectively. There shall be no personal criticism of the author. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that had been previously reported elsewhere should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the Editor in Chief’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Confidentiality
Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Conflict of Interest
Reviewers should not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

DUTIES OF AUTHORS

Reporting standards
Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behaviour and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention
Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such, if practicable, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism
Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others this must be appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple Publication
An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources
Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper
Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

Corresponding Author
Corresponding author is the author responsible for communicating with the journal for publication. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Acknowledgment of Funding Sources
Sources of funding for the research reported in the article should be duly acknowleged at the end of the article.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works
When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

Digital Data Archiving:

Set Publisher takes full responsibility for the online presence of each published article. To ensure the fulfilment of our commitment in cases of unforeseen events, the content of all journals has been deposited and archived in LOCKSS through the PKP Preservation Network.

Self Archiving

Self-archiving refers to the act posting a copy of the submitted (pre-print) version of the article online, at any time and without any charges.

Type of Article	Personal website	Non-commercial platforms	Commercial platforms
Original Manuscript	At any time	At any time	At any time
Accepted Version	After publication	After publication.	Cannot be posted*
Version of Record	Complete article cannot be posted. * Only the abstract along with its DOI can be shared.	Complete article cannot be posted. * Only the abstract along with its DOI can be shared.	Complete article cannot be posted. * Only the abstract along with its DOI can be shared.

*Unless the author has signed an agreement with Avanti Publishers and has been permitted to reuse the article.

Copyright & Licensing:

Copyright protection applies to any original work immediately after it is finalised, either published or unpublished. Due to this law, any content on this website, which may include pictures, tables, graphs, literary works, figures and videos etc, is copyrighted to Avanti Publishers. All material that is available on this website whether it is a research article or a simple logo should not be provided elsewhere without permission since this act is highly immoral.

After acceptance and publication of the article, the author transfers the copyright to the publisher but holds the following rights:

Authors' Rights:

They are permitted to use the work for non-commercial purposes only.
They can include their works in future meetings, presentations, thesis etc. without any commercial gain.
They can share their work (printed or digital copies) with the students, peers or colleagues for personal use or study purposes.
They are allowed to upload or post their pre-publication version on pre-print or personal websites but not without linking it to the definitive version on Avanti Publishers’ website.
If they detect plagiarism or copyright infringement of their work, they should immediately report it to the Avanti Publishers.

This policy allows us to protect all the original work and enhance our relationship with the authors. We add more value to their work by managing the subscription process, editing the manuscripts by seeking professional help only and making it available to the wider scientific community. Hence, the users are advised not to use the content on this website for any commercial purpose. Manuscripts can be downloaded and used for personal benefit only. Reproducing, republishing or redistributing the content commercially will violate our copyright policy.

Users should pertain to the above-mentioned terms and conditions otherwise abstain from using this site.

Licensing

All the published articles are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License(CC BY-NC 4.0) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.

Special Issues:

The Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences periodically publishes special issues focusing on specific themes, topics, or emerging areas of research within the scope of the journal. These special issues provide an opportunity for researchers, scholars, and practitioners to explore cutting-edge developments, share insights, and contribute to advancing knowledge in targeted areas of interest.

Call for Proposals:

We invite proposals for special issues from researchers, experts, and scholars interested in guest editing a thematic collection of articles. Special issue proposals should align with the aims and scope of the journal and demonstrate significance, originality, and relevance to the field. Each proposal should include a brief overview of the proposed theme, potential topics, and objectives, as well as information about the guest editors and their qualifications.

Submission Guidelines:

Authors interested in contributing to a special issue should follow the journal's standard submission guidelines outlined in the "Submissions" section. When submitting their manuscripts, authors should indicate that their submission is intended for consideration in the specific special issue.

Review Process:

All manuscripts submitted for inclusion in a special issue undergo the same rigorous peer review process as regular submissions to ensure high quality and scholarly rigor. Guest editors oversee the review process for their respective special issues, working closely with the journal's editorial team to manage submissions, select reviewers, and make publication decisions.

Publication Timeline:

Special issues follow a predefined publication timeline, which may vary depending on the specific theme and editorial schedule. Authors and guest editors will be informed of key milestones, including submission deadlines, review timelines, and expected publication dates, to facilitate timely and coordinated publication of the special issue.

Previous Special Issues:

Explore our archive of previous special issues (here) to discover past collections of articles addressing diverse topics and themes. These special issues represent collaborative efforts between guest editors, authors, reviewers, and the journal's editorial team to showcase the latest research and developments in specialized areas of interest.

For inquiries about proposing a special issue or submitting a manuscript to a current special issue, please contact the editorial office at info@setpublisher.com.

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