PUBLICATION ETHICS
JPCBS is committed to ensuring highest ethical standards in publication and quality of articles.
In order to maintaining standard of publications Authors, Editors, Reviewers should maintain following principles:
Author’s Responsibility
During the submission authors should ensure that they are submitting their original works. And also that any work or words of other authors or sources has been appropriately cited, credited and referenced. All authors should disclose financial or other conflict of interest (financial support for the project should be disclosed). Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent submission is considered unethical and is therefore unacceptable. Before submission the corresponding author should confirm that the final version of the paper is approved by all co-authors and submission to JPCBS is a full consensus of all co-authors.
Editor's Responsibility
Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit. An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Editors should take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper.
The editor-in-chief of the JPCBS is responsible for the selection of article for publication or Rejection. The decision is based on the recommendation and review report of the journal's editorial board members and reviewers. The editors must ensure the confidentiality of the submitted works until they are published, (not responsible in case of multiple submission by the authors in several journals). In case of Rejection of the paper by editors, the manuscript or its content should not be used for any purposes without the written consent of the author. The editors can ignore any material that breaks legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.
Reviewer's Responsibility
The reviewers of JPCBS assist the editor in chief in taking the decision of publishing a submitted manuscript. Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Information and ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not to used for personal advantage. In reviews reports observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments, so that authors can use them for improving the paper. Reviewers who feels unqualified to review the work or the work is outside the reviewer’s specialized area or reviewer is unable to review the work within the specified period should immediately notify the editor in chief. Reviewers should maintain strictly the confidentiality of the submitted work and should not use the content or its information for personal advantage. The reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
Statement on Plagiarism
JPCBS has zero tolerance to plagiarism in any aspect of the publications. If any person finds plagiarism in the content of any article of JPCBS, they may directly contact the corresponding author and/or the Editor in Chief. After receiving the complaint from the third party on the plagiarism by the authors, the complaint will be forwarded to the corresponding author and will request to respond to the complaint. If the authors failed to acknowledge the issues or upon non-satisfactory explanations, the authors may be banned from publishing further in JPCBS and/or may retract that particular troubled article. Also the publisher may intimate the misconduct of the author to the respective academic/research institute to which the author(s) belongs to.
Declaration
Journal of Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Biological Sciences (JPCBS) or its publisher does not assumes any liability or responsibility for the accuracy,completeness or usefulness of any information provided in the JPCBS and shall not therefore they be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages arising out of the use of the informations provided in the articles published in the JPCBS. The views expressed by our contributing authors are not necessarily those of JPCBS editorial staff. The respective individual author(s) are responsible for the facts and views expressed in their articles.
