Peer Review Process
We follow double blinded peer review process. In this process the author’s names
and affiliations will not be exposed to Editors and Reviewers and authors are also
kept blinded from Reviewer information.
Responsibilities
After receiving manuscript from Editorial Board, Reviewer should respond
whether he/she considering the manuscript or not in a couple of days, based on
his/her expertise. After accepting the manuscript, reviewer could provide his/her
decisions as below after completing peer review process to editorial office.
(i) Accepted – If the manuscript is completely relevant and well written.
(ii) Rejected – If the manuscript is irrelevant.
(iii) Need to sent Revision – If any minor corrections to be done for manuscript.
1. Reviewer must not be biased and transparent in his decision
2. Reviewer should provide the decisions on time line i.e., one week after
accepting the manuscript.
3. Reviewer should respect the confidentiality of the information of manuscript
till it gets published.
4. Final decision in accepting/ rejecting of the manuscript is solely decided by
Chief-Editor of the journal.
5. .For any conflicts with manuscript/ authors/ editors he/she should contact
editorial office.
6. We kindly welcome reviewer’s suggestions to develop the journal.
Copyright
Copyrights for articles published in APIMRJ are retained by the authors, with first
publication rights granted to the journal. The journal/publisher is not responsible
for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author’s responsibility to bring an
infringement action if so desired by the author.