Our aim for these guidelines remains to support all those involved in scholarly publishing with a summary of best practice guidance with respect to research integrity and publishing ethics from leading organizations around the world.
No fees or charges are required for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials.
Publication fees : none.
Submission fees : none.
Authors are obliged, for all materials submitted, to participate in a peer review process and to follow publication conventions.
All authors are obliged to make the requested changes and correct mistakes. When changes are asked for, the authors have a certain timeline for submitting their modifications. In each case, the authors and reviewers will come to a common understanding of the deadline, based on the nature and quantity of the requested changes.
The research being reported in articles must be conducted in an ethical and responsible manner
Authors must be aware of and refrain from engaging in scientific misconduct and by breaching publishing
ethics
Authors should provide appropriate authorship and acknowledgement. Authors must refrain from deliberately
misrepresenting a scientist’s relationship with published work. All authors must have significantly contributed
to the research. Contributors who have made less substantial contributions to the research or to the publication
can be acknowledged, but should not be identified as authors.
Authors must tell the Journal when they have a direct or indirect conflict of interest with editors or members
of the Editorial board or International scientific committee.
If the authors intend to reproduce their article in other publications or for any other purpose and by any
means, they must obtain the written authorization of the editorial board.
Authors are obliged, for all materials submitted, to participate in a peer review process and to follow
publication conventions.
This journal employs a double-blind review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor. The editor is solely and independently responsible for selecting, processing, and deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal meet the editorial goals and could thus be published. Each paper considered suitable is sent to three independent peer reviewers who are experts in their field and able to assess the specific qualities of the work. The editor is responsible for the final decision regarding whether or not the paper is accepted or rejected.
Editors who make final decisions about manuscripts should withdraw from editorial decisions if they have conflicts of interest or relationships that pose potential problems concerning articles under consideration. The responsibility of the final decision regarding publication will be attributed to an editor who does not have any conflicts of interest.
Each article submitted is the responsibility of one member of the editorial board or of the international
scientific committee, who undertakes to have it evaluated by three peers who are experts in the field and who
evaluate it anonymously.
Reviewed articles are treated confidentially by editorial board members, members of the internal scientific
committee, and reviewers.
Members of the editorial board and internal scientific committee shall try to prevent misconduct by informing
authors and reviewers about the ethical conduct required of them.
Members of the editorial board, scientific committee, and reviewers are asked to be aware of all types of
misconduct in order to identify papers where research misconduct of any kind has or seems to have occurred and
deal with the allegations accordingly.
The intellectual property and copyright on the original content of all scientific contributions shall remain with
the authors.
The authors shall guarantee the originality of their material and shall not publish any text that would appear
to contravene, in any way.
Plagiarism and false or intentionally misleading declarations constitute behavior that is at odds with the
ethics of scientific publication ; as such, they are deemed unacceptable.
No significant part of the article shall have been previously published either as an article or as a chapter, or
be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Reproduction of extracts of publications is possible provided that the authors cite their source and have
obtained explicit permission from the rights holders, which permission shall not be unduly withheld. Reference
must be given to the title of the article, the journal, the author(s), date and place of publication.
Members of the Editorial board and reviewers shall withdraw in any case of conflict of interest concerning an author or authors, or the content of a manuscript to be evaluated.
The names of authors, reviewers, and collaborators along with the names of their organizations and institutional affiliations, which the Journal may record in the course of its operations, shall remain confidential and shall not be used for any commercial or public ends beyond the signature of the articles published.
Guiding Principles for Authentic Publication in International Journal
The Nursing Journal of India (NJI) is a bi- monthly, open access, peer reviewed international journal which Calls for Unique, Unpublished research papers in various subjects of Nursing,Allied Health Sciences,many other streams of knowledge. Nursing Journal of India (NJI) is known for the publication of unique and authentic research articles which truly considers the copyright guidelines and to protect the rights of our authors. The research papers are written by scholars after in-depth study and wish to protect the rights of use. Our dedicated team of scientists and academicians help and improve research work with cutting edge forefront innovations by avoiding plagiarism. Most of the authors represent some institutions or are guides to budding scholars and their original research work will be the base for further studies. Infringing the content of knowledge or work of other scholars will be harm to the community of education.
All submitted research articles are assessed by our Review board and Editorial board members utilizing twofold dazzle associate evaluation process so as to avoid plagiarism. Nursing Journal of India (NJI) set quality standards for the acceptance of appropriate and most effective research articles. It expects from authors that they will check their compositions for written falsification test and determine they are submitting just extraordinary content for publication.
Responsibility of Authors
Expected Quality
• It is clearly advised to the authors to avoid copy and paste tactic of writing articles.
• Articles should maintain its durability and excelling ability to attract its target intellectuals to refer it for further studies.
• Articles must showcase novelty in thoughts and content.
• Creditability and reliability of the content establishes the best publication ethics.
• Formatting standards should be maintained in piece of publication so that it could be sufficient informative about the research and profile of authors.
• Appropriate Citations, referencing of individual articles, authors and publications are expected while writing articles.
• Nursing Journal of India (NJI) provides sufficient foundation for the timely publication of high quality and standard piece of research articles
• Nursing Journal of India (NJI) follow transparent and peer-review process for publications. Authors must agree to participate in the peer-review process
Novelty and Plagiarism
• Authors are expected to present the entirely original piece and should cite or mention in references if content or words of other articles are used.
• Every author will be held responsible for the performance and fulfilment with the policy to avoid malpractices and breach of ethical standards of publication.
• Authors should assure that the piece of knowledge ready for publication is original copy and have not been published anywhere earlier and is not in consideration for publication anywhere else.
• Authors should accept and correct the mistakes and consider the suggestions given by the panel of reviewers.
• Authors should bring in knowledge of editor the corrections and retraction of mistakes or error if have identified even after publication.