International Journal of Science and Healthcare Research follows guidelines issued by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) to handle cases of research and publication misconduct. This is necessary to maintain the integrity of all types of researches in the field of academics.
All the authors, editors, reviewers are encouraged to visit this website https://www.elsevier.com/editors/publishing-ethics for important information about publication ethics, which is very useful in preparation of manuscripts as per international standards.

We follow all the necessary steps to curb any type of malpractices in the field of research. All the authors, reviewers, editorial team members must support in our endeavor to stop any kind of malpractices. The journal has the retraction policy to retract the plagiarized articles even after publication to curb any types of misconducts in the field of research.
All the authors should declare statement about Conflict of Interest in the submitted articles. We follow the guidelines of The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), which states that authors should avoid signing any agreements with study sponsors, for-profit or non-profit, that interfere with the author's ability to access all of the study's data or with their ability to interpret data and publish manuscripts independently when they choose.
The journal follows the ethical standards of the Declaration of Helsinki. Therefore, approval of the ethics committee is necessary for experimental, clinical, and drug research, and such statement should be mentioned the Material and Method section of the manuscript. It is the author’s responsibility to protect the privacy of patients’ identities.

Policy on Publication Ethics
 

• Articles will be peer reviewed before publication in our journal.
• No manuscript with plagiarized content shall be considered for publication in our journal.
• Manuscript in our journal will not be published until authors submit copyright and consent form duly signed by all authors (co-authors).
• Manuscript without signed declaration on ‘Conflict of Interest’ by authors shall not be considered for publication in journal.
• Research work / clinical investigation involving patient participation, patient opinion, patient record, animal studies cannot be considered for publication in the journal without submission of Ethical Clearance Letter / Institutional Review Board’s report, informed consent, and other necessary documents if any.
• Reports of clinical trials and studies involving animals submitted to our journal for publication should be in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and Good Clinical Practice.
• Articles published in our journal cannot be reproduced in whole or in part (s) without written permission from editor/publisher. Proper citation should be mentioned for published article while referring it.

Peer Review Process

Our journal follows double blind peer review process. All articles are reviewed by potential reviewers. Journal editorial team takes final decision for the acceptance of the article after rigorous review process.

After receipt of manuscript from authors it passes from following stages:

• Submitted manuscript will be judged by editorial team member for suitability for publication on the basis of relevance and significance of article as well as interest to readers. Chief editor will take into consideration of all these factors after initial screening of the manuscript.
• Suitable manuscript after primary screening will be checked for plagiarism and grammatical errors. Use of available softwares to detect plagiarized content and grammatical errors in manuscript ensures more accuracy in this process.
• After successful passing this step, manuscript will be sent for double blind review process. Reviewers will submit review report after critical analysis of the manuscript.
• Review report and any modification will be analysed by concerned associate/assistant editors and will be communicated to chief/managing editor for his / her approval for publishing in journal.
• Review report with any modification/correction will be communicated to corresponding author after review process to make suggested changes in the manuscript.
• After entire review process, authors will be communicated about the decision of editorial team and if accepted, publication of corrected manuscript in journal and tentative date of publication.
• Whole review process ensures that identity of reviewers is kept confidential and should not be revealed to authors to maintain fair evaluation of manuscript.

Policy on Plagiarism

• The publisher/journal does not support any kind of plagiarism. Authors are fully responsible for plagiarism.
• The authors should ensure the originality of the work and if the authors have used the work of others, that must be appropriately cited in the submitted articles.
• The authors are instructed to take care of plagiarism before submitting their manuscript. Authors are advised not to submit plagiarised article.
• We check plagiarism with plagiarism checker software. Plagiarised articles will not be published in the journal.
• For more information on plagiarism, please visit www.plagiarism.org