Editorial Policies

Copyright and Licensing Policy

Copyright (c) International journal of health & medical sciences

IJHMS is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Publishing Rights

IJHMS allows its author(s) to retain publishing rights without restrictions for non-commercial purposes. Authors grant IJHMS a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.

Plagiarism policy

IJHMS follows a strong plagiarism policy. It ensures that none of the part of manuscript is plagiarized from other sources and proper reference is provided for all contents extracted from other sources.
All the papers submitted have to pass through an initial screening and will be checked through the Advanced Plagiarism Detection Software (CrossCheck by iThenticate).

Plagiarism is the copying of ideas, text, data and other creative work (e.g. tables, figures and graphs) and presenting it as original research without proper citation. Separate from the issue of plagiarism is the need for authors to obtain permission to reuse previously published work (even if properly cited) from the holder of the copyright (which is typically not the author).
It is essential that editors and reviewers be told by the authors when any portion of a paper is based heavily on previous work, even if this work has been written by one or more of the authors of the paper. It is the responsibility of the author not only to cite the previous work, including their own, but to provide an indication of the extent to which a paper depends on this work.

Correction, Retraction, Withdrawal policies

1. Corrections
   Correctional representative all have the need to produce clear and concise written directives for staff, wrongdoer, and the community. provided the issues of administrative liability, accreditation standards, case law, and the need to support professional behavior, written policy and procedure is a necessity. It is also the basis for staff supervision, training, and supporting a defense when things go wrong. Corrections are published in the subsequent issue under Corrections and addendum.
2. Retractions
   A retraction is a public statement made about an earlier statement that withdraws, cancels, refutes, or reverses the original statement or ceases and desists from publishing the original statement. The retraction may be initiated by the editors of a journal, or by the author(s) of the papers (or their institution). The editors will consult reviewers for their comments. The article will be retracted in cases such as multiple submission, plagiarism or fraudulent use of data. An alteration that changes the main point of the original statement is generally referred to as a retraction while an alteration that leaves the main point of a statement intact is usually referred to simply as a correction. Depending on the circumstances, either a retraction or correction is the appropriate remedy. IJHMS's retraction policy is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Please see https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction%20guidelines.pdf
3. Withdrawal Policy
   Few of the authors request withdrawal of manuscript from the publication process after submission or after publication. In some instances, the request for withdrawal is made when the manuscript is only a few days away from publication in the IJHMS. This may cause the time waste by the editors, reviewers, and the editorial staff. To withdraw an Article, a formal request has to be made by the Corresponding Author in the specified template. Withdrawn means that the article is archived in our database and not further acted upon. Articles which have not been published yet but represent early versions of articles, are discovered to be accidental duplicates of other published article(s), or are determined to violate our journal publishing ethics guidelines in the view of the editors may be “Withdrawn” from IJHMS group. If an Article is withdrawn from IJHMS, a penalty will be levied. That is a withdrawal within 10 days of submission, the author is allowed to withdraw the manuscript without paying any withdrawal fee, however, if authors withdraw manuscripts at any time after review and acceptance, a withdrawal fee will have to be paid USD 100.

• A penalty will be levied even if the Article is allowed to be withdrawn after its publication from IJHMS and the APC which has been paid for this Article shall also not be refunded.

Conflict of Interest 

All authors are requested to disclose any conflict of interest including honorarium, grants, membership, employment, ownership of stock or any other interest or non‐financial interest such as personal or professional relation, affiliation and knowledge of the research topic.