The journal broadly follows the recommendations on publication Ethics policies for medical journals by the WAME Publication Ethics committee
All the authors are requested to kindly check the originality of their articles
before submitting it to IJNMR to pre-empt rejection.
The Journal strictly discourages publication misdemeanor. This includes in the following but not limited to it:
- Submission of Duplicate articles
- Fabrication and falsification of data
- Plagiarism and improprieties of authorship
- Misappropriation of the ideas of others
- Violation of generally accepted research practices
- Material not in compliance with legislative and regulatory norms affecting research
- Inappropriate behaviour
Responses to possible misconduct
At ANY STAGE
of processing of your article, following actions can
be taken :
- Rejection of article
- Non-refund of processing, publication or any other fee
- Responses will be undertaken and chosen in accordance with the apparent magnitude of the misconduct
- All allegations of misconduct will be referred to the Editor-In-Chief, who will review the circumstances in consultation with the executive editors
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If your conduct is found to be grossly unacceptable i.e.
submission of duplicate articles, the author will be blacklisted
in IJNMR and its sister journals
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Letter of conduct will be posted to the
Head/Director
of the department from where the study was conducted.
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List of blacklisted authors will be shared with the
Chief Editors of other Indian Journals
We have been screening articles for plagiarism. However we reject article only if found
unclean. This more stern action is being taken because of the unscrupulous behavior
of handful a of authors involved in unethical practives. The screening
and taking decision on such articles incurs huge cost in terms of time and resources of the journal.
It directly delays the process of genuine articles.
Hope you will help us to maintain the reputation of IJNMR.
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