Digital ProScholar Media
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Editorial Mission
Journals published by Digital ProScholar Media take into consideration a wider range of articles such as reviews, original research articles, case presentations, editorials, letters to the editor. Reviews and specific articles are usually commissioned by the editorial office, but the usance is to analyze (prior to submission) any proposal from contributors, too. For more information about the journal mission, please see Aims and Scope of each journal.
Who Can Submit
Anyone may submit an original article to be considered for publication in provided he or she owns the copyright to the work being submitted or is authorized by the copyright owner or owners to submit the article. Authors are the initial owners of the copyrights to their works (an exception in the non-academic world to this might exist if the authors have, as a condition of employment, agreed to transfer copyright to their employer).
General Submission Rules
All articles published by Digital ProScholar Media are double blind peer-reviewed, according to the highest level of professional standards and ethics. This implies a good collaboration between authors, editors, reviewers and publisher.
Submitted articles cannot have been previously published, nor be forthcoming in an archival journal or book (print or electronic). Please note: "publication" in a working-paper series does not constitute prior publication. In addition, by submitting material to Journals of Digital ProScholar Media, the author is stipulating that the material is not currently under review at another journal (electronic or print) and that he or she will not submit the material to another journal (electronic or print) until the completion of the editorial decision process at Digital ProScholar Media. If you have concerns about the submission terms or procedure, please contact the editors.
Ethical Guidelines
We strongly recommend to all contributors to respect internationally accepted ethical standards related to publications. Contrary, the Editors reserve the right to reject the concerned paper on ethical grounds. Take into consideration the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics- Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations, the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (OASPA), and other similar international publishing standards. Digital ProScholar Media ensures that all journals comply with the:
Where appropriate, the informed consent must be obtained and mentioned by authors. Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should identify individuals who provide writing assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance. Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning.
When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Malpractice Statement
All articles published through Digital ProScholar Media are double blind peer-reviewed, according to the highest level of professional standards and ethics. This implies a good collaboration between authors, editors, reviewers and publisher.
All persons that are listed as authors on the paper accept that they have been directly implied in the main aspects related to the study and writing the paper, meeting the general criteria for authorship as declared by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Generally, an author has to fulfill at least three major conditions: that made a substantial contribution to the progress of the study, that written or revised essentially the manuscript, and that read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
The full responsibility for all presented data in the article belongs to authors. It is prohibited for authors to submit concomitantly the same manuscript to several journals, or a previously published paper. In addition, the corresponding author should guarantee that the submitted paper is original. Plagiarism (regardless the form) represents an unethical publishing practice that is unacceptable.
We strongly recommend to all contributors to respect internationally accepted ethical standards related to publications. For human studies it must be stated that the procedures were according to national ethical standards and with the Helsinki Declaration for Human Rights. All participating human subjects to the study must give the informed consent, the authors excluding any information that could lead to subject’s identification. In the case of animal experiments, it must be stated that national recommendations for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
All submitted manuscripts will be evaluated according to their intellectual content without regard to race, gender and sexual orientation, ethnic origin/ citizenship, political and religious affiliation of the authors. Members of Editorial Board must not disclose any data related to a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, and the publisher. The editor must recuse him/herself in any possible situation of conflict of interest with authors and/ or their institutions. Unpublished/ rejected papers must not be used by any member of Editorial Board. The editor has the right in respect to final decision (on whether to accept or reject an article) according to relevance for the journal, clarity, originality, and reviewers comments.
Reviewers assist the Editors-in-Chief in taking editorial decisions and, if the case, also assist the author(s) in improving the manuscript quality. Reviewer comments must be objectively, personal criticism of the contributors being inacceptable. Any article received for review will be considered a confidential document, which means that it must not be presented/ discussed with others. A reviewer must recuse him/herself in any possible situation of conflict of interest with authors and/ or their institutions.
Formatting Requirements
Digital ProScholar Media recommends to authors to verify - prior to submission - the general rules related to formatting requirements of scientific articles. For details, please go to: Instructions for Authors. Although can provide limited technical support, it is ultimately the responsibility of the author to produce an electronic version of the article as a high-quality Word or RTF file that can be converted to a PDF file.
It is understood that the current state of technology of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is such that there are no, and can be no, guarantees that documents in PDF will work perfectly with all possible hardware and software configurations that readers may have.
Peer review process
Editorial Board evaluates the quality of submitted papers using the peer review process, an integral part of scientific publishing. Each final response is supervised by Editor(s) in Chief, based on preliminary editorial evaluation and reviewer’s comments. The role of journal editors in reviewing and approving published materials is complete, editor(s) in chief being integrally responsible for delegating tasks to editorial members, managing submission, peer review process, and final decision for each manuscript.
Any submitted paper undergoes a preliminary editorial evaluation that verifies the minimal requirements. In this stage articles can be rejected due to poor grammar or English language, lack of proper structure (do not provide enough details/ materials and methods to allow other scientists to repeat the study, lack of up-to-date references, etc.), are outside the aims and scope of the journal or having no new science (does not clearly explain which parts of the findings are new science, versus what was already known). To avoid any delay or rejection due to such reasons, please see: Instructions for Authors before submission. Authors of manuscripts rejected at this stage will usually be informed within two weeks of receipt.
Articles that meet the minimum criteria are normally passed on to at least two expert referees (selected according to their expertise) for reviewing. The referees remain anonymous to the authors, and the identity of the authors is unknown to the reviewers. Referees are asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is original and methodologically adequate (materials and methods, statistical data), has results which are clearly presented and support the conclusions, presents correct and exhaustive references (related to previous relevant work), that contributes to the knowledge and development of the field respecting appropriate ethical guidelines (especially/ but not necessarily limited to plagiarism).
Referees advise the Chief Editor, who is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article. If decision implies a revision, this must be made by authors according to received comments. Perform/ address all points raised by reviewers and editor, highlighting the changes and additions in the text (with a different color text, or with Microsoft Word's Track Changes feature). Contrary, provide a scientific rebuttal to points or comments you disagree, describing all these revisions in a response letter. Your revision must be returned within the time period the editor tells you.
Erratum and retraction. Sometimes the authors want to update the published article(s). We strongly encourage authors to submit updates either as a new manuscript or as a letter to the editor. When scientific misconduct is alleged, or concerns are otherwise raised about the conduct or integrity of work described in submitted or published papers, the editor should initiate appropriate procedures detailed by such committees such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). When a possible error is detected after the publication, a distinct erratum will be published as a new article, citing the original article and correcting the error. If there are serious errors in an article and these errors would modify / invalidate the findings and conclusions presented, the article is re-evaluated and may need to be withdrawn.
Rights for Authors
Digital ProScholar Media publishes peer reviewed journals, online and open access, no charges being received for submission, review, and publication of articles. All published articles may be freely downloaded and used by anyone from anywhere, for scientific purposes. The journal adheres to the philosophy that high quality, original ideas and information should be readily accessible and freely shared within and amongst the scientific community.
Attribution and Usage Policies
Our journals are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which means that the content published in any journal (articles, conferences, book reviews, etc.) can be downloaded/ used only for non-commercial purposes, without to be modified in any way and specifying the original source. All accepted papers are published free, open access, according to CC-BY-NC-ND license. People seeking an exception or have questions about use, should Contact Us.
General Terms and Conditions of Use
Users of the website and/or software agree not to misuse the service or software in any way. The failure of to exercise or enforce any right or provision in the policies or the Submission Agreement does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any term of the Submission Agreement or these policies is found to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Submission Agreement and these policies remain in full force and effect. These policies and the Submission Agreement constitute the entire agreement between and the Author(s) regarding submission of the Article.
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