About the Journal

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences (JABAAS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access, quarterly journal that started publishing activity in 2023 encompassing biological sciences in general agriculture and allied & applied biological sciences. (JABAAS) deals with interactions among the components of agricultural systems, biotechnology, and forensic sciences. The journal is headed by a panel of experienced editors who are experts in the field of different areas of biological sciences. Manuscripts submitted to JABAAS generally cover biological sciences in general.

Open access journal ISSN 3048-6599 (Online)

Publisher: INSTITUTE OF TRANSGEN LIFE SCIENCES, 103, BRINDABAN VIHAR, KALYANPUR BAHADURPUR, UNITY CITY CHAURAHA, LUCKNOW 226022
Registered society under UP Govt act 21, 1860, registration no is 3041-2008-2009

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CHIEF-EDITOR

Prof. S. M. BHATT
IIMT University Department of BIOTECHNOLOGY AND Biosciences's
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PLAGIARISM & PROOFREADING

Every article is checked with cross-ref/Turnitin for a plagiarism check as per UGC guidelines. Permitted plag limit is 10-16% AS PER ugc GUIDELINE

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INDEXING

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The following are some guidelines for the editorial board members:
Content Provision: Editorial board members should contribute to and liaise with other members in developing the Journal’s content.
Communications: They should clearly communicate new policies and guidelines to authors and reviewers, and liaison clearly with the editorial office.
Feedback: They should provide constructive, fair, and timely feedback to authors.
Promotion: They should promote the reputation of the journal within the academic community.
Confidentiality: Should be observed and protected with respect to individual data
Integrity: It should result in integrity regarding the published work.

Qualification’s for editorial board members, such as:
Academic credentials: A Ph.D. or equivalent in a relevant field
Publication record: A substantial and impactful publication record
Reviewing experience: A history of actively reviewing manuscripts
Commitment to ethical standards: A strong commitment to upholding ethical standards

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Role: Giving advice and supporting the Editor that is responsible for the particular Journal content.

Specific Areas of Responsibility

Editorial Board members will work closely with the Journal Editor and sub-editors. Close working may also be required with the Director of Publications, the Head of Publications, the Website content manager, and the Staff Editors.

Editorial Board members – General Guidelines for all members

All Editorial Board member are required to submit at least 4 manuscripts per annum.
Editors undertake full responsibility of the entire content of the Journal.
Contribute, manage, and co-ordinate with other board members for the successful content development of the Journal.
Communicate new policies and guidelines to the reviewers and authors.
Always maintain clear and steady communication with the editorial office.
Integrity for the published work should be assured.
Protect individual data and maintain confidentiality.
The contributing authors will expect constructive, fair and timely feedback which must be given to them by Editorial Board members.
The Journal’s reputation among the academic community should be promoted.

Associate Editor

One-year renewable term subject to performance review.

Qualification criteria for Associate Editor Board member

Academic rank above Assistant professor or equivalent.
30-50 publications in National or International peer reviewed journals.
Expected to know the policies of the Journal and publisher, Author guidelines, Editor Guidelines and Reviewer guidelines.

Roles & Responsibilities of the Associate Editor

Guide the Authors, Editors and Reviewers as per Journal guidelines on the website.
Submission of high quality articles for the Journal and monitor for high quality consistency.
Monitor uniformity of writing style, language, and presentation as per Journal’s specificity.
Effective peer review process and timely publication.
Ensure Journal content quality and integrity.
Check for manuscript plagiarism and publication duplication in other Journal.
Suggest new policies for the development of the Journal.
Suggest eminent peer review persons.
Take up the role of Editor-in-chief if he/she is not available.
Assist seniors to preserve high quality Journal content.
Promote the goodwill of the Journal to Authors, Editorial Board members, readers, and publishers.

Editorial Board Member

Two- year renewable term subject to performance review.
Criteria for Editorial Board Member

Academic rank above Associate Professor or equivalent.
40-60 publications in National or International peer reviewed articles / journals.

Roles and Responsibilities of Editorial Board Member

Encourage high quality papers submission.
Assist the Editor-in-Chief in manuscript acceptance process.
Assist the Editor-in-Chief and involve in the peer review process.
Assist the Editor-in-Chief in setting annual objectives and assign responsibilities for peer review process for timely completion.
Taking decisions and communicating with other Board members.
Serve in the review process and ensure high quality publication in the Journal.
Provide feedback to the contributors, Editors and Reviewers.
Promoting new policies when introduced.
Check for manuscript plagiarism and publication duplication in other Journal.
Support the Editor-in-Chief in ethical issue management, complaints and appeals pertaining to the publication standards.
Suggest new policies for the development of the Journal.
Editor Board member should view themselves as possible candidates for being the next Editor-in-Chief.

Editor-in-Chief

Two-year renewable term subject to performance review.

Criteria to become Editor-in-Chief

Academic rank above Professor or equivalent.
75-100 publications in National or International peer reviewed articles.

Roles and Responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief

The Editor-in-Chief should guarantee the quality and integrity of the Journals content.
To educate and communicate the vision of the Journal to the authors, readers, editorial board members and publisher.
Enhance quality and elevate the significance of published articles.
Take whole responsibility of the Journal. Should possess extensive Editorial experience and good interpersonal skills. They should know the subject, research design, statistics, publication ethics and standards.
Develop the Journal by encouraging quality article submission.
Suggest further improvisations with additional policies pertaining to the Journal.
Give Editorials on the Journal’s performance to encourage submission of quality articles.
Select and rotate Editorial Board members, maintain Journal development, and participate in the review process.
Creative annual objectives of peer review process and periodic publications. Assess the performance of Board members and promote deserving editors fairly. Troubleshoot areas to improve the objectives that are not achieved timely.
Make recommendations to the Editorial office promptly regarding manuscript submission outcomes.
The Editor-in-Chief gives the final approval to either accept or reject an article.
Check for manuscript plagiarism and publication duplication in other Journal.
Support the publisher in handling complaints and appeals regarding publication of any duplicate or fraudulent work.

Note: 4-5 manuscripts each year are expected to be reviewed by members. Failing this, editors will be deposed from the Editorial Board as per the Editorial policy. The Editorial office reserves the right to alter this criteria based on the Journal under consideration.

KINDLY DOWNLAOD REVIEWER FORM and send back to editor@jabaas.com after review, keep it confidential and take your time read some paper and evaluate with quality, journal style specially FIG Table References.

Peer Review Process

This journal follows double blind review method preserving the reciprocal academic appreciation, respect and impartiality between authors and reviewers.

The peer review process:

A designated member of the editorial board will make an initial assessment about the quality and suitability of a submission in terms of scope, originality and plagiarism. This assessment it allows our qualified reviewers a better usage of their time and resources. Paper written within the guidelines regarding the structure of the paper is thus very important.
Once the designated internal editorial board member is satisfied about the suitability of a submission, it is sent to two anonymous peer reviewers for their comment.
The reviewer will assign marks and make comment about following six categories:

– Originality of the paper

– The value of the research question and research gap.

– The soundness of the conceptual and technical or methodological framework.

– Insightful discussion in result and discussion section

– The policy implications of the paper

– Academic writing quality.

The decision/remarks/suggestions will be communicated to the author(s).

Data Sharing and Availability Policy

Data Sharing and Availability Policy

Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences is committed to a more open research landscape, facilitating faster and more effective research discovery by enabling reproducibility and verification of data, methodology and reporting standards.

We encourage authors of articles published in our journal to share their research data including, but not limited to: raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, methods, materials. These can be submitted as supplementary data or can be shared as per submission guidelines of Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences

Authors will have to certify that the database generated and/or analysed during their current study incorporated in their manuscripts are not publicly available due to privacy and confidentiality agreements as well as other restrictions, but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request, as per standard guidelines of ethical publication.

Policy of Conflict of Interest

For Authors:

All manuscripts for articles, including the original research data based articles, reviews, editorials, perspectives, comments and letters that are submitted to Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences. must be accompanied by a conflict of interest disclosure statement or a declaration by the authors that they do not have any conflicts of interest to declare. All articles that are published in the journal must be accompanied by this conflict of interest disclosure statement or a statement that the authors have replied that they have no conflicts of interest to declare.

To facilitate this policy, all authors must privately disclose ‘ALL their potential conflicts of interest’ to the editor of Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences . at the time of submission. Authors should also disclose any conflict of interest that may have influenced either the conduct or the presentation of the research to the editors, including but not limited to close relationships with those who might be helped or hurt by the publication, academic interests and rivalries, and any personal, religious or political convictions relevant to the topic at hand.

Type of Declaration

If you are submitting your article to Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences. make a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’, please include such a declaration at the end of your manuscript, following any acknowledgments and prior to the references, under the heading ‘Conflict of Interest Statement’.

If no declaration is made, the following will be printed under this heading in your article: ‘None

Declared’. Alternatively, you may wish to state that ‘The author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.

PLAGIARISM POLICY

according to Oxford University Dictionary, plagiarism is defined as using some ones else’s ideas, words, data, or other material produced by them without acknowledgement. It is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and representing them as one’s own original work and Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences condemns all forms of plagiarism, following a very strict and vigilant policy of removing this malady. Within the academia, it is considered dishonesty or fraud and offenders are subject to academic censure.

Plagiarism can be unintentional or intentional, reproducing academic material without appropriate credit to the original authors (Citations / References). Similarly self -plagiarism is the re-use of significant, identical or near identical portions of one’s own work without citing the original work. This is also known as recycling fraud. Worst form of plagiarism is to steal the whole article from some journal and publish it under one’s own name in another journal.

Plagiarism, fabrication, unethical or redundant publication grossly violates the editorial policies of Biosc Biotech Res Comm. which follows best practice guidelines given by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as mentioned in the Instructions for Authors of Biosc Biotech Res Comm.

All authors submitting their MS to Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences must complete and sign the ethical statement form and append the Plagiarism Check Certificate of their MS along with copy-right form failing which, their MS will not be processed further.

The Editorial Committee of Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences will take appropriate action against any author found to be guilty of intentional plagiarism or exceeding the standard limits of plagiarism / similarity levels of the text matter in their MS. The name of author(s) committing plagiarism or using similar text without appropriate citations will also be disseminated to concerned authorities.

We do not tolerate plagiarism in any of our publications, and we reserve the right to check all submissions through appropriate plagiarism checking tools. Submissions containing suspected plagiarism, in whole or part, will be rejected. If plagiarism is discovered post publication, we will follow our guidance outlined in the Retractions, Corrections and Expressions of Concern section of these guidelines. We expect our readers, reviewers and editors to raise any suspicions of plagiarism, either by contacting the relevant editor or by emailing at editor@jabaas.com

Ethical Issues

On Ethical Issues:

Animal and Human Studies

Ethical declarations in research form an integral part during the submission process of a manuscript to a journal. Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications, requires that the experimental conditions under which animal and human assays and tests are performed are as per standard protocols used worldwide.

Authors must make it clear in writing that the procedures they used were as humane as possible and have been compiled with the guidelines for animal care of their institutions or with national / international guidelines. Studies on animals must comply with the prevailing standards of animal welfare according to Indian Council of Medical Research Guidelines or Committee for the Purpose of Control & Supervision of Experiments on Animals ( CPCSEA ) in India, and likewise following similar conditions elsewhere, (Ethical Approval Committees/ Institutional Review Board with Approval Number is necessary).For details of animal studies please see : ARRIVE and Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

Studies involving human subjects / patients / and also if the manuscript includes case reports / case series, authors need to provide the following: Name of the Ethical Committees /Institutional review Board, they have obtained consent from along with approval number /ID. Authors should specifically mention that the study was in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 (Human Research: Helsinki Declaration as revised in 2013, SCARE criteria etc ).

Human Studies: Ethical Standards and Informed Consent

++For studies involving human subjects and volunteers, please indicate in the manuscript, in a section preceding the References, the following statement or an analogous statement that applies to your situation: “All 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 Human research: Helsinki Declaration as revised in 2013.

Case Reports: Case Reports should be followed as per the guidelines of SCARE criteria

Informed consent should be obtained from all patients for being included in the study.” If any identifying information about participants is included in the article, the following sentence should also be included: “Additional informed consent was obtained from all individuals for whom identifying information is included in this article.” If you have not included or cannot include this statement in your manuscript, please provide the reason or an alternative statement here and in the manuscript.

Disclosure of Interest

Authors must provide details of any financial or personal relationships that might bias the work being submitted. In a section of text preceding the References, please provide relevant information for each author(s) with regard to any conflicts of interest. All submissions must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest.

Acknowledgement of sources:

Proper acknowledgement of the work of others must always be given. Funding acknowledgement must be properly made with grant details, number etc.

Data access and retention: Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data.

Research Ethics Policies

Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences has adopted publication policies to ensure that ethical and responsible original research, demonstrating academic quality and scientific rigor is published in it, and that all necessary consents and approvals as peer standard norms have been obtained from its authors from respective authorities to publish their research work. These publication policies follow the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follow COPE workflows for investigating allegations of research misconduct in case of any issue.

Contacting The Journal With Concerns About Published Material

Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences is dedicated to correcting errors in the scientific literature –be they errors in data, statistical analysis or of an ethical nature– and to do so within a reasonable timeframe, in line with COPE guidelines. As such, please send concerns with all necessary details about Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences published material directly to the editor@jabaas.com

Ethical Considerations Regarding Article Submission

Submission of a manuscript by the authors to Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications will be taken to indicate that

The content of the manuscript is original and that it has not been published or accepted for publication elsewhere, either in whole or in part, other than as short abstracts, communications or conference proceedings, (we have an ethical statement and author certificate / form in this regard)

No part of the manuscript is currently under consideration for publication elsewhere;

All authors have seen and have approved the final version of the submitted manuscript, and have signed the ethical statement form.

Authors have, if necessary, obtained permission to publish from their employers or institutions and have appended the statement in the MS.

Permission has been obtained to use any copyrighted material, such as reproducing a figure from another article, in print and electronic forms, and that the source of the material has been acknowledged; and all images have not been manipulated outside the CLIP principle

Allegations that these principles have not been adhered to will be investigated according to COPE flowchart.

Conflicts of Interest:

Authors

Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications requires that all its authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author’s objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript.

If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this in their submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission as per guidelines of COPE and ICMJE.

Conflicts of Interest:

Editorial Team of Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences

The editorial team members of Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences are expected to adhere to a conflict of interest code of conduct, as follows:

Editors and Senior Editors will refrain from involvement in editorial activities for work they have been involved in as an author, or for work from an organization of which they are an employee, advisor, shareholder or have some other close relationship with.

Editors and Senior Editors will always declare their conflicts of interest when acting as an author of editorials or other pieces in the journal as is required for other authors.

Editors and Senior Editors will declare a conflict of interest if invited to oversee or otherwise contribute to the review of a submitted paper.

Conflicts of interest statement, is published on the journals Website

Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences Instructions to Authors

For individual articles undergoing peer review, where a conflict of interest exists within the editorial team, the Editor will excuse themselves from handling the manuscript.

Funding

Authors should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgements section with Grant No date and awardee. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. For papers where no conflicts of interest or funding are declared, a default statement is added to that paper, as “ This work research did not receive any funding”.

Authorship

The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and how. All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to the following criteria:

Have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;

Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content;

Given final approval of the version to be published. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content; and

Agreed to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resol

Contributions from anyone who does not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed, with permission from the contributor, in an Acknowledgments section (for example, to recognize contributions from people who provided technical help, collation of data, writing assistance, acquisition of funding, or a department chairperson who provided general support). Prior to submitting the article all authors should agree on the order in which their names will be listed in the manuscript.

Additional authorship options: Joint first or senior authorship: In the case of joint first authorship, a footnote should be added to the author listing, e.g. ‘X and Y should be considered joint first author’ or ‘X and Y should be considered joint senior author.’Authorship disputes are investigated using COPE flowcharts.

ORCID

As part of Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences commitment to supporting authors at every step of the publishing process, the journal requires the submitting corresponding author (only) to provide an ORCID iD of all its authors, when submitting a manuscript. Find more information here.

Dual Publication and Plagiarism

Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences Senior Editors, Editors and peer reviewers play an important role in identifying misconduct and regularly updated on identifying possible data fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, image manipulation, unethical research, biased reporting, authorship abuse, redundant or duplicate publication, and undeclared conflicts of interest.

Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts, MS with more than 15 % similarity levels or accidental plagiarism are returned to the authors for rectification at the initial stages of pre submission checks. All MS must be checked for similarity levels using iThenticate’s CrossCheck software and submit a certificate thereof (Ethical Statement Plagiarism level check report.

Plagiarism allegations –in both submitted and published articles– are investigated using the relevant COPE flowcharts. See more here.

Data Retention, storage and Sharing Policies

Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications expects authors to keep the data used in their publications for a considerable period of time, and it reserves the right to ask authors for all of their data in cases of allegations research or publication misconduct. A statement in this regard has to be appended by the authors submitting their MS to Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications after the sections of Acknowledgements before References.

Data Sharing and Availability Policy

We encourage authors of articles published in our journal to share their research data including, but not limited to: raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, methods, materials. These can be submitted as supplementary data or can be shared as per submission guidelines Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences

Retractions, Corrections and Expressions of Concern

Corrections, retractions and expressions of concern are published because the journal has an obligation to ensure the accuracy of the research it publishes. Please see COPE guidelines here for policy on retractions, and expressions of concern.Corrections, retractions and expressions of concern are published in a timely fashion, after a thorough, timely, and fair investigation following COPE flowcharts.

Withdrawing Articles

Submission of an article to Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences implies that the work has NOT been published or submitted elsewhere, therefore, the journal is strongly against unethical withdrawal of an article from the publication process after submission.

Once the article is submitted, it is the absolute right of the editorial board to decide on article withdrawals. For genuine withdrawal, the corresponding author should submit a request which must be signed by all co-authors explaining the explicit reasons of withdrawing the manuscript.

Accepted articles in final stages of publication if are withdrawn, will entail withdrawal fees. The request will be processed by the editorial board and only serious genuine reasons will be considered if possible. The decision of the editorial board will be final and not negotiable. Unethical withdrawal or no response from the authors to editorial board communication will be subjected to sanction a ban to all authors, and their institute will also be notified.

It is a general principle of scholarly communications that the editor of a journal is solely and independently responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal shall be published. In making this decision the editor is guided by policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. An outcome of this principle is the importance of the scholarly archive as a permanent, historic record of the transactions of scholarship.

Articles that have been published shall remain extant, exact and unaltered as far as is possible. However, very occasionally circumstances may arise where an article is published that must later be retracted or even removed. Such actions must not be undertaken lightly and can only occur under exceptional circumstances. In all cases, official archives of our journal will retain all article versions, including retracted or otherwise removed articles.

This policy has been designed to address these concerns and to take into account current best practice in the scholarly and library communities. As standards evolve and change, we will revisit this issue and welcome the input of scholarly and library communities. See also the National Library of Medicine’s policy on retractions and the recommendations of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) concerning corrections and retractions.

Article Withdrawal

Only used for Articles in Press which represent early versions of articles and sometimes contain errors, or may have been accidentally submitted twice. Occasionally, but less frequently, the articles may represent infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Articles in Press (articles that have been accepted for publication but which have not been formally published and will not yet have the complete volume/issue/page information) that include errors, or 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 (such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like), may be withdrawn. Withdrawn means that the article content (HTML and PDF) is removed and replaced with a HTML page and PDF simply stating that the article has been withdrawn according to the Policies on Article in Press Withdrawal with a link to the current policy document.

Article Retraction

Infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Occasionally a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication. The retraction of an article by its authors or the editor under the advice of members of the scholarly community has long been an occasional feature of the learned world. Standards for dealing with retractions have been developed by a number of library and scholarly bodies, and this best practice is adopted for article retraction by us.

A retraction note titled “Retraction: [article title]” signed by the authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated part of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list. In the electronic version, a link is made to the original article. The online article is preceded by a screen containing the retraction note. It is to this screen that the link resolves; the reader can then proceed to the article itself. The original article is retained unchanged save for a watermark on the .pdf indicating on each page that it is “retracted.”The HTML version of the document is removed.

Article Removal: Legal Limitations

In an extremely limited number of cases, it may be necessary to remove an article from the online database. This will only occur where the article is clearly defamatory, or infringes others’ legal rights, or where the article is, or we have good reason to expect it will be, the subject of a court order, or where the article, if acted upon, might pose a serious health risk. In these circumstances, while the metadata (Title and Authors) will be retained, the text will be replaced with a screen indicating the article has been removed for legal reasons.

Article Replacement

In cases where the article, if acted upon, might pose a serious health risk, the authors of the original article may wish to retract the flawed original and replace it with a corrected version. In these circumstances the procedures for retraction will be followed with the difference that the database retraction notice will publish a link to the corrected re-published article and a history of the document.

Ethical Standards During Peer Review

The journal adheres to COPE’s guidelines for peer reviewers , and authors can expect all parties involved in peer review to

Respect the confidentiality of peer review, and not discuss the manuscript or contact the authors or any other people about the manuscript

Declare any conflicts of interest

Provide an objective and constructive explanation for their recommendation.

Not allow their decision on a manuscript to be influenced by its origin or authorship.

Avoid requesting that the author cites the peer reviewer’s own papers, unless there is a strong scholarly rationale for these.

Not reproduce information or any part of the manuscript under review in any of their own work prior to publication by the author

Only agree to peer review manuscripts within their expertise and within a reasonable time-frame

Not delay publication.

Not use insulting, hostile, or defamatory language

Destroy submitted manuscripts and all related material after they have reviewed them.

Peer Review Process

Unbiased, independent, critical assessment is an intrinsic part of all scholarly work, including the scientific process. Peer review is the critical assessment of manuscripts submitted to journals by experts who are not part of the editorial staff, and is, therefore, an important extension of the scientific process.

Each article submitted to Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences for publication is reviewed by at least two specialist reviewers of the concerned area. The dual review process is strictly followed and in certain controversial cases, the opinion of a 3rd reviewer can also be sought.

Manuscript Processing

Upon on-line submission of the manuscript, the author will be acknowledged with a MS number, via e-mail. Initially an article will be reviewed by the Editorial team to judge the academic quality, scientific rigor and format of the manuscript, in particular its relevance to the scope of the journal, compliance with instructions to authors check list and levels of similarity / accidental plagiarism.

Article submissions must consist of academic material that is unique and original, meaning that articles must engage cited material through critical thought. Articles must follow conventions of the English language in regard to proper grammar, punctuation, and typical writing practices. All factual statements must be supported by cited sources or research evidence. Authors must ensure the accuracy of citations, quotations, diagrams, tables, and maps.

Articles written in poor English language with confusing or illogical statements, or not conforming to instructions to authors of Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences will either be rejected or returned to the authors for reformatting. Manuscripts deemed proper only will be forwarded to at least two subject experts to work as anonymized reviewers in a time bound frame of 4 to 5 weeks, to provide their unbiased input on the overall quality of the reviewed manuscript as per standard international norms.

Acceptable manuscripts will be checked for data analysis and verification of references before the author is notified about the status of the paper with any suggestions for modifications strictly as reviewers comments and revisions asked. Editors will check at every step for full compliance and revision of all such articles in press. Finally accepted articles will then be forwarded for typesetting and formatting, and the galley proof will be sent to the authors for proof reading, before final publication in a time bound period. For detailed process of manuscript, please see the flow chart of MS processing in Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences

Guidelines for Reviewers

An unpublished manuscript is a privileged document. Please protect it from any form of exploitation. Don’t cite a manuscript or refer to the work it describes before it has been published and don’t use the information that it contains for the advancement of your own research or in discussions with colleagues. Adopt a positive, impartial attitude toward the manuscript under review, with the aim of promoting effective and constructive scientific communication.

If you believe that you cannot judge a given article impartially, please return it immediately to the editor. Reviews must be completed within 4 to 6 weeks. If you know that you cannot finish the review within that time, immediately return the manuscript to the editor.

In your review, consider the following aspects of the manuscript: –Adherence to style of the MS as set forth in Instructions to Authors of Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences

Adequacy of title, abstract and its contents. Explicit language and clear expression of findings in the manuscript.

Significance of objectives, questions or subjects studied, with a clear justification or rationale.

Originality of work: It should be checked through standard plagiarism software only.

Appropriateness of approach or methodology and adequacy of experimental techniques with citations, so that the work can be easily replicated.

Appropriateness of clear images, figures and or tables and length of article, word count etc..

Experimental data its lucid presentation and critical interpretation.

Soundness of conclusion based on data, and interpretation and relevance of discussion of the manuscript.

Appropriate literature citations as per Harvard Style of References with updated references.

All sources must be cited in the reference list and in the main text. References with non-English titles must include a translation. All in-text citations must be cited in the reference list and all sources in the reference list must be cited within the article. Sources accessed online must include a DOI or URL.

If you wish to mark the text of the manuscript, use a pencil or make a photocopy, mark it, and return it together with the original. You can be particularly helpful in pointing out unnecessary illustrations and data that are presented in both tabular (and graphic) form and in detail in the text. Such redundancies are a waste of space and readers time.

A significant number of authors have not learnt how to organize data and will be benefit from your guidance. Do not discuss the paper with its authors. In your comments intended for transmission to the author, do not make any specific statement about the acceptability of a paper. Suggested revision should be stated as such and not expressed as conditions of acceptance. Present criticism dispassionately and avoid offensive remarks.

Organize your review so that an introductory paragraph summarizes the major findings of the article, gives your overall impression of the paper and highlights the major shortcomings. This paragraph should be followed by specific numbered comments which if appropriate may be subdivided into major and minor points. Confidential remarks directed to the editor should be typed (or handwritten) on a separate sheet, not on the review form. You might want to distinguish between revisions considered essential and those judged merely desirable.

Your criticisms, arguments and suggestions concerning the paper will be most useful to the editor and to the author if they are carefully documented. Do not make dogmatic, dismissive statements, particularly about the novelty of work. Substantiate your statements.

Reviewer’s recommendations are gratefully received by the editor. However, since editorial decisions are usually based on evaluations derived from several sources, reviewers should not expect the editor to honor every recommendation.

Animal and Human Studies

Please review journals policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines – for further details, please check the Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences Instruction to Authors.

Animal Studies

Please see in the Author Guidelines detailed requirements for publication when using animals . Authors should state whether experiments were performed in accordance with relevant institutional and national guidelines for the care and use of laboratory animals:

Authors should cite compliance with the US National Research Council’s Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, the US Public Health Service’s Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

UK authors should conform to UK legislation under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations (SI 2012/3039).

For research in India, please see the ICMR Guidelines or CPCSEA Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Committee For the Purpose of Control & Supervision of Experimentation on Animals (CPCSEA)

European authors outside the UK should conform to Directive 2010/63/EU.

Human Studies and Subjects

For manuscripts reporting medical studies that involve human participants, a statement identifying the ethics committee that approved the study and confirmation that the study conforms to recognized standards is required, for example: Declaration of Helsinki; US Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects; MHRA Good Clinical Practice for Clinical Trials; or European Medicines Agency Guidelines for Good Clinical Practice.

Images and information from individual participants will only be published where the authors have obtained the individual’s free prior informed consent. Authors do not need to provide a copy of the consent form to the publisher; however, in signing the author license to publish, authors are required to confirm that consent has been obtained, see Check List of MS Submission, Biosc. Biotech. Res.Comm / Instructions to Authors

Research Reporting Guidelines:

Accurate and complete reporting enables readers to fully appraise research, replicate it, and use it. Authors are encouraged to adhere to the CONSORT.

Advertising Policy

Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences may accept advertising matter for products and services of interest to audience of journal, with a view to encourage advertising as a means to inform readers about academic products and services and to foster product communication between vendor and buyer. The journal will adhere to all ethical and commonly accepted advertising practices and will ensure that its adopted practices conform to association policy. Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences. reserves the right to reject any advertisement deemed not relevant or consistent with its aims and policies. Advertisements will not be related in any way to editorial decision making and will be kept separate from the published content.

All advertising matter will be subject to editorial approval. All orders must be paid in full by the stated deadlines. All artwork will be disposed of six months after publication unless we are specifically instructed to the contrary. Contracts and individual insertions may be cancelled up through the closing date for the issue; ads cancelled after this date will be billed at the regular space rate.

Marketing of the Journal is being done as per publication ethics. Contact the editor@jabaas.com for more details.

Informed Consent Policy

Informed Consent Policy

All individuals have individual rights that are not to be infringed. Individual participants in studies have, for example, the right to decide what happens to the (identifiable) personal data gathered, to what they have said during a study or an interview, as well as to any photograph that was taken. This is especially true concerning images of vulnerable people (e.g. minors, patients, refugees, etc) or the use of images in sensitive contexts. In many instances authors will need to secure written consent before including images or hide the identities as per international publication ethics and best practices.

Identifying details (names, dates of birth, identity numbers, biometrical characteristics (such as facial features, fingerprint, writing style, voice pattern, DNA or other distinguishing characteristic) and other information) of the participants that were studied should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and genetic profiles unless the information is essential for scholarly purposes and the participant (or parent/guardian if the participant is a minor or incapable or legal representative) gave written informed consent for publication. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve in some cases. Detailed descriptions of individual participants, whether of their whole bodies or of body sections, may lead to disclosure of their identity. Under certain circumstances consent is not required as long as information is anonymized and the submission does not include images that may identify the person.

For studies involving human subjects and volunteers, please indicate in the manuscript, in a section preceding the References, the following statement or an analogous statement that applies to your situation: “All 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 Human research: Helsinki Declaration as revised in 2013.

Retractions/ Corrections / Withdrawal

Authors submitting their work to Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences must carefully ensure that their submitted articles follow standard conventions of scientific reporting, originality of the work, explicit and correct English language used with regard to best writing practices. All factual statements must be supported by cited sources or research evidence. Authors must ensure the accuracy of citations, quotations, diagrams, tables, and maps. Despite the mandate of clear instructions on the journals website, Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences will consider retractions, corrections or expressions of concern in line with COPE’s Retraction Guidelines, if an author is found to have made a justifiable error, the journal will issue a corrigendum. If the journal is found to have made an error, we will issue an erratum.

Retractions are usually reserved for articles that are seriously flawed that their findings or conclusions should not be relied upon, or that contain substantial plagiarism or life-endangering content. Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences that publishes accepted manuscripts, may make minor changes such as those which would likely occur during copyediting, typesetting or proofreading, but any substantive corrections will be carried out in line with COPE’s Retraction Guidelines.

Accepted articles in final stages of publication, if are withdrawn, will entail withdrawal fees. The request will be processed by the editorial board and only serious genuine reasons will be considered for retraction if possible. The decision of the editorial board will be final and not negotiable. Unethical withdrawal or no response from the authors to editorial board communication will be subjected to sanction a ban to all authors, and their institute will also be notified.

Infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like. Occasionally a retraction will be used to correct errors in submission or publication.The retraction of an article by its authors or the editor under the advice of members of the scholarly community has long been an occasional feature of the learned world.Standards for dealing with retractions have been developed by a number of library and scholarly bodies, and this best practice is adopted for article retraction by us.

A retraction note titled “Retraction: [article title]” signed by the authors and/or the editor is published in the paginated part of a subsequent issue of the journal and listed in the contents list.In the electronic version, a link is made to the original article.The online article is preceded by a screen containing the retraction note. It is to this screen that the link resolves; the reader can then proceed to the article itself. The original article is retained unchanged save for a watermark on the .pdf indicating on each page that it is “retracted.”The HTML version of the document is removed.

Editorial Policies

Generally, functioning of the journal is overseen by an Editorial Advisory board, which consists of eminent and competent researchers in the field, who contribute by inviting contributions and proposing expert opinions on the suitability of submissions. The Editorial board consists of the following important positions:

Editor-in-Chief: The Editor-in-Chief is primarily the one responsible for activities conducted for the journal and maintains the right of final acceptance or rejection of manuscripts. An experienced academician with quality publications is appointed by the Society for Science and Nature, Bhopal India www.ssn.org the official Publishers of Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences to oversee the entire publication process of the journal.

Executive Editor: Executive Editor is who directs processing of the manuscripts which entail soliciting manuscripts from potential contributors, assessing the suitability of the manuscript with respect to its scope, managing the peer review process, devising strategies for the progress of the journal, coordinating with the reviewers and board members, taking decisions on the revised submissions and occasionally assisting the Editor-in-chief in final acceptance or rejection of manuscripts.

Associate Editors: Their role is in handling in reporting to the Chief Editor, and supervision of the editorial team, managing submissions, assigning articles, overseeing publication schedules and other matters related to smooth functioning of the journal.

Academic Editors: Academic Editors are associates who will assist the Chief / Executive Editors in assessing the suitability of the manuscript with respect to its scope, managing the peer review process, devising strategies for the progress of the journal, coordinating with the reviewers and board members.

Editorial Board Members: The international editorial advisory board consists of a panel of researchers having expertise in the relevant field, who are appointed by the authorities of the journal for a specified term of 2 or more years. Editorial board members are required to: carry out peer-reviewing of submitted manuscripts, assess submissions based on the policy and scope of the journal, organize publication of thematic issues, invite new authors and submissions, provide editorials for thematic issues organized under their guest editorship.

Editorial Team: The editorial team is made up of experienced and highly qualified researchers and faculty members of different subjects who help the management of editorial process.

Peer Review

Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences follows the anonymized peer-review procedure for submissions of all manuscripts to its journal. All submitted manuscripts, after initial evaluation for scope, originality, conformity to the journals instructions and check list, language and academic quality writing are then subjected to an extensive anonymized peer review in consultation with members of the journal’s editorial board and independent external referees (usually two reviewers). All manuscripts/chapters are assessed in a time bound frame (usually a month with the reviewers), and the decision based on all the peer reviewers’ comments, finally taken by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, is then conveyed to the author (s).

(Ethics, Duties and Responsibilities of Authors Reviewers and Editors, Plagiarism and its Control, Malpractices and Ethical statements) Link of copy right form and Plagiarism Check Statement

i) Ethics

To maintain fair practice we at, Society for Science & Nature (SSN) Bhopal India, the official publishers of Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications strongly believe in strictly following these guidelines for maintaining academic quality and scientific rigor.

These features include information about the methods of selecting articles, especially on the explicit process of external peer review; statements indicating adherence to ethical guidelines; evidence that authors have disclosed financial conflicts of interest; timely correction of errata; explicit responsible retractions as appropriate; and opportunity for comments and dissenting opinion.

We are deeply committed to fair practice of this publication, especially with regard to plagiarism, collaboration, originality, fraud and conflict of interests.

ii)Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

Authorship of the manuscript

All persons who made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (such as technical help, writing and editing assistance, general support) but who do not meet the criteria for authorship must not be listed as an author, but should be acknowledged in the “Acknowledgements” section after their written permission to be named as been obtained.

The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co -authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list and verify that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication.

Authors of manuscripts of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. There should be a clear statement of logical objectives and rationale / justification to take up the study. Study design must be robust and all methods used must be cited properly with standard references so that they can be reproduced easily. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work.

Discussion must have a critical and comprehensive account of statements supported by up-to-date references. Conclusions must be drawn which must corroborate the data and interpretation highlighting the novelty of the work. References need to be checked for their presence in both text and reference section with all links of refrences from Google Scholar, Pub Med etc.

Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Review and professional publication articles should also be accurate and objective, and editorial ‘opinion’ works should be clearly identified as such. Submission of a certificate by all MS submitting authors in this regard is mandatory in the form of the Copy Right Form and Plagiarism Check Report

Link of copy right form and Plagiarism Check Statement

iii) Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers and Editors

Any manuscript received for review must be treated as a confidential document. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviews should be conducted objectively, and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments, so that authors can use them for improving the paper. Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be not be possible, should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers. They must not put their own references in the revised MS, as citations for their benefit.

Editors of BioscBiotec. Res.Comm will evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit and scientific rigor. An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Editors should take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper.

iv)Plagiarism, it’s check, tools used and Actions thereof

The authors of Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications should strictly ensure that they have written and submitted entirely original manuscripts to the journal, strictly following all norms of academic quality. If the authors have used the work and /or words of others, it has been appropriately cited or quoted as per standard ethics and norms of publication.

Plagiarism takes many forms, from ‘passing off’ another’s paper as the author’s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another’s paper (without attribution), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical in Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications.

If any manuscript is found published with plagiarized material at any stage in Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications, it will be immediately retracted with information to authors. Also, authors who fail to comply with the reviewer’s comments in revising their manuscripts, particularly in reducing the accidental plagiarism will be informed about dropping their manuscripts from publication in Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications, and they will be returned their APC after standard deductions.

Instructions are given to all authors who propose to submit their contribution to Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences to kindly check their MS very minutely for plagiarism and similarity levels of their text matter of the manuscripts under submission using Ithenticate / Turnitin software.They have to certify in the Copy right form about this statement.

Link of copy right form and Plagiarism Check Statement

MS having less than 15 % of similarity levels using standard worldwide accepted soft wares will only be considered for publication in Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences

Malpractice and Ethical Statements

Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement is based, in large part, on the guidelines and standards developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The relevant duties and expectations of authors, reviewers, and editors of the journal are set out below.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences follows the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers. In addition, as a journal that follows the ICMJE’s Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, it is expected of authors, reviewers and editors that they follow the best-practice guidelines on ethical behaviour contained therein. A selection of key points is included below, but always refer to the three documents listed above for full details of Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractices.

Link of copy right form and Plagiarism Check Statement

Duties of Editors

Fair play and editorial independence

Editors evaluate submitted manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their scientific rigor and academic merit (importance, originality, study’s validity, clarity) and its relevance to the journal’s scope, without regard to the authors’ race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, citizenship, religious belief, political philosophy or institutional affiliation. Decisions to edit and publish are not determined by the policies of governments or any other agencies outside of the journal itself. The Editor-in-Chief has full authority over the entire editorial content of the journal and the timing of publication of that content.

Confidentiality

Editors and editorial staff will not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Editors and editorial board members will not use unpublished information disclosed in a submitted manuscript for their own research purposes without the authors’ explicit written consent. Privileged information or ideas obtained by editors as a result of handling the manuscript will be kept confidential and not used for their personal advantage. Editors will recuse themselves from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships/connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions connected to the papers; instead, they will ask another member of the editorial board to handle the manuscript.

Publication decisions

The editors ensure that all submitted manuscripts being considered for publication undergo strict anonymized peer-review by at least two reviewers who are expert in the field. The Editor is responsible for deciding which of the manuscripts submitted to the journal will be published, based on the validation of the work in question, its importance to researchers and readers, the reviewers’ comments and levels of academic quality. The Editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Involvement and cooperation in investigations

Editors (in conjunction with the publisher and/or society) will take responsive measures when ethical concerns are raised with regard to a submitted manuscript or published paper. Every reported act of unethical publishing behavior will be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication. If, on investigation, the ethical concern is well-founded, a correction, retraction, expression of concern or other note as may be relevant, will be published in the journal.

Duties of Reviewers

Contribution to editorial decisions

Peer review assists editors in making editorial decisions and, through editorial communications with authors, may assist authors in improving their manuscripts. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication and lies at the heart of scientific endeavor. The journal shares the view of many that all scholars who wish to contribute to the scientific process have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing, maintaining all standards of academic quality, particularly the scientific rigor.

Promptness

Any invited referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should immediately notify the editors and decline the invitation to review so that alternative reviewers can be contacted.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review are confidential documents and must be treated as such; they must not be shown to or discussed with others except if authorized by the Editor-in-Chief (who would only do so under exceptional and specific circumstances). This applies also to invited reviewers who decline the review invitation.

Standards of objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively and observations formulated clearly with supporting arguments so that authors can use them for improving the manuscript. Personal criticism of the authors is inappropriate.

Acknowledgement of sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that is an observation, derivation or argument that has been reported in previous publications should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also notify the editors of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other manuscript (published or unpublished) of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Any invited referee who has conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies or institutions connected to the manuscript and the work described therein should immediately notify the editors to declare their conflicts of interest and decline the invitation to review so that alternative reviewers can be contacted. Unpublished material disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the authors. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for the reviewer’s personal advantage. This applies also to invited reviewers who decline the review invitation.

Data access and retention

Authors may be asked to provide the raw data of their study together with the manuscript for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if practicable. In any event, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least 10 years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data centre), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.

Supplementary data or information (SI) which are important for scientific progress help in reproducibility, being one of the golden standards of the scientific method. This can be shared as per submission guidelines of Biosc. Biotech. Res. Comm. Authors must ensure that all submitted manuscripts have been prepared following academic quality writing, consisting of quality contents. All supplementary information like large data files, tables etc that are not practical to include in the manuscript itself, must be made readily available for the readers, reviewers as files uploaded when required. We encourage the authors to share their supplementary data which can make their articles more discoverable, giving people alternative ways to find their valuable research work.

Originality and plagiarism

Instructions are given to all authors who propose to submit their contribution to Journal of Agriculture Biotechnology & Applied Sciences to kindly check their MS very minutely for any accidental plagiarism and similarity levels of their text matter of the manuscripts under submission using only Ithenticate / Turnitin software.They have to certify in the Copy right form about this statement.

Link of copy right form and Plagiarism Check Statement

MS having less than 15 % of similarity levels using standard worldwide accepted soft wares will only be considered for publication in Biosc Biotech Res Comm .

Multiple, duplicate, redundant or concurrent submission/publication

Papers describing essentially the same research should not be published in more than one journal or primary publication. Hence, authors should not submit for consideration a manuscript that has already been published in another journal. Submission of a manuscript concurrently to more than one journal is unethical publishing behaviour and unacceptable.

The publication of some kinds of articles (such as clinical guidelines, translations) in more than one journal is sometimes justifiable, provided that certain conditions are met. The authors and editors of the journals concerned must agree to the secondary publication, which must reflect the same data and interpretation of the primary document. The primary reference must be cited in the secondary publication.

Authorship of the manuscript

Only persons who meet these following authorship criteria should be listed as authors in the manuscript as they must be able to take public responsibility for the content: (i) made significant contributions to the conception, design, execution, data acquisition, or analysis/interpretation of the study; and (ii) drafted the manuscript or revised it critically for important intellectual content; and (iii) have seen and approved the final version of the paper and agreed to its submission for publication. All persons who made substantial contributions to the work reported in the manuscript (such as technical help, writing and editing assistance, general support) but who do not meet the criteria for authorship must not be listed as an author, but should be acknowledged in the “Acknowledgements” section after their written permission to be named as been obtained. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co -authors (according to the above definition) and no inappropriate co-authors are included in the author list and verify that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript and agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Authors should—at the earliest stage possible (generally by submitting a disclosure form at the time of submission and including a statement in the manuscript)—disclose any conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or their interpretation in the manuscript.

Examples of potential conflicts of interest that should be disclosed include financial ones such as honoraria, educational grants or other funding, participation in speakers’ bureaus, membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest, and paid expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements, as well as non-financial ones such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs in the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. All sources of financial support for the work should be disclosed (including the grant number or other reference number if any).

Acknowledgement of sources

Authors should ensure that they have properly acknowledged the work of others, and should also cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately (from conversation, correspondence or discussion with third parties) must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Authors should not use information obtained in the course of providing confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, unless they have obtained the explicit written permission of the author(s) of the work involved in these services.

Hazards and human or animal subjects

If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the authors must clearly identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves the use of animals or human participants, the authors should ensure that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) has approved them; the manuscript should contain a statement to this effect. Authors should also include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human participants. The privacy rights of human participants must always be observed.

Peer review

Authors are obliged to participate in the peer review process and cooperate fully by responding promptly to editors’ requests for raw data, clarifications, and proof of ethics approval, patient consents and copyright permissions. In the case of a first decision of “revisions necessary”, authors should respond to the reviewers’ comments systematically, point by point, and in a timely manner, revising and re-submitting their manuscript to the journal by the deadline given.

Fundamental errors in published works

When authors discover significant errors or inaccuracies in their own published work, it is their obligation to promptly notify the journal’s editors or publisher and cooperate with them to either correct the paper in the form of an erratum or to retract the paper. If the editors or publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error or inaccuracy, then it is the authors’ obligation to promptly correct or retract the paper or provide evidence to the journal editors of the correctness of the paper. For guidelines on retracting or correcting articles, please contact the editor at c

Duties of the Publisher

Handling of unethical publishing behavior

In cases of alleged or proven scientific misconduct, fraudulent publication or plagiarism, the publisher, in close collaboration with the editors, will take all appropriate measures to clarify the situation and to amend the article in question. This includes the prompt publication of an erratum, clarification or, in the most severe case, the retraction of the affected work. The publisher, together with the editors, shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, and under no circumstances encourage such misconduct or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.

Access to journal content

The publisher is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research and ensures accessibility by partnering with organizations and maintaining our own digital archive as well as in international repositories like Portico, JStor/Ithaka and others. For details archiving policy, please click www.jabaas.com

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