Editorial Workflow
Any article submitted to the journals of Integrated Publishing association will be subjected to the following course of editorial and peer review process.
Being a free to access and free to publish journal we are limited with resources, the total submission process is handled via submissions through email attachments, we are currently working on integrating the site with Open Journal system but it involves lot of resources, it will be installed in near future. The total submissions and all correspondence will be only through emails, we are not using any online forms for any purpose.
All submitted articles will be submitted to the concerned Chief Editor who inspects the manuscript, if he determines that the manuscript is not of sufficient quality to be submitted for review or if the submitted manuscript is out of scope of the journal he reject the submission without any further processing. An email will be sent to the concerned author informing about the rejection of manuscript.
If the Chief Editor determines that the submitted manuscript is of sufficient quality and also falls within the scope of the submitted journal, he/she sends the article to one of the journal’s associate or managing editor for further processing. All managing editors are empowered to reject the articles if he/she feels that a normal review process is not required based on any reason. If the managing editor feels that it can be sent for review to the concerned reviewers.
The reviewer may be selected from the potential reviewers provided by the authors while submitting the article but its not mandatory to send only to them. The reviewers will review the papers and submit their own review report along with their recommendations of one of the following actions
- Publish Unaltered
- Publish after Minor Changes
- Review Again after Major Changes
- Reject: Manuscript is flawed or not sufficiently novel
When all reviewers have submitted their reports, the managing Editor can make one of the following editorial recommendations to the Chief Editor
- Publish Unaltered
- Review Again after Minor Changes
- Review Again after Major Changes
- Reject
If the recommendation is publish unaltered the Chief Editor process the article for publishing, the article will be sent to Technical Editor.
If the recommendation is to submit after minor changes, the article will be send to the corresponding author of the article for submitting after making the recommended corrections. Corresponding author is the responsible person to resubmit the article after making recommended corrections within stipulated time.
If the recommendation is to submit after major change, the Chief Editor determines whether to accept the paper or not, if he rejects the author will be informed about the decision, if he accepts the above-mentioned procedure will be adopted.
If the decision is rejected, authors will be informed about the decision over mail, they are requested not to resubmit the same paper again.
The total editorial workflow assigns Chief Editor the total responsibility to select or reject any article, he/she is the sole authority in the full editorial process. The peer review is single blinded, i.e. the reviewers know who are the authors but the authors are not informed about who are the reviewers.
Integrated Publication Association is an independent association who’s success is determined by the association members, review panel members and editors, soon a separate acknowledgement page will be provided in our site for acknowledging the work done by the Editors, Reviewers, and other supporters in the near future.
