Journal Policies

Al-Jabal Academy Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences is an open-access journal, which provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access. Readers have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in the MJSc under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Editorial Process

The submitted manuscript will be checked by an editor for its suitability with AAJPAS’s focus and scope and for major methodological flaws within two weeks.

Editor will work with the author to fulfil all the requirements within this period. Every submitted manuscript which passes this step will then be checked for plagiarism accourding to AAJPAS Plagiarism policy. The manuscript needs to be re-worked if indicated for minor plagiarism and will be rejected if indicated for major plagiarism. Then, an editor-in-charge and an editorial assistant will be assigned for the manuscript. In this stage, the manuscript will be assessed based on novelty and adherence to reporting guidelines. Subsequently, the manuscript will go through a peer-review process. The revisions may be required and will be re-evaluated by the editor-in-charge after the authors providing sufficient responses.

The manuscript will be passed to the editor-in-chief for any further revision and ultimately will take an editorial decision. The accepted manuscript will be sent to copyediting stage for correction of grammar and spelling errors, standardizing the journal in-house style, improving table, figure, and writing quality. The incomplete revision of this stage will result in pending scheduled publication. Then, the manuscript will enter the production stage for typesetting.

A pdf file is sent to the author for review and there should be no more scientific revision. A failure to comply will result in a delay of the publication since it needs editor confirmation for the changes. The final approval is needed from the corresponding author before it is published. The manuscript submitted by one of the editorial teams of the AAJPAS will be processed by other editorial board members who do not have any conflict of interest with the manuscript and follow the same editorial process.

Paper review and evaluation through peer-reviewers

1. All manuscripts submitted to AAJPAS for publication are subjected to qualified reviewers' detailed and strict peer-review process. All manuscripts are subject to double-blind reviews.
2. Manuscripts accepted for full review will be reviewed by at least two external reviewers, who are experts in the same field.
3. Reviewers assess the manuscript submitted to them based on academic standards in addition to AAJPAS predetermined requirements to ascertain the manuscript’s quality and precision, thus providing the editor with the required comments and recommendations based on the prepared form regarding the acceptance, rejection, or request changes to the manuscript, within three weeks. In some cases, acquiring the appropriate reviewers may require an extension of the review process.

4. The decision letter requesting an adequate revision is sent to the Corresponding Author (If necessary, the peer-review process is repeated).
5. After fulfilling the peer-review process requirements, the editor-in-chief issues a decision regarding the manuscript's acceptance or rejection.

Join AAJPAS’s Peer-Review Program

AAJPAS is an Open Access publication, Manuscripts submitted to our journals are peer-reviewed. Reviewers are involved in all manuscripts submitted to our journal. Based on the reviewer’s comments, a Handling Editor (usually the Editor-in-Chief) is subsequently making a final decision about the way a manuscript needs to be improved. We at AAJPAS sincerely invite you to join our peer-review program. By participating, you will provide help to authors from all over the world and will supply them with your ideas and suggestions based on your valuable expertise.

If you are ready to be a volunteer, please register with the journal prior to joining the peer-review

program or, if already registered, can simply log in.

For further information please contact us.

Plagiarism policy

Al-Jabal Academy Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences considers plagiarism to be unethical. The journal strictly refuses copying or plagiarism in any form. Plagiarism occurs when a fundamental part of a manuscript has been copied from a previously published work. All manuscripts submitted to the journal for publication are checked for plagiarism using iThenticate software. If there is plagiarism early in the initial review, it will be rejected and thus not considered for publication in AAJPAS. However, if the manuscript is found to have been plagiarized after publication, additional investigation is conducted with the help of an appropriate committee established for this purpose. The journal will contact the author's institute if the manuscript is determined to have been plagiarized beyond the permitted limits. Due to the issuing of a plagiarism decision, the journal creates a statement linked online with the original paper to identify the plagiarism and provide a reference to the stolen material.