About the Journal

About JMC

The Journal of Molecular Chemistry is a top-tier venue for discoveries in the field of chemistry and at the interface of chemistry and biology, chemistry and materials sciences. The JMC:

• would provide all contents on online site for wide circulation and get contents indexed in different scientific content databases.
• provides free access to all of its research articles for one or more months/years for each issue,
• would deposit published research articles in different databases and would satisfy the NIH Public Access Policy guidlines.
• is an ideal home for authors seeking the broadest audience for their most important work.

The journal is led by Editors and supported by Editorial Advisory Board of peer scientists from various reputed universities, research institutes and other reputed Chemistry Research Institutes whose depth and experience ensure fair and competent peer review.

Sending your work to the JMC

The journal considers research submissions in several categories. The JMC receives submissions only through its website; submissions by mail or e-mail will be returned.

• Create or access your JMC author account

Do you have a question about a manuscript you've already submitted?

• When a manuscript is received and confirmed by the JMC, an acknowledgment is sent via e-mail to the corresponding/submitting author. For any communication with us, please reference the tracking number assigned by the JMC noted in the acknowledgment.
• In order to avoid confusion regarding correspondence, inquiries, and decisions, the JMC will typically communicate only with those who are designated as corresponding authors during the submission process, however, most of important decision emails are sent to all listed authors of an online submission.

Manuscript submitted and processed for reviewing can't be withdrawn. If authors donot respond to emails for the reviewed and accepted manuscript, then the article will be published by the journal in as such format with a note 'withdrawn by authors' by no response.

Peer Review Process

The submission are peer reviewed by using standard review procedure. All submission to JMC undergo peer-review before acceptance/publication. The Journal board uses 'single blind review' process for reviewing of the submission. 

Single Blind Review Process: The reviewers will have access to submitted files and provide feedback within the assigned time.

Standard Review Process
Editors will email selected Reviewers the title and abstract of the submission, as well as an invitation to log into the journal web site to complete the review. Reviewers enter the journal web site to agree to do the review, view the declared ethical guidelines for reviewers, declare 'conflict of interest' (if any), to download submissions, submit their comments, and select a recommendation.

Average time for review is 3-5 weeks.
Manuscript passes through following stages before publication:
Submission> Pre-review screening > Editor Assigned > Peer-Review Process > Editor decision (Accept/Reject) > Copyediting > Layout Setting > Galley Proof > Publish

Unique IDs for Articles: The journal is currently using URN number for the published articles (however, this is currently meant for internal use by journal). The journal has started assigning of DOI (Digital Object Indentifier) to articles from 2025 volume onwards as it help in providing the correct citations records for the published articles.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

The Journal ‘Journal of Molecular Chemistry’ and its Publisher ‘ScienceIn’ follows the best practices in evaluation of contents, processing of manuscripts and publishing thereof. The Journal and Publisher essentially follows the code of conduct defined by Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for Journal Editors (Code of Conduct and Best Practices Guidelines for Journal Editors listed in COPE guidelines and Publisher (the Code of Conduct Journal Publishers listed in COPE page COPE site

Further, the journal publishes medicinal chemistry/biomedical reports, so the journal adheres and follows the guidelines defined for publication in medical journals by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) in its document ‘Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals’ provided on link http://www.icmje.org/recommendations and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) on its webpage http://www.wame.org/

The Authors, Reviewers and Editors need to adhere and follow the code of conduct on ethical practices defined at above mentioned links in the respective roles.

Plagiarism policy: The authors need to ensure that their article text is plagiarism free. Though, it is a wide term covering different aspects that come under consideration for any authored works. The authors of JMC are specifically required to adhere to highest standard for their composed work. The work must be novel and must not have been published in any other source (information about the availability of contents (in parts or in whole; as preprint or in any repository or any database) must be intimated to the editor (in cover letter to editor). The text similarity (most common form of plagiarism) should be checked with available online tools and authors should ensure that there is no notable text similarity. All figures and images included in the article must be original. The JMC board takes plagiarism seriously and any observation of such contents would lead to removal/retraction of published works. More details about plagiarism should be referred at the link .

AI policy: The journal allows the regulated and monitored use of AI tools (chatgpt etc.). Authors may use these tools where the expression of concept/content get improved and refined language use improves the understanding of content. The contents as such, should be original and composed by authors itself. Any revision/improved version of contents must be thoroughly checked for any altered presentation of concept. Other than this (improvisation of presentation), AI tools should not be used for any other purpose.

In addition, general instructions and help pages on ‘ScienceIn’ for Authors, Reviewers and Editors should be referred for brief general conduct

Authors

Each authors who submit (and willing to publish in the journal) the manuscript, should read the ethical guidelines for submission and publication of work in scientific and medical journal (listed on above links). Particularly, manuscript must be plagiarism free. Any Animal study reported should have been performed with approval of respective institutional ethical committee and statement thereof should be included in manuscript.

Author Guidelines for manuscript preparation and submission details are provided under Author Guidelines (See submission link).

All authors are responsible for the contents included in any of the manuscripts submitted to JMC Journal. Submission of a manuscript to JMC journal is considered a presumption that submission is being made with the approval of all listed authors and all authors have read the contents and approved the submission. Submission also marks that the same work has not been submitted to any other journal not under processing/evaluation in any other journal. 

The corresponding author must ensure that all the researchers/person who has contributed significantly in the work being submitted for publication, have been listed as coauthors of the work and/or others may have been acknowledged in the acknowledgement section. The authorship should balance intellectual contributions to the conception, design, analysis and writing of the study against the collection of data and other routine work. If there is no task that can reasonably be attributed to a particular individual, then that individual should not be credited with authorship. Authors have a responsibility to give due acknowledgement to all workers contributing to the work, including technical staff and data professionals.

During the submission of the manuscript, the submitting/corresponding author will have to attest to the fact that those named as co-authors have agreed to its submission for publication and accepts the responsibility for having properly included all (and only) co-authors. Also the submitting/corresponding author approves a ‘license to publish’ on behalf of all the authors. Any change in authorship after initial submission must be approved by all authors and justified to the editor.

In the case of authorship disputes, authors are encouraged to reach a mutual agreement. If this is not possible, unresolved disputes should be referred to the responsible research institution(s) for mediation.

The submitting author/corresponding author will have to add each authors’ details during the submission metadata step. In the authors metadata, the submitting author needs to carefully check the spelling, format of all author names, affiliations, sequence of authors and funding information. On publication, this metadata will be transferred to indexing services/databases, so this information should be accurate to ensure that the article is correctly indexed, which may affect citations and future funding evaluation.

Conflicts of interest: There could be a diverse area of shared and vested interests for any published article contents. Any individual (Author, reviewer, editors) having vested or intriguing interest that may give rise to any ‘conflict of interest’ for any published work or under editorial processing should inform the relevant party immediately, however, it is difficult to define a single factor possible for ‘conflict of interest’. The journal office should be informed about any significant conflict of interest that editors, authors or reviewers may have. The articles from the editors of the journal (editors participating as author of any article) will be assigned and processed by other editorial  board member/associated editor of the journal. Conflicts of interest are almost inevitable, however, these should be disclosed/declared, the authors may include declaration of any potential ‘conflict of interest’ in the article (before or after the acknowledgement section) to be published. The conflict of interest may arise or involve multiple factors such as financial benefits or liabilities, shared piece of information, authorship dispute or similar ones.

The authors should refer the publishing ethics or 'Code of conduct' and 'conflict on interest' guidelines on the link: https://pubs.thesciencein.org/authors-code-of-conduct/

Reviewer

The journal uses ‘Open Review’ of the manuscripts, the reviewers must maintain the confidentiality during reviewing and post review of manuscript. The manuscript work should be evaluated in respective field of expertise and detailed feedback and recommendation should be provided to editors. The general code of conduct defined in links below should be referred and followed while reviewing and providing feedback.

The ethics guidelines/code of conduct details for reviewers can be referred at https://pubs.thesciencein.org/reviewers-code-of-conduct/

Editors

All the editors should handle the assigned manuscripts by observing fair processing of submissions, editorial independence, confidentiality, and rational decision making within stipulated time framework with the feedback obtained from independent reviewer/experts in the field of work covered in respective manuscript. The section editors handles the submissions from specific field submitted in the respective field specific section of the journal. A detailed code of conduct mentioned in COPE reference documents and ScienceIn page https://pubs.thesciencein.org/editors-code-of-conduct/ should be adhered to.

Publisher

The Publisher ‘ScienceIn’ handles the unethical publishing cases. 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. The online and digital contents are preserved by the Publisher by maintaining own digital archive and would also ensure accessibility by partnering with other digital archiving organizations. Most of the journal contents are archived in the Print form as well.

 

The manuscript processing involves following stages