About the Journal

Peer Review Process

The journal uses ‘Double Blind Review’ of the manuscripts, the authors and 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.

Standard review time is 3 weeks (time allotted to reviewers).

The standard review process will be applicable to special issues or special topic issues.

The double-blind review process means that both the authors' identities and the reviewers' identities are concealed from each other throughout the review period. Adhering strictly to these guidelines is crucial for any submission to be considered for processing in the journal. Failure to comply will result in desk rejection without review.

Authors need to follow instructions below meticulously when preparing manuscript:

1. Anonymizing the Manuscript (Crucial Steps):

Remove All Author Information:
Do NOT include author names, affiliations, email addresses, or any other identifying information on the title page, in the headers/footers, or anywhere else in the manuscript body.
Do NOT include author biographies or acknowledgements that could reveal your identity.
Anonymize Self-Citations:
When citing your own previous work, treat it as you would any other citation. Do not use phrases like "In our previous work [X]" or "As shown in [Y] by us."
Replace your name(s) in the reference list with "[Author(s) Removed for Anonymity]" or similar placeholder. For example:
Instead of: "Smith, J. (2023). A new approach to X. Journal of Y, 1(2), 3-10."
Use: "[Author(s) Removed for Anonymity]. (2023). A new approach to X. Journal of Y, 1(2), 3-10."
Ensure that any reference to your own unpublished work is also anonymized or removed if it significantly compromises anonymity.
Anonymize Figures and Tables:
Ensure that any identifying information (e.g., lab logos, specific equipment models unique to your institution, dataset names that clearly link to your organization) is removed from figures, tables, and their captions.
IRemove Project/Grant Information:
Do NOT include grant numbers, project names, or funding acknowledgements within the manuscript body. These should be added only in the final camera-ready version if your paper is accepted.
File Naming and Metadata:
Ensure that your submission file name (e.g., PDF) does not contain your name or any identifying information. Use a generic name like "manuscript.pdf" or "submission.pdf."
Check the document properties/metadata of your submitted file (e.g., PDF properties in Adobe Acrobat, or document information in Microsoft Word). Remove any author names, organizations, or other identifying information from these fields before submission.

2. Language and Tone:

Maintain an objective and academic tone throughout your manuscript.
Avoid language that could reveal your identity (e.g., "In our groundbreaking work at University X...", "Our team at Company Y has developed...").

3. Supplementary Materials (If Applicable):

If you submit supplementary materials (e.g., code, datasets, videos), these must also be fully anonymized.
Remove any identifying information from file names, comments within code, metadata, or documentation.
If your supplementary material is hosted externally (e.g., GitHub, Zenodo), ensure the repository is anonymized or set to private access during the review period. You may provide anonymized access instructions (e.g., a temporary anonymous link) within your anonymized manuscript, but this is often discouraged unless absolutely necessary. It's usually better to package the supplementary material with the submission if possible.

4. Ethical Considerations:

Pre-prints and Public Repositories: While we understand the value of pre-prints (e.g., arXiv), please be aware that widely publicizing your work on a non-anonymized pre-print server before or during the review process may compromise the double-blind nature of the review. While not always grounds for rejection, authors should consider the implications. If you have a pre-print, do not cite it in your manuscript in a way that reveals your identity.
Social Media and Publicity: Refrain from discussing your submission publicly on social media or other platforms in a way that could link you to the submitted manuscript during the review period.

5. Revisions and Camera-Ready Version:

If your paper is accepted, you will be required to submit a camera-ready version that includes all author information, acknowledgements, grant details, and any previously anonymized self-citations in their standard format.

Consequences of Non-Compliance:

Submissions that do not adhere to these double-blind review guidelines will be desk rejected without review. The journal reserve the right to make the final decision on whether a submission meets the anonymization requirements

Frequency

Currently, the journal publishes two issues per year with continuous processing and publication of submissions (by As We Go model).

About JMNS

The Journal of Materials NanoScience is a top-tier venue for discoveries in nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanomaterials and smart nanomaterials. The JMNS:

• would get high Impact by wide circulation and indexing in different scientific content databases.
• provides free access to all of its research articles for one or more months for each issue (Green open access),
• would deposit published research articles in different databases.
• is an ideal home for authors seeking the broadest audience for their most important work.

The journal is led by Editor and an Editorial Board of peer scientists whose depth and experience ensure fair and competent peer review.

Sending your work to the JMNS

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

• Create or access your JMNS author account

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

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

Copyright/Content Access: The Journal publishes articles with 'Green Open Access' (no fee to authors) with reproduction copyright assigned to publisher ScienceIN Publishing. 
Update 2024: The copyright for the contents are retained by authors, the article contents are published with Creative Commons - Non commercial - Non derivative (CC4.0 - NC-ND) license. The article redistribution right are with the ScienceIN Publishing. 

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 will process the assigning of DOI (Digital Object Indentifier) to articles from 2024 onwards as it help in providing the correct citations records for the published articles.

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 retraction note 'withdrawn by authors' by no response.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

The Journal ‘Materials NanoScience’ 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 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/

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 MNS 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 MNS 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 .

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. In rare cases (the field restrictions by journal), if the work include any Animal study (in bionanotechnology section), then reported study must 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 MNS Journal. Submission of a manuscript to MNS 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 nor 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 respective journal concerned should be informed about any significant conflict of interest that editors, authors or reviewers may have. 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.

Financial: The authors of a manuscript should declare or inform the relevant journal about any significant financial interest – recent, present or anticipated – in any organization that may in any way gain or lose financially from the publication of the piece (for example, employment by such an organization; funds for research; funds for a member of staff; fees for consulting; stock or share holdings; patent interests). If any author has such an interest (which constitutes ‘conflict of interest’) then it should be declared. 

Other interests: The other conflict of interest may be personal links (with reviewers, editors or other staff) which may affect or influence the editorial processing/outcome/quality of contents, then it should be brought to the editor/journal. Similar other examples may be an academic link or rivalry, or a strong antipathy to an individual whose interests may be affected by publication of a manuscript, and/or the author/s may like to disclose the statement/interest that would be embarrassing if it became publicly known.

Conflict of interest statement: Authors should include a Conflicts of interest statement in the manuscript under the heading Conflict of Interests placed after the ‘acknowledgements’ section. If there is no conflict of interest the same should be mentioned in the statement.

Authors may refer: F van Kolfschooten, ‘Conflicts of interest: Can you believe what you read?’, Nature, 28 March 2002, vol. 416, pp. 360-363; DOI: 10.1038/416360a. for a description and discussion on conflicts of interest.

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

Reviewer

The journal uses ‘Double Blind 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. 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.

Subscriptions

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The manuscript processing involves following stages