Focus and Scope

Medical Science is an open access peer-reviewed international medical journal which covers technical and clinical studies related to human well being including ethical and social issues. Manuscripts dealing with clinical aspects will be considered for publication, provided they contain results of original investigations.

Medical Science is a platform for quick and timely publication of research, reviews, Analysis, Perspectives, Case reports, Communication and survey including subject areas such as Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Epidemiology, Veterinary medicine and Nursing.

The primary intent of the journal will be to publish clinically relevant information that will directly improve the care of patients. A special section of the journal is dedicated to Case Reports: we would like to invite clinicians and researchers to send us their reports.

Section Policies

Medicine of the month

Open Submissions       Indexed       Peer Reviewed

Research

Open Submissions       Indexed       Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Open Submissions       Indexed       Peer Reviewed

Case Reports

Open Submissions       Indexed       Peer Reviewed

Analysis

Open Submissions       Indexed       Peer Reviewed

Perspectives

Open Submissions       Indexed       Peer Reviewed

Communication

Open Submissions        Indexed       Peer Reviewed

Survey

Open Submissions       Indexed       Peer Reviewed

Letters to the Editor

Open Submissions       Indexed       Peer Reviewed

Thesis

Open Submissions       Indexed       Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Medical Science journal employ a double-blind peer review process, in which the author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The Editorial Board of the journal will immediately screen all articles submitted for publication in that journal. Those articles which fail to reach the scientific standards of the journal may be declined without further review. Those articles which satisfy the requirements of the Editorial Board will be sent to a maximum of three referees. These are experts in the field who have agreed to provide a rapid assessment of the article. Every effort will be made to provide an editorial decision as to acceptance for publication within 4-6 weeks of submission. Referees may request a revision of the article to be made. In this case, it is generally understood that only one revised version can be considered for a further appraisal under the peer-review system.

Editorial independence

Editors evaluate submitted manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit (importance, originality, study’s validity, clarity) and its relevance to the journal’s scope. 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.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

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.

Fair play

An editor will at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Article Processing Charge

The Article Processing Charge for publication in this journal is USD 150 only. Our fees cover the costs of peer review, copyediting, publication, different format of publication (HTML, PDF), inclusion in many Open Access databases. There is no other extra or hidden charges. (The author have to pay the fee within the due date. After the mentioned date the article will be automatically declined and we remove the article from the database. If the author make the payment after the due date, author have to pay penalty fee 50 USD only.) All bank charges shall be borne by the payer. The submitting author assumes responsibility for the Article Processing Charges, and Discovery Publication will not issue refunds of any kind. The Managing Editor will guide the Authors through the payment procedure.

Article Withdrawal policy

If the author wish to withdraw the article after the acceptance mail or once we start to process the article, authors are solely responsible for the preparation of the article. For the preparation of the article the author have to pay the penalty fee. Its mandatory. Discovery Publication will not issue refunds of any kind

To avoid the penalty,

Authors should not submit their article simultaneously to multiple journals. If so happen, authors are solely responsible.
If the authors wish to withdraw the article, the authors have to mail us within 3 working days soon after receiving the acceptance mail.

Publication Frequency

Medical Science published Bi-Monthly ( 6 issues per year) on regular basis. All papers are published as soon as they have been accepted, by adding them to the "current" volume.

Open Access Policy

The journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. It is available online for FREE to all readers. No pre-registration is required and there are no 'logins' and 'passwords'.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Ethical standards for publication exist to ensure high-quality scientific publications, public trust in scientific findings, and that people receive credit for their ideas. The prevention of publication malpractice is one of the important responsibilities of the editorial board. The journal will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable. (The guidelines are based on Elsevier policies and COPE‟s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors). We have great respect and we generally follow the guidelines, given by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and the Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers for any publication disputes, authorship disputes, etc. For these kinds of disputes, we generally visit and follow the COPE website and author(s) are also requested to do so. Excellent guidelines, related to COPE’s Code of Conduct and its advice to tackle cases of suspected misconduct, are available in this link (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).

Studies involving animals and human subjects

All articles dealing with original human or animal data must include a statement on ethics approval at the beginning of the Methods section. This paragraph must contain the following information: the name and address of the ethics committee responsible; the protocol number that was attributed by the ethics committee; and the date of approval by the ethics committee. The ethical standards of experiments must be in accordance with the guidelines provided by the CPCSEA and World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki on Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Humans for studies involving experimental animals and human beings, respectively. For studies conducted on human participants you must state clearly that you obtained written informed consent from the study participants. The journal will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable.

Plagiarism

The Editorial Board of our journal will immediately screen all articles submitted for publication in that journal. Plagiarism is not limited to the Results and Discussion sections; it can involve any part of the manuscript, including figures and tables, in which material is copied from another publication without attestation, reference, or permission. Note that wording does not have to be exact to be copyright infringement; use of very similar words in almost the same sequence can also be infringement. Any suspected misconduct ends up with a quick rejection.

Redundant or duplicate publication

Duplicate or redundant publication is a publication that overlaps substantially with one already published, in press, or in an electronic media submission.

Duplicate or redundant submission is the same manuscript (or the same data) that is submitted to different journals at the same time. International copyright laws, ethical conduct, and cost effective use of resources require that readers can be assured that what they are reading is original.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published or currently submitted elsewhere. Duplicate publication is a violation of the APA code of ethics (APA Publication Manual, 2010) and will be grounds for prompt rejection of the submitted manuscript. If the editor was not aware of the violation and the article has been published, a notice of duplicate submission and the ethical violation will be published.

Publication decisions

The editors ensure that all submitted manuscripts being considered for publication undergo peer-review by at least two reviewers who are expert in the field. The Editor-in-Chief 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 such legal requirements as are currently in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Conflict of Interests

It is necessary that authors should disclose any conflict related to the manuscript while submitting the manuscript for consideration. The conflict of interest will be published along with the article. If the study was funded and there was no conflict of interest the authors must mention “Funding source had no role in study design, data collection, interpretation of results and manuscript writing”. If there is no conflict of interest, authors should mention “Declared none”.

Conflict of interest exists when an author (or the author's institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence (bias) his or her actions (such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties). These relationships vary from negligible to great potential for influencing judgment. Not all relationships represent true conflict of interest. On the other hand, the potential for conflict of interest can exist regardless of whether an individual believes that the relationship affects his or her scientific judgment. Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, and paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal, the authors, and of science itself. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion.

Patient consent forms

The protection of a patient's right to privacy is essential. Please collect and keep copies of patients’ consent forms on which patients or other subjects of your experiments clearly grant permission for the publication of photographs or other material that might identify them. If the consent form for your research did not specifically include this, please obtain it or remove the identifying material. A statement to the effect that such consent had been obtained must be included in the ‘Methods’ section of your paper. If necessary the Editors may request a copy of any consent forms.

Copyrights

The copyrights of all papers published in this journal are retained by the respective authors as per the 'Creative Commons Attribution License'. The author(s) should be the sole author(s) of the article and should have full authority to enter into agreement and in granting rights to Discovery Publication, which are not in breach of any other obligation. The author(s) should ensure the integrity of the paper and related works. Authors should mandatorily ensure that submission of manuscript to Discovery Publication would result into no breach of contract or of confidence or of commitment given to secrecy.

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