The International Journal of Adulteration publishes articles representing the qualitative & quantitative presence of chemical and microbiological adulteration in drinking water, drugs, foods, animal feed, and their raw materials, material adulteration/contamination in the following subject categories; 1) Food Science, 2) Water Science & Technology, 3) Pharmacology, Toxicology & Pharmaceutics (Miscellaneous) and 4) material science (Miscellaneous) The journal choosing the article belongs to adulterants & contaminants include both established and emerging hazards, e.g., bacterial pathogens and bacterial toxins, products of microbial activity (such as biogenic amines), plasticizers such as phthalates, viruses, fungi and mycotoxins, marine biotoxins, plant toxins, process and environmental adulterants, chemical adulterants, Material contaminants or adulterants.
International Journal of Adulteration employs a double-blind external 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.
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.
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.
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.
Discovery Scientific Society has its own policy for article substitution & withdrawal. Based on our journal withdrawal policy, we won't withdraw any published articles and won't agree article substitution instead of a peer-reviewed or previously accepted article.
Discovery Scientific Society obey the policies of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for retraction. However, article retraction is decided only by the editor, not based on author withdrawal request.
This may happen due to 1) data manipulation, 2) gross breaching of ethical concerns, 3) unintentional mistakes happened in experimentation process of research, 4) data piracy or some other reason. Such published woks endanger the truthfulness of science-data and essential to be retracted from the published literature. Discovery Scientific Society retracting the paper after the evidential guidance of editor, board members and readers of the scholarly community. The retraction details of the particular article will be published in the same issue itself. We are not encouraging the partial retraction.
The full retraction is published in following procedure: - 1) in HTML page of issue contents, it noted as “Retracted: [Paper heading]”, in the very next line “list of all authors name”; 2) in PDF content, it noted as “Retracted: [Paper heading]”, in the very next line “list of all authors name, then authors’ affiliation details”, then “reason for retraction” & approval of authors/editor, meantime the whole original data of the article is removed; 3) The PDF file is water-marked as “Retracted” in all available pages; 4) meantime, article related other HTML pages & supplementary details also removed.
International Journal of Adulteration published Semi - Annual (2 issues per year) on regular basis.
International Journal of Adulteration 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.
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1. Authors should be disclosed the manuscript concerned conflicts-of-interest before the submission & and it must be detailed in specific section of the article
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