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International Journal of Dermatology Sciences

Peer Review and Publication Policy

Double Blind Peer Review Policy

The journal employs the double blind peer review process. Every proposal submitted for publication is read at least by an editor, for an initial review. If the paper agrees with editorial policies and with a minimum quality level, is sent to two reviewers. The reviewers won't know the author's identity, as any identifying information will be stripped from the document before the review.

Reviewers' comments to the editors are confidential and before passing on to the author will made anonymous. Based on the reviewers' comments, the Editorial Board makes a final decision on the acceptability of the manuscript, and communicates to the authors the decision, along with referees' reports. Whether significant revisions are proposed, acceptance is dependent on whether the author can deal with those satisfactorily.

Policy on Retraction of articles

The Journal follows the COPE guidelines for Retraction of articles: It Can be found at following link:

https://publicationethics.org/node/19896

Policy on plagiarism

The Journal do check plagiarism of submitted paper through Similarity Check - Crossref. To complain, please feel free to contact us. The journal will debar the guilty authors from publishing for the period of six months.

Open Access Policy

International Journal of Dermatology Sciences is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Copyright Policy

The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright as per Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - Share Alike 4.0.

Creative Commons

Authorship Policy

Authorship provides credit for a researcher's contribution to a study and carries accountability (as described by McNutt et al. (2018) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201715374; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1715374115; licensed under CC BY 4.0).

Preservation Policy

All of our electronic content (website, manuscripts, etc.) is stored on three different sources. Content on one server is online and accessible to the readers. The copy of the same content is kept as a backup on another source. On the other hand journal’s Abstracting/Indexing services also store many essential information about the articles. All articles are also stored in printed format in our society's office.

Repository Policy

The Journal allows authors to deposit versions of their work in an institutional or other repository of their choice as per Sherpa/Romeo Green policy.

Complaint Policy

Anyone can directly contact us via email or Enquiry Form for any kind of complaint, etc.

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