The International Advanced Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies (IAJMS) strictly complies with moral justice and ethics, and will conduct a legal review if required on a case-by-case basis. The journal ensures that reproducing or promoting a manuscript does not influence the decision of the editors.
An author is expected to be responsible for the presented data and information in their respective article along with taking the responsibility for its significance.
Reviewers should not share any information from an assigned manuscript with outsiders without the prior permission of the Editor or preserve the data from an assigned manuscript.
Reviewers should only complete the review if they possess fair expertise. An assigned Reviewer with inadequate expertise should responsibly decline the review.
Reviewer comments should appreciate positive aspects, identify negative aspects constructively, and indicate the enhancement needed. A reviewer should explain and support their judgment clearly. The reviewer should ensure that an observation or argument that has been previously reported be accompanied by a relevant citation and should immediately alert the Editor when aware of duplicate publication.
The reviewer's decision should solely depend on scientific merit, relevance to the subject, and the scope of the journal, rather than on financial, racial, ethnic origin, etc., of the authors.
To the extent feasible, the reviewer should minimize the conflict of interest. In such a situation, the reviewer must notify the editor describing the conflict of interest.
Reviewers should morally abide by providing the review comments within the stipulated time and be active enough in responding to the queries raised by the editor if any.
Editors have a responsibility to maintain the integrity of the published literature, if required, by publishing errata or corrections, retractions, and expressions of concern as quickly as possible. The editor must comply with the policy guidelines provided by the publisher and fulfill the responsibilities bestowed upon with integrity.
Editors are responsible for monitoring and ensuring the fairness, timeliness, thoroughness, and civility of the peer-review editorial process.
Journals published by **The International Advanced Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies (IAJMS)** follow a timely rigorous peer review process to bring recent and novel scientific information at its best possible mode. As a publisher, the following policies are considered:
**IAJMS** takes the responsibility to maintain the integrity and completeness of the scholarly record very seriously. Articles that have been published shall remain extant, exact, and unaltered as far as possible. However, occasional unavoidable circumstances may arise where after publication the article requires retraction or removal. Such actions can only occur under exceptional circumstances.
This is only used for "Article in Press" which represents the early versions of the accepted articles. If any article at the stage of "Article in Press" represents infringements of professional ethical codes (e.g., multiple submissions, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data), the article may be withdrawn depending on the Editor's discretion. The Editor's decision is final.
Infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, sham claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, and similar claims will lead to the retraction of an article. Occasionally, a retraction may be considered to correct significant errors in submission or publication.
Subjected to legal limitations of the publisher, this action is taken if the article contains false or inaccurate data representation which may pose a serious health risk, or involves any means of scientific data tampering or other fraud hindering fair practice of science.
The core objective of these measures is to maintain the integrity of the academic record.