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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Interested in submitting to this journal? We recommend that you review the About the Journal page for the journal's section policies, as well as the Author Guidelines. Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process. Authors can initiate any concern on Contact Form if needed. Authors must read and understand the following instructions before submitting any manuscript. 

  1. Read carefully the “Authorship Guidelines” before submission and develop the manuscript accordingly
  2. Before submission, the Author should sure that all requirements are completed
  3. Fulfill the “comments of reviewers” at the time of revision of the articles without any biases
  4. “Format JWR” during editing which is available on the main page bottom of the website
  5. Fill and Sign the “Agreement of Publication”, Pay the Reviewers’ Fee, and wait for publication
  6. JWR has a backup source and all data and contents are being backed up for future availability. 

Articles

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Copyright Notice

JWR adopts the copyright policy that the authors retain copyright under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. However, the author has to sign a form agreeing to the publication of their article under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

Publishing Calendar: 

  1. Presently, JWR is publishing quarterly;
  2. Call for Papers each January, April, July, and October
  3. Expert Peer Review within 1 month after submission
  4. Notification of acceptance/revision/rejection within 1 week after peer review
  5. Copy of manuscripts to Publishing section by 15th of March, June, September, and December
  6. Publication of Online and Print Editions by the end of each March, June, September, and December.

 

Fees & Sponsorships / Source(s) of funding: 

Journal of World Researches (JWR) does not charge any fee for subscription, Signup, submission of articles, and downloading/reading of published articles as it is an Open Access Journal. 
Journal of World Researches (JWR) charges only PKR 20,000/- or USD 150 for article processing and publication including all processes i.e., the Desk review process, Management of OJS site, One National Review, Communication services, International One Review, Archiving & Data Management, Online availability of Articles, Indexing Services, etc.

JWR offers FULL WAIVER of publication fee to the authors, who are Full Professor in a university or research institution only their own part. 

 

Editorial Ethics:

Journal of World Researches (JWR) follows Ethical Guidelines for Journal given by HEC Islamabad which is as follows;

 

Plagiarism Policy

Journal of World Researches (JWR) follows the plagiarism policy of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan. Manuscripts are to be original and must not be plagiarized. Each submission is checked for plagiarism by Turnitin. If Similarity is above 19% then it is sent back to revise accordingly. If in any case, it is come to know after publication, that manuscript will be immediately removed from the website and the authors will be stamped barred. 

 

The publication process is as follows:

  • The submitted manuscript is acknowledged within 24 hours upon receipt through the automatically generated response of OJS.
  • The manuscript/paper is sent to two reviewers without the name and affiliations of the author(s). The review process takes about two weeks.
  • The review reports are collected from the reviewers and the Managing Editor sends the review reports to the authors including all terms and conditions of the publication.
  • If the paper is accepted, the Managing Editor sends a positive response to the authors. If the paper is accepted subject to modification, the Managing Editor will send the review reports to the authors including a formal request to modify the paper by seven days as per the suggestions of the reviewers. The corresponding author sends the modified paper to the same Managing Editor and the editor forwards it again to the concerned reviewers of the said paper to justify the modifications. If the paper fails to satisfy the reviewers this time also, then the article is said to be finally rejected. The journal does not proceed with the said paper. However, in case of minor changes, the editor-in-chief may consider the paper for further modifications on the recommendation of the Managing Editor.
  • The accepted paper is processed for publication upon the successful completion of the journal’s terms and conditions. The acceptance letter is issued within five days after the acceptance of the article and fulfillment of all journal’s requirements.
  • Proofreading: Before publishing the processed article, the editor asks the author for any final proofreading, if not, the paper is forwarded to the copyeditor. After copyediting as per the format of JWR, the paper is forwarded to the editor for publication.
  • The paper is published online first. The editor-in-chief will notify the authors about the online publication with the necessary download link. The authors may request any correction in the published paper (in case of extremely important changes) within three days of online publication.
  • The journal is published in print form within two weeks after the online publication.
  • The authors of the published papers will send their correct and complete postal address along with the proper ZIP Code and postal code by three days after print publication through email, the then the hard copy will be posted to the concerned authors. 
  • The editor will send the hard copy of the journal to those authors within one month after print publication.

 

Archiving Backup

Journal of World Researches (JWR) applied for the LOCKSS license that will appear in About the Journal under Archiving: LOCKSS License and CLOCKSS license that will appear in About the Journal under Archiving: CLOCKSS License

 

Open Access Policy

Journal of World Researches (JWR), an OAJ (Open Access Journal), allows humanity to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the part or full texts published immediately on the Journal of World Researches (JWR) site with reference for a legitimate purpose under the license “NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International”.