The goal of peer review is to assess the quality of articles submitted for publication and PADAGANGA follows the following steps before publishing an article / research paper.  

1. Articles submitted are forwarded to the experts in the field.
2. These impartial reviewers are charged with carefully evaluating the quality of the submitted manuscript.
3. The peer reviewers check the manuscript for accuracy and assess the validity of the research methodology and procedures.
4. Based on their review the article / paper may be accepted or submitted for the revision or may be rejected according to the review and recommendation.
5. At present PADAGANGA has not started online and free-lance peer review system and and the same is done by the peer review committee incorporated for this purpose.
6. Open and freelance peer review system may be initiated soon.

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ISSUES & POLICIES RELATED TO ETHICS OF PAPER PUBLICATION

Authorship of the paper:

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study.

Originality and plagiarism:

Original work of the authors is only accepted for publication and authors require citing or quoting clearly when use others work and words.

Data access and retention:

For review purpose and public access the authors required to transfer copy rights of the write-up to the publishers. Once submitted for publication the authors cease copy right of the write up just to make it available for all. Anyhow, the intellectual property rights of the Author are protected as per norms and PADAGANGA may not use the rights acquired other than the purpose revealed here.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication:

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. PADAGANGA tries its best.

Acknowledgement of sources:

Proper acknowledgment is required.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest:

All submissions must include disclosure of all relationships that could be viewed as presenting a potential conflict of interest.

Fundamental errors in published works:

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

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ACCESS

At present printed offline copies are only available which can be held from the given address and steps to make openly accessible are being taken and soon the same will be materialized

PRINTED VOLUMES