Editorial Policies

This directory brings together JMRIS editorial, publishing and author policies. Select a topic to read the relevant section.

Peer Review and Editorial Decisions

JMRIS uses double-anonymised peer review for research articles and reviews. Authors submit a separate title page and an anonymised manuscript. Editors first assess scope, completeness, originality and ethical compliance; unsuitable submissions may be declined before external review. Manuscripts proceeding to review should receive assessments from at least two independent reviewers with relevant expertise. Reviewer recommendations inform, but do not replace, the editor’s decision. Authors receive the decision and relevant comments and must provide a point-by-point response to requested revisions. Revised manuscripts may undergo further review. Acceptance and publication dates are recorded from actual events; acceptance is never guaranteed. Editorials or notices that do not undergo external review must be identified accordingly.

Editorial Independence and Conflicts of Interest

Editorial decisions depend on scholarly merit, relevance, methods and ethical compliance. Fees, waiver requests, advertising, sponsorship and commercial relationships do not affect assessment or acceptance. Authors disclose financial and non-financial interests and funding, including the funder’s role. Editors and reviewers disclose relevant relationships and recuse themselves when impartial assessment is compromised. Submissions by an editor, board member or publisher representative must be managed by an independent editor; the submitting individual has no role in reviewer selection or the decision.

Reviewer Responsibilities and Confidentiality

Reviewers provide constructive, evidence-based reports, respect agreed deadlines, disclose conflicts and decline work outside their competence. They must not use unpublished material, seek unnecessary citations to their own work, contact authors directly about the review, or share a manuscript without editorial permission. Editors and reviewers must not upload confidential submissions, personal information or review reports to public generative AI services. Suspected misconduct should be reported privately to the editor with supporting evidence.

Authorship and Contributions

Authors must make a substantial intellectual contribution, participate in drafting or critical revision, approve the submitted and final versions, and accept responsibility for their contribution and the integrity of the work. The corresponding author confirms the agreement of all authors. Contributions should be stated, preferably using CRediT roles. Funding, supervision or language assistance alone does not establish authorship; contributors who do not meet authorship criteria should be acknowledged with permission. Requests to add, remove or reorder authors require reasons and written agreement from all affected authors. Unresolved disputes may pause processing and be referred to the relevant institution.

Originality, Plagiarism and Duplicate Publication

Submissions must be original and must not be under consideration elsewhere. Authors disclose related publications, overlapping datasets, preprints and prior dissemination. Properly cited preprints do not by themselves prevent consideration. Plagiarism, undisclosed redundant publication, fabricated or falsified findings, manipulated images, paper-mill submissions and fabricated peer review are unacceptable. Similarity findings require editorial interpretation; a numerical similarity score alone does not determine misconduct. Substantive allegations are assessed fairly, with an opportunity for authors to respond and institutional referral where appropriate.

Research Ethics and Consent

Research involving people must report the approving ethics committee, approval reference where available, and informed consent or a justified, formally approved waiver. Identify applicable trial registration and its timing; do not describe retrospective registration as prospective. Reports containing identifiable personal information or images require explicit consent for publication. Animal studies must report appropriate ethical approval and welfare standards. Authors must obtain necessary permissions for third-party material and comply with relevant field-specific, institutional and legal requirements. Where approval is not required, explain the basis rather than inventing an approval number.

Reporting Standards and Research Integrity

Use the appropriate reporting guideline for the study design, such as CONSORT, PRISMA, STROBE, STARD or CARE where applicable. Systematic reviews must provide reproducible searches and search dates, eligibility and selection methods, included studies, risk-of-bias assessment and synthesis methods. Clearly distinguish narrative reviews, simulations and illustrative examples from original observations. Computational studies should describe datasets, provenance, software, validation, comparison methods, data leakage controls and uncertainty. Editors may request underlying records or clarification where findings cannot be assessed.

Data Availability and Reproducibility

Include a data availability statement explaining where supporting data and code can be accessed, with persistent links where available. If access is restricted, state the reason and any appropriate access procedure. Do not publicly disclose confidential, identifying or restricted material. Authors should retain sufficient records to support their findings and respond to reasonable editorial requests. A claim that data are available on request must reflect an actual, feasible access arrangement.

Artificial Intelligence and Assisted Technologies

AI tools cannot be listed as authors or take responsibility for a publication. Disclose substantive use of generative AI in writing, coding, analysis or image generation, identifying the tool and purpose and explaining relevant human verification. Routine spelling or grammar assistance need not be separately declared unless it materially changes content. Authors remain responsible for accuracy, originality, citations, privacy and permissions. Generated text, references, images or data must not be presented as verified evidence without appropriate validation and transparent description.

References and Citation Ethics

JMRIS uses Vancouver style: number references in order of first citation, use matching numbered citations in the text, and provide a numbered reference list. Verify bibliographic details and include a DOI only when it resolves to the cited work. Cite sources for relevance and evidential value. Purchased citations, citation exchanges, coercive citation requests and irrelevant references added to increase metrics are unacceptable. See the Author Guidelines for manuscript preparation requirements.

Publication Fees

There is no submission fee. The article processing charge is USD 100 per accepted article, payable only after editorial acceptance. The charge supports publication services and does not purchase acceptance. Any applicable payment instructions or transaction charges must be disclosed before payment. No additional journal charge may be imposed without prior disclosure and the author’s agreement. Fee changes apply to new submissions from their announced effective date; authors already in the process must be told of any proposed change before agreeing to it.

Waivers and Discounts

Authors without adequate funding may request a full or partial waiver by emailing editor@jmris.com, identifying the submission and briefly explaining financial need and available funding. Requests may be made at submission or before payment; sensitive supporting information should be limited to what is necessary. Decisions are made case by case according to need and available resources and communicated before payment is requested. A waiver is not guaranteed. Waiver requests, approval or refusal have no effect on peer review, editorial standards, decisions or publication priority. Reviewers are not asked to assess an author’s ability to pay.

Withdrawal, Cancellations and Refunds

Authors may request withdrawal through the submission system or by emailing the editorial office, giving a reason and confirming the agreement of all authors. The journal confirms the status in writing. No fee is due for a manuscript rejected before acceptance. Duplicate or mistaken payments are refundable. If the journal cannot publish an accepted, paid article for reasons attributable to the journal, the publication charge is refundable. Other refund requests are assessed against the services already completed and the circumstances, with a written explanation. Payment does not prevent an ethical investigation or correction of the record; removal of a published article follows the post-publication policy.

Complaints and Appeals

Send complaints or reasoned appeals to editor@jmris.com with the manuscript or article identifier, relevant facts and supporting documents. Appeals should identify a factual, procedural or substantive error rather than simply disagreement with a decision. An editor who was not responsible for the disputed decision should assess the appeal where practicable. Complaints involving an editor are referred to another unconflicted editor or the publisher, as appropriate; a person named in a complaint must not decide it alone. The journal acknowledges receipt, explains the next steps and communicates the outcome. Confidentiality is respected while allowing a fair investigation. Raising a concern in good faith does not prejudice future submissions.

Corrections, Retractions and Post-publication Discussion

Readers may submit evidence-based concerns to the editorial office. The journal investigates substantive errors or integrity concerns and gives relevant authors an opportunity to respond. A correction addresses errors that do not invalidate the central findings; a retraction addresses unreliable findings or serious ethical breaches; an expression of concern may be used while an unresolved matter is investigated. Notices should be clearly labelled, dated, explain the reason and link to the affected article. Published records are not silently replaced to conceal substantive changes. Retractions normally retain the article with a prominent notice. Removal is reserved for exceptional legal, privacy or serious safety circumstances and should leave an explanatory record where possible. Reasoned scholarly discussion may be considered through correspondence subject to editorial assessment.

Open Access, Copyright and Reuse

JMRIS provides open access to its published articles. Authors retain copyright. Unless the individual Version of Record states different terms, articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), permitting sharing and adaptation, including commercial reuse, with appropriate credit, a license link and an indication of changes. Third-party material may have separate permissions. Authors grant the journal the rights needed to publish and distribute their work; copyright is not transferred to the publisher. The license stated on an existing Version of Record continues to govern it. Updating this policy does not retrospectively replace an earlier license.

Self-archiving and Preservation

Authors may deposit preprints, accepted manuscripts and the published version in institutional or subject repositories, subject to the rights applying to each version. Identify the version and, after publication, link to the journal’s Version of Record. For CC BY 4.0 articles, no journal embargo is imposed. The online issue archive provides access to published material but is not itself proof of independent long-term preservation. Participation in an external preservation service will be named here only after activation and verification; no active PKP Preservation Network, LOCKSS or CLOCKSS arrangement is asserted by this policy.

Abstracting, Indexing and Discovery

Readers can search for individual JMRIS articles through Google Scholar, ResearchGate, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar. Availability varies by platform and article; these search routes do not establish journal-level inclusion or complete coverage. Formal indexing, database acceptance and citation metrics will be described only when supported by a direct, independently verifiable record. Applications and technical eligibility are not acceptance. No unverified Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ or PubMed Central inclusion is claimed.

Publisher, Governance and Revenue

Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Integrated Sciences is published by Acadentium Research and issues one volume annually. Its scope and editorial team are available through the links below. Publication charges are a source of journal revenue. Any sponsorship, advertising or sponsored content must be clearly identified and must not influence editorial decisions. Special issues follow the same ethical and review standards; guest editors disclose conflicts and remain subject to editorial oversight. Invitations and promotional messages must accurately describe the journal and must not promise acceptance or use unverifiable metrics.

Privacy and Policy Updates

Personal information is handled for submission, peer review, publication and journal administration as described in the Privacy Statement. Public author metadata and acknowledgements must be accurate and appropriate for publication. Contact support@jmris.com for technical issues and editor@jmris.com for editorial matters. These policies were updated on 14 September 2026 and guide submissions and editorial actions from that date; they do not certify historical compliance. Material changes should be dated and communicated where they affect submissions in progress.

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