TJPBS Policies

Open Access Policy

All the published manuscripts in TJPBS are freely available to view, download and share without taking prior permission from the publisher or the author. However, duly acknowledgement to the original author must be given. Author(s) retain the copyright of their work, with articles licensed to TJPBS. All the published articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License CC BY-NC.

Peer-Review Policy

All the submitted manuscripts shall be checked for plagiarism/ similarity index, manuscripts having less than 10 percent of the similarity index will be subjected to the editorial review. Once manuscript is found satisfactory after editorial review then it will be subjected to a double-blinded peer-review process. Each paper will be evaluated by one external reviewer and one internal reviewer. In accordance with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines on ethical editing for Editors, the submissions of the editors and editorial board members will not be handled by themselves however; a guest editor or other editorial board members will be assigned for such manuscripts