Review

Review Process

AJDM  has a uniform and structured, double-blind peer-review process during which all manuscripts go through certain steps before a manuscript is accepted for publication. A manuscript goes through the following steps during the AJDM review process.

  1. After receiving a manuscript will be sent for initial Editorial review, to assess whether the submitted manuscript is written according to AJDM authors guidelines and format and suitable for review or not. If the manuscript is found suitable for further processing the correspondence author is informed within 02 weeks regarding acceptance for further processing otherwise the author is asked to re-submit his manuscript after making necessary amendments as per AJDM guidelines and format.
  2. After acceptance for processing a unique Ref No. will be allotted to the manuscript which will be used for future correspondence. In addition, for E-tracking through the AJDM  Web site, a Tracking number will also be allotted to the correspondence author so that the manuscript can be tracked regarding the progress of the review process.
  3. After Editorial Review, the manuscript will be sent to the Plagiarism Committee for judging Similarity Index (SI). The Technical Editor will submit its report within 02 weeks regarding Similarity Index. If the report has a similarity index <=19%, then benefit of doubt may be given to the author but, in case, any single source has a similarity index >=5% without citation then it needs to be revised and will be sent back to the author for revision to bring similarity index down to the permissible limit.
  4. In the next step, the manuscript will be sent to two reviewers (one internal/one external) of the concerned specialty who will review the manuscript meticulously keeping in view all technical details. The reviewers will submit their review reports within four weeks.
  5. After receiving the reviewer's comments, the correspondence author will be informed immediately about the reviewer's comments and asked to make necessary amendments in the manuscript in the light of the reviewer's comments or give their comments where he doesn’t agree with the reviewer's comments within one week.
  6. After receiving the amended version from the author, the manuscript will be evaluated by the Editorial Committee to see whether necessary amendments advised by reviewers were incorporated in the manuscript properly or not and whether the manuscript needs further review or not. This process will take two weeks to complete.
  7. If the editorial board decides that manuscript needs no further amendments or review, then the correspondence author will be informed about the acceptance of a manuscript for publication, and the print version of the accepted manuscript is finally sent to the author for final proofreading.
  8. After receiving the print version from the author, the manuscript will be shortlisted for forthcoming issues and put on a priority list which will be decided by Editorial Board and the author will be informed regarding the volume and issue number of the AJDM
  9. The accepted print version of the manuscript will also be uploaded on the AJDM website in the Ahead of Publication domain.

The minimum process of the manuscript is about four months but it varies depending upon the response from reviewers and authors.