Research Integrity

Rigorous Peer Review
  • ​i-Proclaim ensures that all research output in our journals, is thoroughly peer reviewed by external reviewers. Publications of a commentary or opinion nature may not be sent for external peer review but will include extensive editorial review and revisions.
  • All articles submitted to i-Proclaim journal are initially assessed by an Editor, who decides whether or not the article fits the scope of the journal and is suitable for peer-review.
  • Submissions considered suitable for peer-review are assigned to independent experts, who are asked to assess the article for clarity, validity, and sound methodology.
  • Based on the reviewer reports the editor will make a decision to for ask for revisions, accept or reject the submission.
  • If conflicting review feedback is provided, or if the feedback is unclear, then the editor will engage with the reviewers to further discuss the submission and the suggested editorial decision.
  • Overall editorial responsibility rests with the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, who is supported by an expert, consulting editor.
  • i-Proclaim journals can operate double-blind, or blind peer-review processes. Whilst the i-Proclaim encourages double-blind processes, journals are able to choose their preferred review option.
  • We aim to make the review process as efficient as possible, whilst maintaining a quality of reviewer feedback. In most cases, the review period is expected to take under 3/4 weeks.
  • Reviewers are asked to provide formative feedback, even if an article is not deemed suitable for publication in the journal.​
  • All of our journals adhere to the COPE guidelines for best practice. As followers of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), i-Proclaim ensures that our team follows Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers. 
  • Please visit the journal website for specific Editorial Policies.
Anti-plagiarism Checking
  • All articles submitted to i-Proclaim journals are initially assessed (in-house screening) by an Editor/ Managing Editor for overall suitability for the journal. The managing editor will use the Grammarly and Paperrater software for checking the originality of submissions received. 
  • All journal articles and manuscripts are screened for plagiarism by the Originality Check system from Grammerly and Paperrater. This screening system compares incoming submissions to a large database of academic content, and alerts editors to any possible issues.
Licensing
  • All i-Proclaim content is released under licenses from Creative Commons.
  • License: CC-BY-NC 4.0 International License. i-Proclaim journals are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 
  • Articles can be read and shared for noncommercial purposes under the following conditions: [BY: Attribution must be given to the original source (Attribution)]; [NC: Works may not be used for commercial purposes (Noncommercial)].
  • This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge and be non-commercial.
  • i-Proclaim uses the CC BY-NC to protect the author's work from misuse.
License Deed Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Legal Code Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
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Indexing
  • i-Proclaim journals use DOI article identifiers. All article is assigned a Crossref's Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Crossref is a Global DOI Registry. Each paper published in i-Proclaim journals is assigned with a DOI, which appears beneath the author's affiliation in the publication. Click HERE to know what is DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and to retrieve DOIs for i-Proclaim publications. For checking "Authoritative Query", go directly to the responsible site https://dx.doi.org/ .  
  • We strongly encourage authors to take more informed decision before submission of any manuscript. In order to help the authors to take 'more informed decision' and to substantiate our claims. Authors should visit the official site of the indexing organization or journal evaluation services before submitting any manuscript. We hope authors will appreciate our efforts to maintain integrity and transparency.​
  • All of our article metadata is openly available for harvesting by indexing services via OAI-PMH and the journals are registered with Open Archives. Via OAI-PMH, all of our journals are indexed and abstracted in OAI supported World Cat, PKP Index, BASE, and abcGATE.  
  • i-Proclaim journals are indexed in Google Scholar.
  • i-Proclaim journals are included in ICI Journals Master List 2014. 
  • If the journal is not indexed by your preferred service, please let us know by emailing [email protected] or alternatively by making an indexing request directly with the service​
Archiving
  • i-Proclaim uses LOCKSS “lots of copies keep stuff safe”, to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications in the event that i-Proclaim stops publishing temporarily or the journals are no longer published. LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve, and serve the OJS Archival Unit of i-Proclaim.
  • i-Proclaim utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
  • We support and encourage author self-archiving of all content (sometimes termed 'blue'). i-Proclaim journals are RoMEO blue journal. All i-Proclaim journals are registered with SHERPA/RoMEO to ensure that the license terms and self-archiving policies of the journals are 100% clear.
Archiving Policy- 
Pre-print:  author cannot archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
Post-print:  author can archive post-print final draft post-refereeing 
Publisher's Version/PDF:  author can archive publisher's version/PDF​
Professional Affiliations
No Lock-in
  • i-Proclaim uses open, non-proprietary standards for all of its content, meaning that it can be easily transferred to archives and other publishers. 
  • We endorse and adhere to the UKSG Transfer Code of Practice, which ensures that when a journal transfers between publishers, that librarians, editors, and other publishers are informed and treated fairly.
  • Our contracts with societies are also very different to those of other publishers. We do not seek to possess journals content, but instead to support societies in operating them.
  • All copyright to the published content is retained by the authors, i-Proclaim does not retain rights to the published content and the content can be transferred away from i-Proclaim if the society decided to change the publisher.
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