The Journal of Nepalese Prosthodontic Society (JNPS) is the biannual official publication of the Nepalese Prosthodontic Society and is devoted to the field of prosthetic dentistry. The Journal does not charge authors any fee for submitting and publishing their manuscripts.
JNPS invites original research papers, review articles, case studies, reports, and technical notes containing new insight into any aspect of prosthodontic rehabilitation. The journal is particularly interested and welcomes papers in basic and clinical prosthodontic rehabilitation, implant dentistry, new and innovative techniques, and dental materials.
The submitted article must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. The work shall not be published elsewhere without the written consent of the publisher.
Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement:
We also closely follow industry associations and their guidelines, which provide best practice recommendations for the conduct and reporting of medical research.
JNPS abides by:
1. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME) for Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
2. World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) for best editorial practice
3. Council of Science Editors for best editorial practice
3. Committee on Publication Ethics for practising good publication ethics
Publisher
Journal of Nepalese Prosthodontic Society is published by the Nepalese Prosthodontic Society (NPS).
Funding
All expenses of JNPS are incurred by the Nepalese Prosthodontic Society.
Publication Charge Policy
JNPS does not charge any fees for submission, article processing, publication, reading and downloading articles published in JNPS.
Archiving Policy
The print version and digital version of the journal are archived in the NPS office. Further, JNPS is looking forward to making digital archives in the most trusted platform.
Privacy Policy
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. However, the email and phone number of the corresponding author will be made available in correspondence detail of the article.
Complaint Policy
For any concern or complaint regarding publication misconduct, please email at jnepprossoc.2018@gmail.com with your name, affiliation, address with phone number. According to the nature of the complaint, JNPS will take appropriate action.
Conflict of Interest
We require the author, peer reviewer, editors and editorial staff to disclose any potential conflict of interest related to the article and publishing process. We request authors to use the Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form prepared by ICMJE which is a Uniform Disclosure Form for Potential Conflicts of Interest as a means of promoting a standardised approach to such declarations.
Protection of Research Participants and Patient's Rights to Privacy
When reporting studies on humans, indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional or regional) and with the WMA Declaration of Helsinki - Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate whether the institutions or a national research council's guide for or any national law on the care and use of laboratory animals were followed. Evidence of approval by a local Ethics Committee (for both human as well as animal studies) must be supplied by the authors on demand. Animal experimental procedures should be as humane as possible and the details of anaesthetics and analgesics used should be clearly stated. The ethical standards of experiments must be in accordance with the guidelines provided by the CPCSEA (animal) and ICMR (human). The journal will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable. A statement on ethics committee permission and ethical practices must be included in all research articles under the METHODS section.
Case Report: Do not use patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, especially in the illustrative material in the article. A copy of Consent Form must be supplied by the authors on demand.
The author has to submit their manuscript according to JNPS section policy.
All submitted articles will undergo international peer review with blinding for two peer reviewers, simultaneously. If the decision conflicts between the two, it will be sent to a third peer reviewer.
The typical review will take a minimum of 4-6 weeks which includes 2 weeks for peer review and the remaining weeks for the peer review handling process. However, this may take a little longer due to unseen workloads.
When the article is received from a peer reviewer there will be one of the following outcomes and the decision choices include:
Accept Submission: The submission will be accepted without revisions.
Revisions Required: The submission will be accepted after minor changes have been made according to the reviewer's comment.
Resubmit for Review: The submission needs to be reworked, but with significant changes, may be accepted. It will require a second round of review, however.
Resubmit elsewhere: When the submission does not meet the focus and scope of JNPS.
Decline Submission: The submission will not be published in the journal.
The manuscripts are then sent to two expert peer reviewers blinded to the contributor’s identity and vice versa for meticulous review, inputs, and comments. The final decision on whether to accept or reject the article is taken by the Editor-in-Chief based on the editorial board and peer reviewers. The contributors are informed about the rejection/acceptance of the manuscript with the peer reviewer’s comments. Accepted articles have to be resubmitted after making the necessary changes or clarifying questions made during the peer-review process.
The accepted articles are edited for grammatical, punctuation, print style and format errors, and page proofs and are sent to the corresponding author who should return them within three days. Non-response to galley proof may result in the delay of publication or even rejection of the article.
Biannual
JNPS is an open-access journal. Published articles are available to anyone in the world to download for free directly from our website. This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
The Journal does not charge authors any fee for submitting and publishing their manuscripts.
Articles can be submitted online via NepJol.
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