Article Submission:

Shodh Sari- An International Multidisciplinary Journal is an open access journal and remain open for general submissions year-round. Faculty and researchers from different disciplines could submit their articles electronically at shodhsari@icert.org.in

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• Please visit the Submission Guidelines for further information.

• Please note this journal accept articles in English and Hindi only.

• Only high quality, original and unpublished research articles will be accepted.

• There is no publication fee/ or publication charges or article processing fee for this journal. This platform provides free of cost publication opportunities to the education fraternity.

• A certificate of publication, a soft copy of the article with article access link will be shared with authors.

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Editorial Review and Peer Review

All submissions to Shodh Sari Journal are first reviewed for completeness and only then sent to be assessed by an Editor who will decide whether they are suitable for peer review. Where an Editor is on the author list or has any other competing interest regarding a specific manuscript, another member of the Editorial Board will be assigned to oversee peer review. Editors will consider the peer-reviewed reports when making a decision, but are not bound by the opinions or recommendations therein. Authors receive peer review reports with the editorial decision on their manuscript.

Editor(s) to obtain a minimum of two peer reviewers for manuscripts especially to discipline specific. Peer review reports should be in English and provide constructive critical evaluations of the authors’ work, particularly in relation to the appropriateness of methods used, whether the results are accurate, and whether the conclusions are supported by the results. Editorial decisions should be based on peer reviewer comments that meet these criteria rather than on recommendations made by short, superficial peer reviewer reports which do not provide a rationale for the recommendations.

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Peer reviewers are expected to provide an assessment on the following aspects of manuscripts, key results, validity, originality, significance, data and methodology, statistics, conclusion, clarity, contexts, references, and suggested improvements.

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Communications between Editors and peer reviewers contain confidential information that should not be shared with third parties. 

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Plagiarism Policy:

Shodh Sari only accept high quality, original and unpublished research articles. We are strictly against any unethical act of copying or plagiarism in any form. All manuscripts submitted for publication are cross-checked for plagiarism by Crossref Similarity Check/ Turnitin iThenticate. Manuscripts found to be plagiarized during initial stages of review will be rejected and not considered for publication in the journal. In case a manuscript is found to be plagiarized after publication, the Editor-in-Chief will conduct preliminary investigation, may be with the help of a suitable committee constituted for the purpose.

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We respect intellectual property and aims at protecting and promoting original work of its authors. Manuscripts containing plagiarized material are against the standards of quality, research and innovation. Hence, all authors submitting articles are expected to abide ethical standards and abstain from plagiarism, in any form.

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Editor-in-Chief shall take serious action against published manuscripts found to contain plagiarism, as recommended by or as deemed fit for the instant case or as decided by the Editorial Board, from time to time.

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Ethical Statement

Shodh Sari ensure the publication of high-quality original research having public trust and impact. The publisher remains constrained by requirements such as the copyright, infringement and plagiarism following the norms prescribed by the COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) to support publication ethics. The publisher shall be responsible for keeping all correspondences secret and under no circumstance shall disclose anything that goes against the interest of authors, referees and editors of the journal. Stakeholder including the authors, reviewers and editors in publication and review process, are supposed to carefully follow the publication ethics and discourage publication malpractices of any kind.
Authors should refrain from misrepresenting research results which could damage the trust in the journal, the professionalism, and ultimately the entire research community & endeavour. The manuscript should not be submitted to more than one publication for simultaneous consideration. The submitted work should be original and should not have been published elsewhere in any form or language (partially or in full), unless the new work concerns an expansion of previous work. (Please provide transparency on the re-use of material to avoid the concerns about text-recycling (‘self-plagiarism’). A single study should not be split up into several parts to increase the quantity of submissions and submitted to various publications or to one publication over time (i.e.  ‘salami-slicing/publishing’). Concurrent or secondary publication is sometimes justifiable, provided certain conditions are met. Results should be presented clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation (including image-based manipulation). Authors should adhere to discipline-specific rules for acquiring, selecting and processing data. No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own (‘plagiarism’). Proper acknowledgements to other works must be given (this includes material that is closely copied (near verbatim), summarized and/or paraphrased), quotation marks (to indicate words taken from another source) are used for verbatim copying of material, and permissions secured for material that is copyrighted.
If there is suspicion of misbehaviour or alleged fraud the Journal and/or Publisher will carry out an investigation following COPE guidelines.  If, after investigation, there are valid concerns, the author(s) concerned will be contacted under their given e-mail address and given an opportunity to address the issue.