Journal's Policies

Journal Policies and Privacy Statement

Editorial Policy:

The Archives of Life Sciences is a bi-annually published, peer reviewed, open access journal. It accepts research articles in all areas of basic and applied biology. The journal publishes articles including, original articles, review, case report, editorial, and short communication. All articles submitted to the journal are free of charge. There are no peer review or publication charges, and all the work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Peer Review Policy:

The Archives of Life Sciences employs double blind reviewing, in which the reviewer remains anonymous to the author(s) throughout and following the review process, whilst the identity of the author(s) is likewise unknown to the reviewers. Reviewers are requested to evaluate whether the manuscript:

  • Is original as to thought and method (including data)
  • Is methodologically sound
  • Has results which are clearly presented and support the conclusions
  • Correctly and exhaustively references previous relevant work
  • Follows appropriate ethical guidelines, especially as concerns plagiarism
  • Clearly adds to the knowledge and development of the field

Language correction is not part of the peer review process, but reviewers are encouraged to suggest corrections of language and style to the manuscript. In rare cases, the manuscript may be returned to the author(s) for a full linguistic and stylistic revision. The chief editor's decision is final.

The whole process from submission to acceptance of the manuscript takes around 12-14 weeks on average.

Guidelines on Ethical Conduct:

For primary research manuscripts reporting experiments on living vertebrates and/or higher invertebrates, the corresponding authors must confirm that all experiments were conducted in compliance with relevant guidelines and regulations. Any relevant details about the institution, licensing committee, and/or approval committee for the experiments must be included in the manuscript. Research involving human subjects must follow the Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-helsinki/). When submitting a manuscript, authors must identify the ethics committee approving the study, including its name and reference number.

Journal Policies on Authorship:

The Archives of Life Sciences follows the ICMJE recommendations on authorship credits, which aim to ensure that only those who have made substantial contribution to the research are named as authors.

Plagiarism Policy:

The plagiarism policy for the Archives of Life Sciences mandates that all submitted manuscripts are thoroughly reviewed for originality both during submission and prior to publication. The Archives of Life Sciences utilizes Turnitin to conduct similarity checks, and any article with a similarity index exceeding 18% is returned to the authors for clarification or correction. 

Copyright Policy:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository, in a journal or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.

Authors are encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in their institutional repositories or on their website) only after publication online.

When uploading, disseminating or repurposing Open Access publications, the journal should be clearly identified as the original source and proper citation information provided. In addition to the Version of Record (final published version), authors should deposit the URL/DOI of their published article in any repository.

Open Access Policy:

All Research articles published by the Archive of Life Sciences are published by default as open access (irrespective of who funded the research) and reuse is permitted in accordance with the terms of the relevant applicable open access licence. Open Access is the condition where the copyright holder of a scholarly work grants usage rights to others using an open license (Creative Commons or equivalent) allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose (DOAJ).

 

Funding:

The Archives of Life Sciences requires authors to state all sources of funding for their research.

Privacy Statement:

We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. Any personal data collected during the submission, review, and publication process is used solely for journal-related purposes, such as communication, peer review, and publication management.

Journal Policies on Conflicts of Interest:

Any conflict of interest should be declared by all authors.