http://publication.pumhs.edu.pk/index.php/ojs/issue/feed Journal of Peoples University of Medical & Health Sciences Nawabshah. (JPUMHS) 2025-12-31T00:00:00+05:00 Dr Anwar Ali Jamali jpumhs@pumhs.edu.pk Open Journal Systems <ul> <li>Details of <strong>ALL AUTHORS</strong> including full names, degrees, affiliated institute, institutional title, e- mail address, corresponding address and phone</li> <li>The journal will only correspond with the assigned corresponding</li> <li>Contributions of all authors in accordance with <strong>ICMJE guidelines</strong>.</li> <li>Declaration of <strong><u>Conflict of interest</u></strong> and funding information</li> </ul> <p>Before proceeding for submission of this manuscript, please follow the link:</p> <p>Complete the checklist and make sure that the manuscript is prepared according to the checklist. After completing the checklist, email the duly signed checklist by corresponding author, to editor thru email:</p> <p><a href="mailto:jpumhs@pumhs.edu.pk">jpumhs@pumhs.edu.pk</a></p> <p><strong>Important note: </strong>Delay in compliance and incomplete documentation may lead to delay in the processing of your manuscript.</p> <p><strong>Review Process</strong></p> <p>JPUMHS has a uniform and structured, <strong>blind peer-review</strong> process during which all manuscripts go through certain steps before a manuscript is accepted for publication. A manuscript goes through following steps during JPUMHS review process.</p> <ol> <li>After receiving a manuscript will be sent for initial <strong>Editorial review</strong>, to assess whether the submitted manuscript is written according to <strong><u>ICMJE authors guidelines</u></strong> and format and suitable for review or If manuscript is found suitable for further processing the correspondence author is informed within <strong><u>02 weeks</u></strong> regarding acceptance for further processing otherwise the author is asked to re-submit his manuscript after making necessary amendments as per <strong><u>ICMJE</u></strong> guidelines and format.</li> <li>After acceptance for processing a unique Ref will be allotted to the manuscript which will be used for future correspondence.</li> <li>After Editorial Review, the manuscript will checked thru <strong><u>TURNITIN Plagiarism Checker</u></strong> and sent to the Plagiarism Committee for judging Similarity Index (SI). The Technical assistant will submit its report within 02 weeks regarding Similarity If the report has similarity index &lt;=17%, then benefit of doubt may be given to the author but, in case, any single source has similarity index</li> </ol> <p>&gt;=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 permissible limit.</p> <ol start="4"> <li>In next step, the manuscript will be sent to reviewers of concerned specialty who will review the manuscript meticulously keeping in view all technical The reviewers will submit their review report within <strong><u>six weeks</u></strong>.</li> <li>After receiving the reviewers comments, the correspondence author will be informed immediately about the reviewers comments and asked to make necessary amendments in manuscript in the light of reviewers comments or give their comments where he don't agree with the reviewers comments within two</li> <li>After receiving the amended version from 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 This process will take <strong><u>two weeks </u></strong>to complete.</li> </ol>