Peer Review Process

  1. New submissions were firstly directed to the relevant section editor checked for technical issues and plagiarism and define whether or not these submissions (without author names and affiliations, any information in the manuscript that could refer or indicate the author institution name such as the acknowledgment section and others) have to be sent back to the author(s) for resubmission or

  2. The section editors are selected from different universities or institutions of that of the authors to avoid institutional bias and are selected based on their specialty and research interest in order to better assess the quality of the research.

  3. The section editors handle and send the manuscript to 2-4 relevant reviewers at least one international reviewer (Double-Blind review) and follow up the whole peer-review process.

  4. The section editor thereafter sends the reviewer's comments, suggestions, and recommendations to either the editor in chief or executive editor for making the final decision.

  5. After acceptance, the manuscript is sent to the technical editors for preparing the galley proof and the final publication of the manuscript thereafter. 

II. Declarations section must be included in the submitted manuscript and include: 

  • Ethics approval and consent to participate

  • Authors should indicate the ethics committee approval and their numbers in case of original research conducted on animals, humans or upon using any clinical specimens or tissue from humans or patients. The author should mention not applicable if not present

  • Consent to publish 

    • Authors should indicate in their submission the consent of publications and should mention “not applicable” if not present

    • Availability of data and materials

      • All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article in the main manuscript and/or in the additional supplementary file (if present).

      • Competing interests

        • The authors should declare if any competing interest exists or they declare that have no competing interests

        • Funding Statement

          • The authors should declare if any funding was obtained from any agency or any institutional support (if present)

          • or Mention (No funding source was received) if this was unavailable and the article is self-funded by the authors. All authors shared in the design of the study, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript.

          • Authors’ contributions

All authors who contributed to the work presented in this paper should be declared and mention the role and contribution of each author.  All authors must discuss the results approved by the manuscript.

  • Acknowledgment

The authors would like to acknowledge any agency, institution, department or any members for their support and providing facilities whenever needed. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g., providing language help, writing assistance or proofreading the article, etc.). 

III. Copyright and License

Copyright on any open access article published in the AIJPMS journal is retained by the author(s).

Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details, and publisher are identified.

Authors grant Al-Zhar University (Faculty of Pharmacy for Girls) a copyright transfer agreement to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.

Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles under the following conditions: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This is needed to be added to the web page of the journal