HAFED POLY Journal of Science, Management and Technology
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Publisher

Hussaini Adamu Federal Polytechnic

Sources of Support

The Journal benefits from Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) sponsorship.

Peer Review

The evaluation of manuscripts is carried out by the journal’s Editors and the invited external  peer reviewers according to the laydown procedures. The editorial process and peer-review  workflow for the journal articles are taken care of by the Editor, Editorial Board Members  (EABMs) who have expertise in their specific fields and the publication managers. The JSMT 

journal follows single-blind and Open peer review policy for submissions of all manuscripts to its  journals. The services of the Editor and Editorial Board Members are sought through invitations  to organize and conduct the peer-review of a submitted manuscript, keeping in view the scope of  the journal, and the expertise of the editorial board members and adhoc review committee  members. Manuscripts are forwarded for evaluation to Editors initially and then subsequently to  independent external reviewers to check if the research work presented in the manuscript: 

1. Falls within the scope of the journal and 
2. Meets the editorial criteria of JSMT in terms of originality and quality. The reviewers are selected according to their expertise, from our regularly updated referee  database. On the basis of reviewer comments, the Editors may recommend acceptance, revision  or rejection of a manuscript. After review of the manuscript by at least three independent experts,  in addition to the views of the Editor, the decision is relayed to the authors, which may be  categorized as: 

? Accept manuscript as it is 

? Effect Minor Corrections 

? Effect Moderate Revision 

? Effect Major Revision 

? Reject Manuscript  

SELECTION OF REVIEWERS 

The Editor-in-Chief (EiC) and Editor of the journal together with the publication manager have the right  to select reviewers for a particular manuscript considering the knowledge and experience of the  reviewers. Before sending the manuscripts to a reviewer, JSMT seeks consent from potential reviewers  about their availability and willingness to carry out a review. The correspondence between the editorial  office of the journal and reviewers is kept strictly confidential. The author does not know who has  conducted the review on his or her manuscript.

PURPOSE OF A REVIEW 

A review report provides the Editor-in-Chief/Editor with an expert opinion on the quality of the  manuscript under consideration. It also supplies authors with explicit feedback on how to improve their  papers to make them acceptable for publication in the journal. Although confidential comments to the  editors are not relayed to authors, any remarks that may help improve the quality of the manuscript are  forwarded to the authors for their consideration. A good review report answers the following important  questions: 

1. Is the work novel and of high standards? 
2. What are the main findings of the paper? Is relevant work of other authors in the field  appropriately acknowledged and references given to the previous literature? 

iii. Do the experimental data support the declarations? If not, what other evidence may prove  fruitful? 

1. What kind of readers would benefit from the manuscript and why? 
2. In what further directions would it be feasible to take the current research? 

IMPORTANT POINTS TO CONSIDER 

Reviewers are expected to provide advice on the following points in their review reports: 

1. Is the manuscript written comprehensively enough to be understandable? If not, how could it be  improved? 
2. Have adequate proofs been provided for the declarations? 

iii. Have the authors addressed the previous findings fairly? 

1. Does the paper offer enough details of its methodology to reproduce the experiments? v. JMST encourages authors to publish detailed protocols as supporting information. Do any particular  methods used in the manuscript warrant such a protocol? 

PRIVACY STATEMENT 

The peer-review of a manuscript is a confidential process. Reviewers should keep the whole process  completely confidential. They should consult the EiC/ Editor and obtain permission before consulting  another colleague for help in the peer-review of the submitted manuscript. Reviewers should not  disclose any information whatsoever to anyone before publication of the manuscript. 

PROMPT REVIEW 

The reviewers are expected to provide their reports in a timely fashion since a prompt review leads to  the timely publication of a manuscript which is beneficial not only for the authors but for the scientific  and academic community as well. 

CHANGES IN REVIEW REPORTS 

The Editorial staff relays the comments of the reviewers on behalf of the Editor-in-Chief/Handling  Editor. The review reports are edited by Editor-in-Chief/Handling Editor if the comments contain  confidential information or these are written in a language not suitable for scholarly communication.  Reviewers should include such comments in the confidential section of the review form, which is  intended to be read by the editors only.

Open Access Policy

All articles published in the HAFED Poly Journal of Science, Management and Technology are of Open Access (OA).
? Authors can copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material since all the papers are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.
? Community standards, rather than copyright law, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work.

Publication Scheduling

This journal publishes one volume in two issues per year.

General

Hussaini Adamu Federal Polytechnic is a Technical Institution offering Technical Education Programmes leading to the award of Diplomas/Certificates such as the National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) under the regulations of National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Federal Ministry of Education , Nigeria. The products of the institution will have entry level employment skills to function as Technicians, Higher Technicians/Technologists and middle class manpower in administration in their various fields of specialization.