About the Journal
Sources of Support
Institutional funds/publication fee/sales of hard copies
Peer Review
KJMS Review Process
The KJMS follows laid down peer review process to guarantee Journal quality. Our review process is as detailed below
Editor assessment
On submission, a manuscript usually undergoes editorial review to evaluate its suitability for KJMS, authenticity, ethical appropriateness, completeness and whether it is formatted correctly. If the manuscript doesn’t pass this initial check, it is rejected by the editor.
The peer reviews
The review process of KJMS is an editor mediated double blind process. When a manuscript has passed the initial editorial assessment, it is sent out for peer review. The editor identifies and contacts at least two researchers who are experts in the topic and ask them to review the paper within a stipulated time period (2 -4 weeks).
Reviewers are given evaluation criteria (KJMS Review form) which they follow to objectively evaluate the manuscript for Originality, Novelty, Relevance, Satisfactoriness of methodology, data analysis, Presentation and Discussion of the results. The reviewers are also asked to provide comments to the author if any and may also provide feedback confidentially to the Editor.
On receiving the reviewers detailed reports with comments and recommendations on the manuscript, KJMS editorial board study them and make a decision to either Publish the manuscript as it is, Recommend minor revision, Major revision, Resubmission or Rejection of the Manuscript.
The Editor-in-Chief, then makes available the reviews, comments to the author and the editorial board decision on the manuscript to the author(s).
If the manuscript requires revisions, then the author(s) will be advised to follow the reviewer’s comments to revise the manuscript and submit within two weeks.
Upon acceptance, the manuscript will be formatted in accordance with KJMS style and Galley Proof sent to author(s) for proof reading before publication
If the manuscript is rejected, the reviewer/s comment are sent to the author(s) to help them in improving their manuscript for possible submission to another journal.
KJMS works hard to progress manuscripts through the peer review process as quickly as possible and the average interval between submission of a manuscript and final decision is about 2-3 months.
Open Access Policy
KJMS is an open access journal operating under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international Licence (CC BY 4.0). All published content is immediately freely available without charge and users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose as long as they credit the original creation.
Publication Scheduling
This journal publishes twice yearly.
General
Kanem Journal of Medical Sciences was created to serve as an international forum for communication among medical, dental and allied medical scientists, clinicians and other relevant professionals. The Journal provides opportunity for exchange of novel and significant information pertinent to medical and allied medical sciences. We publish reports on medical, dental and allied medical sciences in the form of original articles.
