About the Journal
Sources of Support
Article publication charges are the only support for the journal. The publisher supports the journal otherwise.
Subscription information
The journal is published only electronic version free of charges.
Peer Review
Step 1. Manuscript submission
This means that the author of the paper submits the article to the journal.
If the authors are not familiar with the process of submitting manuscripts for publication or communicating with a journal’s editors, they may ask an expert to submit the manuscript in their behalf. This expert’s name should not be added to the list of authors unless he/she also meets the criteria for authorship. Please refer to the criteria of authorship provided by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) on this link: http://www.icmje.org.
Authors are required to submit three files, i.e., a cover letter, the manuscript, and a completed conflict of interest (COI) form. Please visit the section “Instruction for authors/ authors’ guidelines”, on our website for further information and to download the COI form and a sample cover letter. Also the authors should propose three (3) reviewers, outside their institutions. An automated manuscript submission and review system is available on the website.
Any authors who are not familiar with online manuscript submissions may submit their manuscripts by email, and we will add the manuscripts to the automated system. for more information about manuscript submission please click here.
Step 2. Acknowledgments of submission
By online submission system, the authors are notified of their submission automatically upon successful submission. By email submission, the author(s) will receive an email from the editorial office referring to the manuscript number and acknowledging receipt of the manuscript within 1-3 days. If the acknowledgement email from the editorial office has not been received within one week, authors should contact us with Whatsapp or Telegram applications at: +21355016866, mentioning their email address, their names, and the title of manuscript.
Step 3: Review sessions
In this step, the editor will send the manuscript to the reviewers. In our experience, most of the delays in peer review arise from inadequate communication between the associate editors of academic journals and the reviewers. Sometimes the invited reviewers forget to check their email or may not have time to open emails identified as “Invitation for manuscript review.” Sometimes, they do not inform the journal’s editors concerning whether or not they plan to review the manuscript. Sometimes, they agree to review a manuscript and forget to do so or do not provide their review comments in a reasonable amount of time. Therefore, Medical Technologies Journal planned a new standard operating procedure (SOP) for its peer-review system. The submission system send automatically a notification for reviewers if this last is selected by editors, the deadline of acceptance of a manuscript for revision is only one week by reviewers, a second email reminding reviewers after two weeks. The reviewers could reject or accept to participate in the revision process only in these two weeks. We ask all reviewers to perform their reviews as soon as possible, preferably within two weeks. However, we understand that, sometimes, reviewers will require additional time. In any case, members of our editorial office will contact the reviewers weekly to ensure that the reviews are received in the shortest possible time.
The Journal has 5 decision categories by reviewers:
1. Accept submission: The manuscript is publishable in its current form with No Changes
2. Revisions required: Prior to publication, some details of organization, grammar, examples, etc. need to be cleaned up. In general, this should only require a quick re-review by the editors.
3. Resubmit for review: Prior to publication, some major work is required on organization, grammar, examples, logic, etc. If this manuscript is revised, it will be sent out for re-review, typically to the original reviewers.
4. Resubmit elsewhere: the manuscript is outside of the reviewer's competences. In general, this should only require another reviewer for the submission.
5. Decline Submission: There is no merit whatsoever in publishing this paper in MTJ. This could be because the paper is not within MTJ's scope or due to technical/stylistic defects.
Step 4: Initial result of submission
After the first round of review, the manuscript may be rejected or accepted with minor or major revisions. It is possible that we also could accept a manuscript without revision, but this has never happened. Thus, manuscripts that are initially accepted must be revised by the author(s) based on the reviewers’ comments and suggestions. The manuscript will be accepted only if all reviewers accept the rectified manuscript.
Step 5. Screening the manuscript against plagiarism
In this step, iThenticate is used to check the manuscript for similarity index and probable plagiarism. The author will receive the report of iThenticate and the similarity index, and, if required, the author must paraphrase some sentences and paragraphs in the manuscript to make it plagiarism free. The journal may conduct plagiarism screening during any step in the review process.
Step 6. English editing
In this step, the revised manuscript will be sent for native English editing. An additional reviewing step will be performed for advanced English editing on all accepted articles. Since the native English editors provide numerous comments to the authors, we consider the editing step as the final reviewers' comments before preparing the pre-publication version of the manuscripts.
Step 7. Galley proof
After revising the manuscript based on the reviewers’ comments and the English editor’s input, the final pre-publication version of the manuscript will be prepared and sent to the author(s) for final checking and approval.
Step 8. Publication of paper
After receiving the final approval from the author(s), a digital object identifier (DOI) will be assigned to the article, and it will be sent for final layout design and publication.
Step 9. Payment of Article Publication Charges
APC In this step, the author(s) whose manuscripts are accepted for publication must pay the APC and taxes to the journal’s publisher company “Knowledge Kingdom Publishing”. All manuscripts will be published for open access. The APC includes Editing, similarity check, DOI Charges and Taxes. The APC payment is applied from 2018 and defined in the link.
Publication Scheduling
This journal publishes four issues a year in one volume.
Publisher information
Knowledge Kingdom Publishing is an Algerian corporation for journals and books publishing, founded in 2017, for funding and publishing scholarly e-books, Proceedings and e-journals. All domains of STEM (Scientific/Sciences, Technical, Engineering, Medicine) are covered. Sections are available for main area like: Account & Accounting, Administration, Agriculture, Aviation Science, Business, Journalism, Law, Language, Literature & Art, Management, Sociology, Sports Sciences, Traffic and Transportation, etc. Knowledge kingdom publishing published five scholarly e-journals in open access and 10 e-books. More than 1500 articles are published and indexed in reputed databases. The journals received an international acceptance with a relevant rate of citations in the indexing databases. The publisher adopts the open access as a fruitful operation to contribute in the scientific progress. By funding and publishing high quality contents the publisher is inviting the community of researchers to contribute in the development of the next generation of scientific achievements. Serving the society and the humanity is the honor of all participants of this company.
