Science Mundi
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SCIENCE MUNDI (Multidisciplinary Universal Nucleus for Dissemination of Innovation and Research in the Sciences) is a pluridisciplinary peer-reviewed journal. The journal provides prompt publication of research articles from diverse social, pure, and applied science fields. All submitted works are subjected to double blind peer review and promptly published on an open-source basis if they meet the requisite criteria. This includes proof of originality, scientific orientation, and relevance to the existing body of literature. Papers are accepted on a rolling basis and published in the current biannual issue. The journal is published in electronic format (PDF). Each research article or work is issued with a unique Document Object Identifier (DOI) and promptly indexed. Submit your work today.

 

Publisher

AJER Publishing
Aghro House
Moi Avenue
Nairobi

Sources of Support

The APC for Science Mundi is 70USD, proceeds from the levy of which support the journal. The journal does not charge readers to access the journal contents. 

Peer Review

• The papers submitted to Science Mundi are subjected rigorously to double-blind peer review.
• No follow-up review is undertaken for rejected articles.
• All articles should be properly cited and the corresponding primary and secondary data sources indicated.

Open Access Policy

Science Mundi is an open-access journal; Licence: CC BY-NC

Publication Scheduling

The journal publishes two issues in one volume per year. 

General

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

For peer-reviewed manuscripts to be published in the journal, all parties involved—authors, reviewers, the chief editor, managing editors, associate editors, editors, and board members—must continuously work together. The chief editor and managing editors are in charge of maintaining the academic record and keeping an eye on publishing ethics. The editorial office takes on the duty of checking the articles for false information or plagiarism. The editorial team's objective is to keep the journal up to the highest publishing standards, which implies not only original, high-quality articles based on research but also any necessary retractions, explanations, and apologies. We value the input that each participant to the works that we publish.

Authors’ Ethics and Responsibility

• Only individuals  acknowledged as authors should be those who made a significant contribution to the paper.
• The submitted paper must be the authors' original work and must not have been previously published.
• Authors must confirm that the article they have submitted has not already been accepted for publication elsewhere.
• Only the articles that have contributed to the author's work should be cited; extraneous citations shouldn't be included.
• Writers should present their work in the most unbiased way feasible.
• Discriminatory arguments based on racial, sexual, national, or religious origin are not accepted. Fake findings should not be reported.
• The authors must certify that all information is accurate and true.
• Authors must submit a corrected version of their work in accordance with the suggestions of the reviewers and must notify the Chief Editor/Editors of any problems in their published paper.

Reviewers' Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the secrecy of the entire evaluation process.
• Rapidly provide a thorough, insightful, and objective assessment of the work's scientific substance.
• Reviewers should find pertinent published works that the authors have not cited.
• Notifying the journal editor of any potential conflicts of interest, whether financial or personal, and rejecting to review a manuscript if one might be present.
• Notifying the journal editor of any ethical issues that come to light while reviewing submitted manuscripts, such as any unethical treatment of animal or human subjects or any striking similarities between the manuscripts being evaluated and previously published articles.

Chief Editor/ Editors' Responsibilities

• Editors decide which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published
• Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication
• Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit
• Peer review assists the editors in making editorial decisions. Editors should publish only peer-reviewed accepted articles
• Editors should have a clear picture of a research's funding sources
• An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.