Special Issue Policy (New)

The process for publishing conference articles in the Iraqi Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

* Conference research is received exclusively in the field of pharmacy

Our journal could accept research articles from scientific conferences exclusively in Pharmacy specialty and where the sponsor is an academic institution. The conference research publication process should follow the following two steps. The first step includes sending an official email to the editor-in-chief describing their desire to publish their conference research articles in our journal with full information about the conference (sponsor institution, title, specialty, time, etc.). The request should be send at least 4 months before the conference date. In case there is a general acceptance notified by official email, it should follow the second step process illustrated below:

1- The manuscript should be first send to the scientific committee of the conference.

2- After getting acceptance in the conference, the researchers should send their manuscript electronically in a Word format directly to the journal’s website accompanied by certificate of the conference acceptance.

3- The editorial manager will carry out the overall scientific assessment and check out plagiarism.

4- The editorial manager sends the manuscript to the editor-in-chief and members of editorial board and according to their specialization.

5- The editor-in-chief and editorial board members submit their decision either to reject the manuscript or otherwise submit the manuscript to three reviewers

6- The Editor-in-Chief and editorial board members will be notified about the reviewer’s opinions. 

7- The accepted manuscript for publication will be published in the journal’s issues according to the chronology of acceptance. Knowing that our journal issued quarter annual, and each issue has a limited number of published articles.

Guest editor responsibility

The journal suggested a guest editor according to his/her experience For each special issues . The guest editors are responsible for managing the paper and for the quality of the content.
Every paper in issue must maintain the quality/standard of the journal. Research papers must be original, scientifically excellent, without factual/technical errors, and all content must be novel and interesting to a general readership and fit with the title of the special issue and scope of the Iraqi Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The guest editor avoids requesting adding references from their own or a colleague’s article and following the COPE guidelines. Iraqi Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences encourages sending a proposal of a special issue in recent topics that have an international interest.

Iraqi Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (IJPS)  invites author's that will participate in  Conference to upload their submissions by clicking on  Make New Submission