Editorial Policy

The following are the editorial policies of Research Summit:

1.      Research Summit will accept only those manuscripts prepared in accordance with ICMJE guidelines.

2.      The manuscript submitted to the Research Summit should not have previously been submitted, published, or under process of publication in any other journal.  

3.      Only high ethical value and plagiarism-free research work will be considered for publication.

4.      Submission of the article does not guarantee publication. All the submitted articles will be processed through double-blind peer review (as peer-reviewed policy). 

5.      Research Summit follows the Authorship criteria according to the ICMJE guidelines. The journal will publish only one article by an author as 1^st author.

6.      Authors will assign a corresponding author who will be responsible for communication with the editors. 

7.      Authors should sign and submit an undertaking stating;

a.      that the submitted research work is their original work,

b.      that they also fulfill the authorship criteria and

c.       that the submitted work has not been submitted anywhere else. 

8.      In a single-institution study, up to six authors are allowed. In a multi-center or internationally collaborative research work, guidance will be sought from the Editorial Board based on individual cases. 

9.      An author can publish only one article as 1^st author in a single issue.

10.  The articles from editorial board members will not be published.

11.  Any publication misconduct will be dealt with according to COPE guidelines.

12. The Research Summit is responsible for maintaining a complete archive of articles on the website in the archive section.