Medical Journal Publishing: Continued struggle is essential to Achieve and maintain standards

摘要

During the Year 2019, Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences received a total of one thousand four hundred nineteen manuscripts. Out of this, three hundred twenty five were published, nine were rejected due to plagiarism, thirty one were withdrawn by the authors as they were keen to get it published immediately while the remaining were not accepted for further processing during initial screening for various reasons. . During the same period thirty manuscripts were accepted for fast track processing, twenty five such requests were rejected. Fast track processing facility was started to help those authors who either had to appear in some examination or had to submit their Thesis for PhD or M. Phil and it was essential to get a paper published before that. However, it was also observed that an attempt was made by some authors to misuse this facility as their promotion was due or they just wanted to get their manuscripts published early. Since our objective is to help facilitate authors to publish their research work and not to make money, as a policy it was decided that those who wish to get their papers processed on fast track must first ask for permission, specify the reasons and if accepted only then they should opt for this and arrange fast track processing fee. The idea was to discourage authors to make use of this facility unless it was extremely essential. We do Publication Audit regularly every year as it helps to identify the strength and weaknesses that is very helpful in improving the contents as well as standard of the journal. -