Scope and Publication Polices

FOCUS AND SCOPE

International Journal of Life Sciences (IJLSCI) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal. It publishes original articles in all areas of Life Science.

Authors are encouraged to submit complete unpublished and original works, which are not under review in any other journals. The scopes of the journal include, but not limited to, the following topic areas: Biology, Life Science, Anatomy, Botany, Cytology, Genetics, Microbiology, Physiology, Zoology, Ecology, Environmental Science, Hydrobiology, Neurobiology, Developmental Biology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Biotechnology, Genomics and Proteomics.

The journal is published in print as well as an online version which is free access and download.

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

The journal uses a single-blind system: the reviewers' identities remain anonymous to authors, while the reviewers can see the authors' identities. Two reviewers from outside and one editor from the journal typically involve in reviewing a submission.

Publication Frequency

Quarterly (4 times in a year) published in March, June, September, December.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

ARCHIVING

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.

AUTHORISATION AND DECLARATION

Authors must accept full responsibility for the content of their articles. The Members of the Editorial Board and the Publisher of the journal are not responsible for the statements and opinions expressed by the authors in their articles/write-up published in the journal. To use the copyrighted material (for example table, figure, etc.), the author/s must seek permission from the Author/s and Publisher of the material and send a copy of the permission letters via e-mail to the Administrative Editor for records. In case, if it is not possible then do not use that material.

While submitting the paper the author (s) must give a declaration that “the article has not been published or sent for publication elsewhere”.