Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. Why choose Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine?
Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine (LSMB) is a rapidly growing journal based in Malaysia. The current focus of the journal is to play a significant role in attracting high-quality manuscripts from the Malaysian and South East Asian scientific community. The journal also aims to reach as widely as possible within the South East Asian and Asian regions in the coming years.
2. What is the scope for Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine?
LSMB is an online open access multidisciplinary journal that welcomes publication in all areas of life sciences, medicine and biomedicine. Some related biological sciences may be considered on a case by case basis.
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts that are original, that are related to the areas listed in the Aims and Scope page of the journal. Fundamental research, pre-clinical data, clinical cases, systematic reviews on the investigation of diseases, their pathophysiology, epidemiology data, current treatment options, diagnostic tools and diagnostic processes, methods development and treatment modalities and other innovations are welcomed.
Please refer to About Our Journal and Aims and Scope of the Journal for more information.
3. Is there a peer-review process in Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine?
Peer review is a crucial and compulsory process in scientific and academic publishing. The peer review process assesses the quality of the submitted manuscript and provides an objective and unbiased feedback platform in ensuring that any published article is scientifically sound and accurate for the benefit of a greater audience.
As you would see in the guide for authors, all manuscripts submitted to Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine will go through a systematic, single-blinded peer review process by expert reviewers in the same field of studies as the author and the scope of the submitted manuscript. All peer review reports provided to authors are anonymous. The identity of the reviewers are never revealed.
Please visit the Editorial Process and Peer Review Policies page to learn more.
4. Is Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine an Open Access Journal?
All articles published in LSMB are published under the Creative Commons License, CC BY license. It means your published papers are immediately and freely made available online.
Please refer to the CC BY license Creative Commons page for more information.
5. Is Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine an indexed journal?
Yes. Currently, LSMB is indexed in Directory of Access Journals (DOAJ), MyCite and MyJurnal. MyCite and MyJurnal is managed by the Citation and Infometric Division, Ministry of Education, Malaysia. Please refer to MyCite and MyJurnal. The journal is also indexed in Scilit. Please refer to LSMB in Scilit.
The journal and the editorial board is working hard to ensure articles published by Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine can be shared as widely as possible and be found by readers globally.
We are currently preparing for the journal to be indexed in the world's leading indexing organization.
6. Is there an Article Processing Charge for accepted papers?
Notice: To provide all necessary support to authors, our Article Processing Charge has been fully WAIVED SINCE 1 JANUARY 2020 until further notice.
Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine is an Open Access journal. To allow global audience access to the manuscripts we publish, and to ensure every segment of the population has free and unlimited access to these resources, we work hard to keep the cost of the entire publication process as minimum as possible.
The journal is managed by internal financial resources of the publisher, including very minimal income from the article processing charges. However, since 1 January 2020, all article processing charges are waived.
Our Article Processing Charge is USD250.00. This charge is to process accepted manuscripts.
There are no charges for submission or reviews.
However, until further notice, the Article Processing Charge (APC) is WAIVED for all accepted manuscripts.
7. Is there an Article Submission Charge?
No. Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine do not charge Article Submission Charges for all manuscripts submitted for peer review to Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicne.
8. Do you accept undergraduate research?
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts that are within the aims and scope of the journal.
Upon submission, the Assistant Editors will conduct initial checks to ensure the manuscript has met all the requirements mentioned in the Guide for Authors before it can proceed for peer review. The authors will be notified on the progress of this checks within a week from the date of submission.
9. We often hear reviewers reject papers on the basis of insufficient results. What is the journal's view on this?
The journal's view is that scientific reporting must be objective, accurate, reproducible and validated. The methodologies and statistical analysis used to carry out the research must be correct and justified. The manuscript must meet all the quality, ethical and best practices requirements of Life Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine.
More importantly, your manuscript must go through the peer review process by experts in the same field of your manuscript. Based on the objective(s) of your study, the results presented and the overall scientific contribution of the manuscript, the editors based on reviewers feedback, will decide on the suitability of pubishing your paper. The journal even encourages authors to submit negative results which in many cases, contribute to the overall understanding of a specific research area.
Please read the Editorial Process and Peer Review Policies to explore more on how peer review plays an important role in scientific publications.
10. How long does the peer-review process takes?
We are unable to state a fixed period of time, or guarantee a time-frame for the peer review process. It depends on a number of factors, including the compliance to the Guide for Authors during submission, how rapidly responses are received from the reviewers and how much time the authors take to respond to the peer review reports, request for additional information and providing better quality images at any stage of the review and/or publication processes. The peer review process also ensures that a minimum number of reports are received before a decision can be made, which in some cases could take considerable amount of time.
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