Dama Academic Scholarly & Scientific Research Society applies a double blind peer review. Referees remain anonymous for the author during the review procedure and the authors name is removed from the manuscript under review. Only after publication, and only with the permission of the referee, the names of the reviewers are published in the article.

Each article is first assessed by two of the editors of the editorial board and, if it is judged suitable for Dama Academic Scholarly & Scientific Research Society, it is sent to two or three external referees for a double blind peer review. PIJR uses three different review forms (Research and Theory, Integrated Care Cases, Policy papers) all of which apply scientific criteria and take account of the purpose of the article and its merits for integrated care.

Based on the recommendations of the reviewers, the editors then decide whether the paper should be accepted as is, revised or rejected. In case of revisions, a final decision on publication will be made after resubmission. If there is no agreement on the part of the editors, the editor-in-chief will make the final decision.

Publication Decisions

The editor of a peer-reviewed journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published, often working in conjunction with the relevant society (for society-owned or sponsored journals). The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers (or society officers) in making this decision.

Fair play

An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. 

Confidentiality
Editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate. 

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Editors should reuse themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication. If needed, other appropriate action should be taken, such as the publication of a retraction or expression of concern. It should be ensured that the peer-review process for sponsored supplements is the same as that used for the main journal. Items in sponsored supplements should be accepted solely on the basis of academic merit and interest to readers and not be influenced by commercial considerations. Non-peer reviewed sections of their journal should be clearly identified.

Involvement and Cooperation in Investigations

An editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher (or society). Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies, and if the complaint is upheld, the publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, as may be relevant even if it is discovered years after publication.

Format & Style:

Manuscripts: All manuscripts must be printed in letter quality (font size 10) in double space on one side of A4 paper with margins of at least one inch on all sides.

• Language: The language of the manuscript must be in English.
• Length of paper: The length of the paper should not exceed 25 pages. Paper containing more than 25 pages words will be returned to the author(s) to a bridge. Articles should be typed in double-space (including footnotes and references) on one side of the paper only (preferably A4) with wide margins & Justifying. Authors are urged to write as concisely as possible, but not at the expense of clarity.
• Title Page: Title page is a separated page before the text. It should include the following information. Tile should be concise and informative. Try to avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
• Author’s names and affiliations: Please indicate the given name and family name clearly. Present the authors’ affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author’s name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name, and, if available, the e-mail address, and telephone number of each author.
• Keywords: Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 8 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, ‘and’, of).
• Subdivision of the article: Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered A, B. (then a, b, or, i, ii, etc. The abstract is not included in section numbering.
• References: Author(s) should follow the latest edition of APA style in referencing. Please visit www.apastyle.org to learn more about APA style Citations in the text. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Avoid citation in the abstract. Unpublished results and personal communications should not be in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. Citation of a reference as in press implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
• Submission Preparation Checklist: Before submitting the manuscript, author(s) should check the following list. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration. The submission file is in Microsoft Word file/ PDF format. Manuscript has been made in the light of Journal’s author guidelines. Author(s) did not mention his or her name and affiliation in the main text. Author(s) has read all the terms and conditions of the journal.

Cover Page: Manuscripts of a paper should have a cover page providing the title of the paper, the name(s), address, phone, fax numbers and e-mail address of all authors and acknowledgments, if any. Please restrict the author related information only to cover page. Further, please mention the subject under which the paper should be included.

Abstract: Following the cover page, there should be an “abstract” page, which should contain the title of paper, the subtitle “Abstract” and a summary of the paper in double space. It should not exceed 150 words in length along with three to four key words. The text of the paper should not start on this page, but on a fresh page. References should be cited in the style prescribed in the publication manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Guidelines). A concise and factual abstract is required (maximum length of 200 words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. References should therefore be avoided, but if essential, they must be cited in full, without reference to the reference list.Please visit URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/apa 

Figures & Tables: Each figure/table should be numbered, titled. The position of figure or table should be indicated in the text on a separate line with the words “Table 1 about here”

Length of the Papers: The total length of the paper should not exceed 2000 words (Includes maximum 2 to 3 charts/table/figures in total, paper with more charts/table/figure shall have to pay atleast Rs.500/- extra). For every additional 750 words an extra Rs. 500/- will be charged.

Publication Fees

Dama Academic Scholarly Journal of Researchers is a self-supporting organization and does not receive funding from any institution/government. Hence, the management of the Journals is solely financed by the processing fees received from authors. The manuscript processing fees are required to meet operations expenses such as employees’ salaries, internet services, webhosting, application development and support, electricity etc. Being an Open Access Publisher, Academic Journals does not receive payment for subscription as the journals are freely accessible over the internet.

Authors are required to pay a fair manuscript processing fee for the processing of their articles.  However, there are no submission charges. Authors are required to make payment only after their manuscripts have been accepted for publication. See Manuscript Processing Fees in the table below.

 Waiver Policy

Dama Academic Scholarly Journal of Researchers may grants waivers to some authors who are unable to afford manuscript processing fee. Authors who wish to apply for waivers must demonstrate their inability to afford the manuscript processing fee. Upon application, corresponding authors from Low Income Countries may be granted up to 75% waiver. See World Bank list of Low Income Countries http://data.worldbank.org/income-level/low-income. Upon application, corresponding authors from Lower Middle Income Countries may be granted up to 40% waiver. See World Bank list of Low Middle Income Countries. http://data.worldbank.org/income-level/lower-middle-income. Corresponding authors requesting for these waivers must strongly demonstrate why their waiver applications should be granted.  Authors who are eligible for waivers should apply immediately after the submission of their manuscripts. Request for a waiver must be sent to the Accounts Unit same day a manuscript is submitted. Please send your application for waiver to editor@damaacademia.com

Waiver Application Process

Author(s) requesting for a waiver must strongly demonstrate why their waiver applications should be granted, Request for a waiver must be sent same day a manuscript is submitted, Academic Journals reserve the right to approve or reject a waiver application. Waiver decision will be communicated to the corresponding author within two weeks after the application is received. Waiver request should contain the following information

• Manuscript number
• Manuscript title
• Corresponding Author Affiliation and Country
• List co-author(s) Affiliation(s) and Country
• Reason for requesting a waiver

Open access publishing DASSRS is an open access publication and its content is therefore free for anybody to access online, to read and download, as well as to copy and disseminate for educational purposes. Articles are published immediately upon acceptance and production of the final formatted version. When published online. Dama Academic Scholarly Journal of Researchers is endeavors monthly, international, refereed journal published with the aim to provide an online publishing platform for the academia, researchers, and students to publish their original works to promote and disseminate knowledge in the complex multi-disciplinary management, Science, and Technology field.

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Authors are responsible for recognizing and disclosing financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work. They should acknowledge in the manuscript all financial support for the work and other financial or personal connections to the work. Public trust in the peer review process and the credibility of published articles depend in part on how well conflict of interest is handled during writing, peer review, and editorial decision making. Conflict of interest exists when an author (or the authors institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence (bias) his or her actions (such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties). These relationships vary from those with negligible potential to those with great potential to influence judgment, and not all relationships represent true conflict of interest. The potential for conflict of interest can exist whether or not an individual believes that the relationship affects his or her scientific judgment. Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal, the authors, and of science itself. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion.

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Dama Academic Scholarly Journal of Researchers shall not take any accountability for the contents of articles published in the journal and all such liability shall lie with the author/s.

The opinions expressed in the articles are exclusively of the author/s and Dama Academic Scholarly Journal of Researchers may not agree with such opinions in part or in full. All the articles submitted for publication in Dama Academic Scholarly Journal of Researchers are peer reviewed for genuineness, moral issues and effectiveness.

Decision of the reviewers shall be held final. Authors are solely responsible for uniqueness of the published work. Dama Academic Scholarly Journal of Researchers shall advocate the highest ethical standards of scientific publications.

The Journal retains the copyrights of all material published in the issue. However, reproduction of the published material in the part or total in any form is permitted with due acknowledgement of the source as per ethical norms.

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Only Articles those are submitted using Final Submission Link will be published Online on either Scheduled Date of Publication Issue desired by Corresponding Author. Offline Final Submissions will not be processed unless there is a genuine reason to which Editor in Chief agrees. Dama International Researchers does Not Print Hard copy of Journal or Article. It is an Online Journal only. Published Article will remain Online forever on the same and unique Hyperlink unless any Copyright Claim / Plagiarism Claim is proven against it. Published Article will be removed from www.damaacademia.com and all possible Indexing Services without prior notice to Corresponding Author, if Copyright Claim / Plagiarism Claim is proven against it. Dama International Researchers Does Not Print and Send / Courier / Post Hard copy of Certificate. Corresponding Author will only receive Certificates on Registered Email Address.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

If Author wish to cancel the publication with us after completing Final Submission / After Publication, As per Terms and Conditions of Dama Academic Scholarly Journal of Researchers which Author has accepted during Initial Submission and Final Submission and also in duly signed Author Declaration Form, Fee once deposited will not be refunded.  Author is already given ample time to consider publishing with us or not before making Final Submission. Journal performs all the process promptly and on time for which it has to pay the cost too. Author may withdraw the paper and Dama Academic Scholarly Journal of Researchers will have no objection if said withdrawn article is published somewhere else.

When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed

Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published. Authors should identify Individuals who provide writing assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance.

Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note.

The requirement for informed consent should be included in the journals instructions for authors. When informed consent has been obtained it should be indicated in the published article.

Papers are accepted for publication on the understanding that exclusive copyright in the paper is assigned to the Publisher. Authors are asked to sign a copyright assignment form after acceptance of their papers.

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