Journal Policies

Processing Fee

The journal charges a processing fee of Rs. 500 (UG & PG students), Rs. 1000 (SAM Group Research Scholars & Faculty), and Rs. 1250 (Research Scholars & Faculty outside the group), Rs. 2000 (Industry/ Company), $50 (International Scholar).

Open Access Statement

SAM Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Research is an open-access journal. The articles published in the journal can be freely distributed as per the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode) (As per the Budapest Open Access Initiative and reaffirmed in 2012 BOAI-10). However, any research or work published in the journal should be duly quoted/ acknowledged in subsequent publications.

Editorial Policies

The SAM Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Research is committed to following ethics of publication at all stages of the review and publication process as per the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). The journal publication committee expects the authors, reviewers, and editors to strictly follow the journal’s ethical policy. We also expect our reviewers and editors to follow the journal’s ethical policy in processing the received manuscripts.

Publication Ethics

It is the responsibility of the journal to assure the readers that they are reading an original article. Any article that is submitted to the journal overlapping with already published or under review or in press or any other electronic form will be considered to be a duplicate or redundant publication. It is a violation of the APA Ethics Code (https://www.apa.org/ethics/code). Hence, such publications will be rejected or retracted (if published) and the journal will send a notice/ information of the same to the concerned authorities of submitter’s affiliation.

Ethics Committee Approval

SAM Global Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Research suggests that all those submissions dealing with animal or human data must include the details of the ethical committee approval in the “Methods” section. The authors are requested to submit a valid clearance certificate from the regulatory ethical committee of the organization wherein the work is accomplished.

Consent Form

SAM Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Research suggests that those studies that involve the participation of patients or healthy persons to other subjects that are part of the experimental or survey studies should take permission from the volunteer in the form of a consent form. The details of the same should be mentioned in the manuscripts.

Conflict of Interest

The authors are suggested to reveal any financial interests/ funding of the work. Also, the authors must state about any conflict between the authors.

Copyright Policy

By submitting the manuscript to the journal, authors agree to the copyright policy of the journal, and the copyright to the above work (including without limitation, the right to publish the work in whole, or in part, in any and all forms) is hereby transferred to the journal, to ensure widest dissemination and protection against infringement. No proprietary right other than copyright is proclaimed by the journal.

By submitting the manuscript to the journal, the authors also declare that:

• The manuscript submitted is an original work and has neither been published in any other peer-reviewed journal nor is under consideration for publication by any other journal. More so, the manuscript does not contravene any existing copyright or any other third-party rights.
• The corresponding author(s) and/ or the main author take full responsibility of any plagiarism or ethics issue, if arise at some stage of the publication and even after the manuscript is published.
• I / we are the sole author(s) of the manuscript and maintain the authority to enter into this agreement and the granting of rights to the journal does not infringe any clause of this agreement.
• The manuscript contains no such material that may be unlawful, defamatory, or which would if published, in any way whatsoever; violate the terms and conditions as laid down in the agreement.
• I/we have taken due care that the scientific knowledge and all other statements contained in the manuscript conform to true facts and authentic formulae and will not if followed precisely, be detrimental to the user.
• I/we permit the adaptation, preparation of derivative works, oral presentation, or distribution, along with the commercial application of the work..

Plagiarism Policy

All the manuscripts received by the editorial office will be checked for their original work by checking the plagiarism. The journal policy considers paraphrasing of text, concepts, and ideas as plagiarism. Also, if any text, data, images are used without due permission from the publishers, it will be categorized under plagiarism. Usually less than 10% plagiarism is accepted in the manuscript. The manuscript will be rejected by the editorial board without undergoing the review process and also report to the concerned authority of the organization from where the manuscript is submitted.

Privacy Statement

The editorial board states that the names and email addresses mentioned in the journal will be used only for the purposes of the journal and will not be used for any other purpose.

Print/ Online

The journal is published online only and no hard copies will be provided to the authors. The published articles can be downloaded from the journal webpage linked to the SAM Global University website. However, the university may print some hard copies of the journal for its internal use.