About Journal
ISSN: 2617-2186 (Online)
Local Registration Number at the Libyan National Library is (280/2013) – Benghazi
Al-Mukhtar Journal of Sciences is an open-access online and printed journal published by Omar Al-Mukhtar University. It is a peer-review, open-access journal that aims at publishing high-quality papers of sciences and relevant topics rapidly and free of charge. One of the main goals of the journal is to provide global researchers with a free publishing platform.
ISSN: 2617-2186 (Online)
Local Registration Number at the Libyan National Library is (280/2013) – Benghazi
Al-Mukhtar Journal of Sciences is an open-access online and printed journal published by Omar Al-Mukhtar University. It is a peer-review, open-access journal that aims at publishing high-quality papers of sciences and relevant topics rapidly and free of charge. One of the main goals of the journal is to provide global researchers with a free publishing platform.
Journal History
MJSc was founded in 1991 as the Journal of the University of Omar Al-Mukhtar. Since the first issue in 1992, it has been published quarterly, consistently, and continuously, covering a wide range of Pure and applied science and issues from every specialist aspect. The mission of our journal is to provide high quality articles from Libya and worldwide. Omar Al-Mukhtar University is the owner and the publisher.
Publication Frequency
This journal is published quarterly.
Open Access Policy
MJSc is an open access journal, which provides immediate, worldwide, barrier-free access to the full text of all published articles without charge readers or their institutions for access. Readers have right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of all articles in the MJSc.
Focus and Scope
MJSc is a peer-reviewed and open access journal that focuses on promoting sciences generated from basic and applied sciences, to integrate researches in all aspects. This journal publishes original articles, and interesting case reports.
Subjects suitable for publication include, but are not limited to the following fields of:
- Natural science
- Engineering
- Medicine and Pharmacy
Section Policies
MJSc publishes peer-reviewed articles in basic, applies science research, case report and Medical science. All of the manuscripts must be submitted through online submission and go through peer review process as mentioned in another section.
Editorial Process
The submitted manuscript will be checked by an editor for its suitability with MJSc’s focus and scope and for major methodological flaws within two weeks.
Staff will work with the author to fulfill all the requirements within this period. Every submitted manuscript which passes this step will then be checked for plagiarism. The manuscript needs to be re-worked if indicated for minor plagiarism and will be rejected if indicated for major plagiarism. Then, an editor-in-charge and an editorial assistant will be assigned for the manuscript. In this stage, the manuscript will be assessed based on novelty and adherence to reporting guidelines. Subsequently, the manuscript will go through peer-review process. The revisions may be required and will be re-evaluated by the editor-in-charge after the authors providing sufficient responses.
The manuscript will be passed to the editor-in-chief for any further revision and ultimately will take an editorial decision. The accepted manuscript will be sent to copyediting stage for correction of grammar and spelling errors, standardizing the journal in-house style, improving table, figure, and writing quality. The incomplete revision of this stage will result in pending scheduled publication. Then, the manuscript will enter production stage for typesetting.
A pdf file is sent to the author for review and there should be no more scientific revision. A failure to comply will result in a delay of the publication since it needs editor confirmation for the changes. The final approval is needed from the corresponding author before it is published. The manuscript submitted by one of the editorial team of the MJSc will be processed by other editorial board members who do not have any conflict of interest with the manuscript and follow the same editorial process.
Peer Reviewing Process
- Manuscripts submitted for publication in OMUJ are strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed. The review process is double blind.
- If the manuscript is accepted for full review, it will be reviewed by a minimum of two external reviewers.
- Submitted manuscriptswill undergo a detailed initial check including a Plagiarism Check in the Editorial Office. An Editor – usually the Editor-in-Chief or a board member of the journal – together with the Editorial Office takes charge of the peer-review process.
- It starts with a Preliminary Review by the Editor (finished no more than two weeks after manuscript submission).
- After a manuscriptis accepted for full review, the Editor will collect at least two review comments and prepare a decision letter based on the comments of the reviewers (finished no more than 4 weeks after preliminary review).
- All the reviewers are subjected to submit their evaluation not more than six weeks. OMUJ staff ensures that the referee reports are complete. On some occasions, the review process needs more time to seek the appropriate reviewers.
- The decision letter is sent to the Corresponding Author to request an adequate revision (peer-reviewed again whenever necessary). The author will be asked to format the manuscript according to MJSc’s template before it goes into typesetting and proofreading with the publisher.
- The author will receive the paper in PDF produced by MJSc for checking before it is published online.
Join MJSc’s Peer-Review Program
MJSc is an Open Access publication, Manuscripts submitted to our journals are peer-reviewed. Reviewers are involved in all manuscripts submitted to our journal. Based on the reviewer’s comments, a Handling Editor (usually the Editor-in-Chief) is subsequently making a final decision about the way a manuscript needs to be improved. We at MJSc sincerely invite you to join our peer-review program. By participating, you will provide help to authors from all over the world and will supply them with your ideas and suggestions based on your valuable expertise.
If you are ready to be a volunteer, please submit your CV to omu.j.sci@omu.edu.ly with email subject: Peer-reviewer Application. The procedures can be outlined as follows:
(1) Send us your CV;
(2) Become a peer-reviewer
(3) Receive manuscripts from us, review the manuscripts, and send back your comments within 15 days.
MJSc Retraction Policy
MJSc recognizes the importance of the integrity and completeness of the scholarly record. The historic record of published research articles shall remain available and unaltered as far as possible. However, circumstances may arise where a paper got published based on misconduct or honest error.
Editors certainly guide the review process with much care, but it remains notoriously difficult to detect all occurrences of misconduct or error. For this reason, it may become necessary to correct the scholarly record. The decision to alter the record should not be taken lightly. Action taken depends on the individual case and can take the form of
• Expression of Concern
• Correction (Erratum or Corrigendum)
• Retraction
• Removal
The purpose of the action is to correct the literature and to alert readers. It is not intended to punish the author(s).
The responsibility of guiding an investigation of misconduct or honest error is with the editor of the journal concerned. Authors and reviewers will take part in the investigation. The editor will decide on the form to best correct the scholarly record. Guiding principles are COPE’s Retraction Guidelines and other accepted scholarly principles.
Minor errors that do not affect the integrity of the metadata or a reader’s ability to understand an article and that do not involve a scientific error or omission are corrected such that the original article is replaced with the corrected version.
If final action originates from an author’s request, MJSc will help to process it without extra charges. If the measures taken (e.g. a retraction) were not initiated by the author(s) or are even taken without mutual agreement, the author(s) will not be financially compensated and Article Processing Charges (APC) will not be reimbursed.
Copyright
Authors retain copyright and grant the OMUJ rights to publish the work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License (CC BY or CC BY-NC) that allows others to remix, adapt, build upon the work non-commercially with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in MJSc. Authors are permitted to copy and redistribute the journal’s published version of the work non-commercially (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in MJSc
MJSc Publication Ethics Statement
MJSc is committed to maintaining high standards through a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies. The editors should take any infringements of professional ethical codes, such as plagiarism, fraudulent use of data, bogus claims of authorship, very seriously with zero tolerance.
Our Journal follows the Code of Conduct of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and follows the COPE Flowcharts for Resolving Cases of Suspected Misconduct. MJSc especially observes COPE’s Code of Conduct for Journal Publishers. Editors at MJSc follow COPE’s Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Authors should be aware of a possible Conflict of Interest. In such a case authors can still take responsibility for the accuracy of their paper, but must inform the reader with an appropriate statement in the Acknowledgements.