Scientific Research and Impact (ISSN 2315-5396)
is a monthly, peer-reviewed international
research journal that addresses both applied
and theoretical issues. The scope of the
journal encompasses research articles,
original research reports, reviews, short
communications and scientific commentaries
in the fields of applied and theoretical
sciences, biology, chemistry, physics,
zoology, medical studies, environmental
sciences, mathematics, statistics, geology,
engineering, computer science, social
sciences, natural sciences, technological
sciences, linguistics, medicine, industrial,
nanotechnology, electronics and all other
applied and theoretical sciences. The
journal publishes both applied and
conceptual research.
Instructions for authors
Submit your manuscript
via e-mail attachment to the Editorial
Office to [email protected]
or
[email protected] a
manuscript number will be mailed to the
corresponding author within 48 hours.
Scientific Research and Impact (SRI)
only accepts manuscript through electronic
submission and
encourages authors
to submit their manuscripts via email
attachment including the text, tables, and
figures using Microsoft word document.
Covering letter:
The names of author(s), office or
institutional full address including the
corresponding author's email address, fax
and telephone numbers should be sent in a
letter format via e-mail message to the
editor along with the manuscript. The name
of the corresponding author should be marked
with asterisk (*) for identification.
Four types of manuscripts may be submitted:
Short Communications: A
Short Communication is not more than 5
printed pages in length. Authors should
submit a suitable manuscript with unique
research methods, records, models and
pioneering results.
Short Communications are limited to a
maximum of two figures and one table. (1)
Abstracts are limited to 100 words; (2)
instead of a separate Materials and Methods
section, experimental procedures may be
incorporated into Figure Legends and Table
footnotes; (3) Results and Discussion should
be combined into a single section.
Full length research papers: Authors
should describe modern and attentively
complete research work, and explaining
experimental procedures in sufficient detail
for justification. The research work should
construct a minimum length for scientific
infer.
Reviews: Reviews
covering topics of contemporary interest are
highly encourage. Reviews should be concise
and with scientific model.
Case Report:
Authors are encouraged to submit articles on
case report using precise scientific topics,
with excellent details,
investigations and curiosity.
Publication and peer-review process
All manuscripts are reviewed by the
Editorial Board and qualified reviewers.
Decisions will be made as rapidly as
possible, and the journal strives to return
reviewers’ comments to authors within 2
weeks. The editorial board will re-review
manuscripts that are accepted pending
revision. It is the goal of the SRI to
publish manuscripts within 4 weeks after
submission.
Manuscripts for Research articles submitted
to Scientific Research and Impact should be
divided into the following sections
Title page
Author (s) names
Authors (s) affiliation(s)
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Material and Methods
Results and discussion
Conclusions
Competing interests (if any)
Authors' contributions
Acknowledgements
Tables (if any)
Figures (if any)
Abbreviations (if any)
References
The Title should
be a brief phrase describing the contents of
the paper. The Title Page should include the
authors' full names and affiliations, the
name of the corresponding author along with
phone, fax and E-mail information. Present
addresses of authors should appear as a
footnote.
Author(s):
Authorship should be limited to those who
have contributed substantially to the work.
Please note the corresponding author’s name
and corresponding e-mails should be giving.
Authors' name should be written by family
name or surname, their given names should be
shortened to initials.
The authors' affiliation(s)
should be written below their names.
The Abstract should
be enlightening and totally personal
description, in brief present the topic,
state the scope of the experiments, indicate
significant data, and point out major
findings and conclusions. The abstract
should not exceed 350
words.
Complete sentences, active verbs, and the
third person should be employed, the
abstract should be written in the past
tense. Standard nomenclature should be used
and abbreviations should be avoided.
The key words:
below the abstract, about 3 to 9 keywords
should be listed that
will provide indexing references.
The Introduction should
provide a clear statement of the problem,
the relevant literature on the subject, and
the proposed approach or solution. It should
be comprehensible to academicians around the
globe of scientific disciplines.
Materials and methods:
Subheadings should be used. Methods,
procedure or formula use should be complete
enough to allow experiments to be
reproduced. However, only authentic
procedures should be described in detail;
previously published procedures should be
cited, and significant modifications of
published procedures should be stated in
brief.
Results should
be presented with clearness and accuracy.
The results, procedure should be written
when describing the authors' analysis,
theory test, investigation and experimental
outcomes. Previously published results
should be written as in present events.
Results should be explained fundamentally
with its outcomes.
The Discussion should
interpret the findings in view of the
results obtained in this and in past studies
on this topic. State the conclusions in a
few sentences at the end of the paper. The
Results and Discussion sections can include
subheadings, and when appropriate, both
sections can be combined.
Competing interests:
Authors are required to complete a
declaration of competing interests. All
competing interests that are declared will
be listed at the end of published articles.
Where an author gives no competing
interests, the listing will be ignored
meaning the author do not have any competing
interests. Authors must disclose any
financial competing interests; they should
also reveal any non-financial competing
interests that may cause them embarrassment
were they to become public after the
publication of the manuscript.
Authors' contributions:
In order to give appropriate credit to each
author of a paper, the individual
contributions of authors to the manuscript
should be specified in this section. All
contributors who do not meet the criteria
for authorship should be listed in an
acknowledgements section. Examples of those
who might be acknowledged include a person
who provided purely technical help, writing
assistance, or a colleague who provided only
general support.
The Acknowledgments create
an opportunity of appreciation
of colleagues,
institutions, companies, organization,
grants and sponsorship. Acknowledgement
should be brief.
Tables should
be kept to a minimum and be designed to be
as simple as possible. Each table should be
on a separate page, numbered consecutively
in Arabic numerals and supplied with a
heading and a legend if any. Tables should
be self-explanatory without reference to the
text. The details of the methods used in the
experiments should preferably be described
in the legend instead of in the text. The
same data should not be presented in both
table and graph form or repeated in the
text.
Figure legends should
be typed in numerical order on a separate
sheet. Graphics should be prepared using
applications capable of generating high
resolution GIF, TIFF, JPEG or PowerPoint
before pasting in the Microsoft Word
manuscript file. Tables should be prepared
in Microsoft Word. Use Arabic numerals to
designate figures and upper case letters for
their parts (Figure 1). Begin each legend
with a title and include sufficient
description so that the figure is
understandable without reading the text of
the manuscript. Information given in legends
should not be repeated in the text.
Abbreviations may
be added. In common, non-standard
abbreviations should be used only when the
full term is very long and used often. Each
abbreviation should be spelled out and
introduced in parentheses the first time it
is used in the text. Only recommended SI
units should be used. Authors should use the
solidus presentation (mg/ml). Standard
abbreviations (such as ATP and DNA) need not
be defined.
References: In
the text, a reference identified by means of
an author‘s name should be followed by the
date of the reference in parentheses. When
there are more than two authors, only the
first author‘s name should be mentioned,
followed by ’et al‘. In the event that an
author cited has had two or more works
published during the same year, the
reference, both in the text and in the
reference list, should be identified by a
lower case letter like ’a‘ and ’b‘ after the
date to distinguish the works.
Examples
Clifford (1978), Fernandez et al. (1971),
(Griggs, 1990), (Parks and Harry, 1982),
(Henderson, 1981; Mohammed, 1999 a, b; Anna,
1988, 1975), (Sires et al., 1967)
References
should be listed at the end of the paper in
alphabetical order. Articles in preparation
or articles submitted for publication,
unpublished observations, personal
communications, should not be included in
the reference list but should only be
mentioned in the manuscript (e.g., K.
Gibson, University of Washington, U.S.A). Journal
names are abbreviated according to Chemical
Abstracts. Authors are fully responsible for
the accurate citing of the references.
Examples
Crawford JJ, Sims GK, Mulvaney RL,
Radosevich M (1998). Biodegradation of
atrazine under denitrifying conditions.
Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 49: 618–623.
Cupples AM, Spormann AM, McCarty PL (2004).
Comparative evaluation of chloroethene
dechlorination to ethene by
Dehalococcoides-like microorganisms.
Environ. Sci. Technol., 38: 4768–4774.
AISE and CESIO (1999). Environmental
relevance of anaerobic biodegradability of
surfactants.
http://www.aise-net.org/PDF/anaerobicBiopub1.pdf,
p. 6.
Abramowicz DA (1990). Aerobic and anaerobic
biodegradation of PCBs: a review. Crit. Rev.
Biotechnol., 10: 241–251.
Foreign language items:
Items listed in the references that were
published in a language other than English
will be listed as originally published and
without translation. Any foreign language
item in the text (e.g. the title of a book:
a quotation) should be followed by an
English translation (to be supplied by the
author of the article).
Proofs and Preview: Electronic
proofs will be sent via e-mail attachment to
the corresponding author as a PDF file.
Page proofs are considered to be the final
version of the manuscript. With the
exception of typographical or minor errors,
no changes will be made in the manuscript at
the proof stage.
Copyright: Submission
of a manuscript implies: that the work
described has not been published before
(except in the form of an abstract or as
part of a published lecture, or thesis) that
it is not under consideration for
publication elsewhere; that if and when the
manuscript is accepted for publication, the
authors and
the responsible authorities – tacitly or
explicitly – at the institute where the work
has been carried out
agree to automatic transfer of the copyright
to the publisher.
The publisher will not be held legally
responsible should there be any claims for
compensation.
Plagiarism detection: Scientific Research
and Impact (SRI)
is highly against plagiarism;
manuscripts are properly screened and
investigated by using duplication-checking
software to detect if any part or full
manuscript has been published in any
journal. Suspected manuscripts with issues
of copyright infringement submitted to
Scientific Research and Impact
(SRI)
may not be published except with authentic
proof of ownership. Authors are to submit
unpublished manuscript with content of
originality.
Permissions:
Authors wishing to include figures, tables,
or text passages that have already been
published elsewhere are required to obtain
permission from the copyright owner(s) for
both the print and online format and to
include evidence that such permission has
been granted when submitting their papers.
Any material received without such evidence
will be assumed to originate from the
authors.
Reprints:
Authors can reprints copy of their published
manuscript from the journal website, for
authors ordering high-quality reprints or
bound reprints for published articles may
contact the editors to
enquire
information about ordering and charges.
Article-processing charge: Authors
or sponsoring body are required to pay an
article-processing charge of $430
for each article
accepted for publication. Authors may
contact the editorial office to request for
discount in
article-processing charge.
A limited amount
of waivers for article-processing charges
are also available at the editorial
judgment. Please note that the membership is
only automatically recognized on submission
if the submitting author is based at the
member institution.