Policies and requirements

The publication ethics and publication malpractice statement are based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors (the committee on publication ethics 2011 - COPE [PDF] )

Journal Policies

    1. Online First Policy

Accepting manuscripts in Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Science will be available online after fees payment. All accepted manuscripts will be assigned a DOI upon posting online.

    1. Open Access Policy

Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Science is an open-access journal, therefore there are no fees required for downloading any publication from the journal website by authors, readers, and institutions. The journal applies the license of CC BY-NC (a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license). This license allows authors to keep ownership of the copyright of their papers. But this license permits any user to download, print out, extract, reuse, archive, and distribute the article, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and the source of the work. The license ensures that the article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive.

    1. Copyright and licensing

The journal applies the license of CC BY-NC (a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license). This license allows authors to keep ownership of the copyright of their papers. But this license permits any user to download, print out, extract, reuse, archive, and distribute the article, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and the source of the work. The license ensures that the article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive.

    1. Plagiarism Policy

The author should submit an original manuscript and an unpublished article to Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Science. The manuscript must include a proper citation without plagiarism/duplication of the authors' previous work. The manuscript shall be submitted to Turnitin's plagiarism detection software before sending to the reviewers. The Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Science board will reject the manuscript if plagiarism is detected at any stage of the publication. In addition, we will not accept manuscripts that are submitted elsewhere.

    1. Achieve Policy

The Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Science is an open-access journal, which allows access to all published papers on its website without any charge. Also, the published papers in the journal are archived in the following archive system in Iraq:

  1. Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals

  2. Repository of Al-Mustansiriyah Journal

These services allow to create of an advance searchable index of journal archives and keep a record of all the open-access archives of the journals of the University of Baghdad and other Iraqi journals that contain information on a broad array of subjects with multidisciplinary knowledge to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content and increasing the availability of scholarly communication.

    1. Publication Charge Policy

      1. Publication charge policy and waiver policy statement

Al-Mustansiriyah Journal of Science is an open-access journal, so there are no subscription fees. The journal is charged for a single accepted manuscript (10 pages) of 150000 IQD or $100 to support publishing service costs. There is no charge until the manuscript is accepted for publication and does not affect any editorial decisions.

The journal waiver policy statement is:

-No fees are required for developing countries with low-income countries according to the World Bank Country classification by Income level

      1. While other authors should pay the publishing fee as follows:

Author residing in Iraq:

The amount of (150,000) IQD for publication fees after acceptance of the manuscript.

Authors residing outside Iraq have to pay the fee publication of $100.

Payment method: the payment can pay through:

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