Evaluation of Journal
Evaluation of Journal?
Evaluation of a scholarly journal is needed before selecting to submit your manuscript. You can evaluate the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology based on advantages and disadvantages. |
Advantages
- Open access journal (each article in both pdf and HTML format)
- Peer-reviewed journal - Web of Science impact factor (2 years): 1.306 (2019) - Online submission and tracking of your manuscript - Article available online immediately after acceptance - Each article has a cover page with DOI and matrices - Copyright to authors (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0) - No fee for manuscript submission, article processing, or publication |
Disadvantages
- Only online version. No hard copy
- Requires video clip of methodology (one method in detail) in case of Research Article. Skill in preparing video clip with subtitle is required - Both internal review (by the editorial board member) and external peer review - Annual acceptance rate is less than 8% (eight percent) - About 110 days are required from submission to publication - You have to submit ORCID ID with 5 years of information, fill-up the Conflict of Interest form during acceptance of the manuscript - Plagiarism check of each article by a software “Plagiarism Detector†- Each article is checked before publication to identify grammatical mistake using the free software Grammarly.com - Article may be retracted if needed - Need knowledge and skill about the online submission of a manuscript (email submission is not allowed) |
Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology receives more submissions than it can publish (less than 8 out of 100). It is unfortunate to say that when we accept one paper that means another good paper must be rejected.