Evaluation of Journal
Evaluation of Journal?
Evaluation of a scholarly journal is needed before selection to submit your manuscript. You can evaluate the Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology on the basis of 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 the 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.