Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to the JIOMS must follow the focus, scope, and scope guidelines of this journal. The submitted manuscripts must fulfil scientific merit and/or novelty or new contribution to knowledge appropriate to the focus and scope of this journal. All manuscripts submitted to the JIOMS are first subjected to Editorial Review. Manuscripts that do not meet the focus and scope of the JIOMS or do not follow the basic author guidelines of the journal will be rejected without external review. The manuscripts that have passed the editorial review will be sent for formal peer review assessments.

All manuscripts submitted to this journal must be written in good English. Authors for whom English is not their native language are encouraged to have their papers checked before submission for grammar and clarity. The work must not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. They need to show a certificate of English proofreading when asked by the Editor.

All submitted manuscripts must be free from plagiarism. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to do the similarity checking (please use Turnitin or iThenticate to check the similarity). Editors will also check the similarity of manuscripts in this journal by using the Turnitin or iThenticate software. Every submitted article will be double-blinded by two peer reviewers, however, there is the possibility that the Journal will assign further reviewers for more specialised advice on statistics or techniques if the need arises. After receiving reports from the reviewers, the editors will evaluate the recommendations, which normally come as: 1) Accept and publish, with or without editorial revision, 2) Accept with minor revisions, 3) Consider major revisions, 4) Reject.

The reviews would cover the originality, conceptual or technical related to the study and case reports, interpretation of the results, and reference to the clinical guidelines. The editors will register the decision and inform the authors about the decisions.

 When authors are asked to revise the manuscript, they need to examine sentence structure, the completeness and accuracy of the text, references, tables, and graphic contents of the revised manuscript very carefully. Authors need to answer each of the reviewer's comments and submit the revision in a separate file. In the revised manuscript, the authors also must show the changes that have been made, by giving the text with different colours.

The Editor-in-Chief will make the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of manuscripts. The Editorial Board reserves the right to edit articles on all aspects of style, format, and clarity. Manuscripts with excessive errors in any aspect, i.e. spelling or punctuation, will be returned to authors for revision before resubmission or may be rejected entirely.

Publication of accepted articles, including assigning the article to the published issues, will be made by the Editor in Chief by considering the sequence of accepted dates and geographical distribution of authors as well as a thematic issue.