Peer Review Guidelines
Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (PJPS) requires the Peer Reviewers to review these guidelines before evaluating the manuscript. After reading this, the reviewer should have most of their questions answered. It will also help them to complete a peer review report as thoroughly and speedily as possible, ensuring that the work is appropriately evaluated and published on time. The reviewers are advised to contact our editorial office in case of any additional queries.
Journal’s View on Peer Evaluation: Usually, the Author’s bemoan the length of time it takes to publish a work. PJPS works hard to handle documents in a fair, timely, and comprehensive manner. Peer reviewers are therefore requested to submit their feedback within ten business days. All submissions to the journal are subject to a single-anonymous peer review process i.e. single-blind peer review. We think that the most effective technique to obtain frank feedback on publications is to use anonymous peer reviewers. The reviewers are requested not to get in touch with the authors personally.
Importance of Peer Review
• Peer reviewers must reply promptly to requests for peer review, even if they are unable to complete
the review, to prevent needless delays in the process.
• Peer reviewers should disclose any conflicts of interest they may have (ask the publisher for
clarification if in doubt) and be well-versed in the subject matter to evaluate the paper thoroughly.
Additional details regarding conflicting interests are available on the PJPS Website.
• Peer reviewers are required to maintain the confidentiality of any information pertaining to the
authors' identities and the substance of the article.
• Comments made during peer review should be helpful and neutral rather than antagonistic or
disparaging.
• Peer reviewers are prohibited from putting unpublished article files, photos, or other material into
publicly accessible databases or tools (such as ChatGPT, generative AI tools) that do not maintain
confidentiality, are open to the public, or may keep or utilize the data for their gain.
• The reviewers are not allowed to create review reports using artificial intelligence tools.
• Peer reviewers must use reliable and correct reference in their evaluation report.
• Do not allow the origins of a manuscript, a writer's nationality, their political or religious views,
their gender, or any other aspect of their identity, to affect their reviews, nor should they allow
commercial concerns to have any influence.
