About the Journal

Online ISSN: 2224-2333
Print ISSN: 2222-9930
Indexed in: DRJI.org and Google Scholar
In Process: DOAJ and EBSCO HOST in process

The Pakistan Journal of Engineering, Technology and Sciences, PJETS,  is official bi-annual open access journal of College of Computer Science & Information Systems. PJETS published since 2011 double-blind peer-reviewed quality research articles from academia as well as various research institutes and organizations. The submitted papers go through a rigorous, blind peer-review process. The paper submission process is automated by an Open Submission System (OJS), facilitating not only the authors, but also the editors and reviewers. Editorial Research Board members are from various  universities / institutes of USA, UK, Netherlands, Malaysia, Canada, France, Finland UAE, and others.

Review and Publication Policy

Summary

PJETS employs the double-blind peer review process, where both reviewers and authors remain anonymous throughout the review process. Every submitted paper is first reviewed by the editor(s) for an initial scrutiny. During the initial scrutiny, the paper is also checked for plagiarism and the similarity index by using Turnitin software (https://www.turnitin.com). In case the paper contains significant amount of plagiarism, it is immediately rejected. If the paper complies with the journal’s scope, policy, similarity-index limit, and the minimum quality level, it is sent to the peer-review. All the steps from the submission to the final decision are carried out via the Open Journal System (OJS) integrated with the journal’s website.


The reviewers’ comments are communicated to the author(s) for further revision/modification suggested by the reviewers. The revised version from the authors is sent to another round of review in case of major revision.

The final decision of the reviewers are placed before the editorial board for final decision of acceptance / rejection. The decision of the editorial board is communicated to the author via an acceptance / rejection email. In case of acceptance, the author is asked to submit the final proof-read version along with a copyright form and the publication fee.

The paper is finally sent to the production after a thorough review from the editors.

Publication Frequency and Timeline

PJETS Research journal is published bi-annually since 2011. The issues are released in the months of June and December.

Authorship Policy

PJETS Research Journal has the following policies for the authorship of a paper. In case of multiple authors, a person chosen as the corresponding author will handle all correspondence about the article and sign the publishing agreement on behalf of all the authors. The corresponding author is responsible for ensuring that all the authors’ names, affiliations, contact details, and the order in which the names appear are correct.

  • Authorship will only be given to those individuals who have substantially contributed in the said article. That could be in the conception, study design, execution, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation, drafting, selection of the journal, and agreeing to take responsibility and be accountable for the contents of the article
  • After the manuscript is accepted for publication, any change in the co-authors may be reported to the journal’s editor via the “authorship change request form” available at the journal’s website. This form must be signed by all the authors, including the person you are adding or removing. The editor will need to agree to the change, and if a clear rationale has not been provided, the request may be rejected.

Publication Fees

PJETS publishes article free of charge. There is no submission, proceesing as well as publication fees.

Standard Operative Procedures (SOP)

From submission (see Author's Guidlines) to publication, the standard procedure of articles of PJETS Research Journal is summarized as follows.

  1. The PJETS Research Journal has an integrated Open Journal Submission (OJS) system through which the authors can submit their While submitting the paper, the author is required to create an account at OJS which is used for the entire communication following the paper submission.
  2. The editor is responsible for the preliminary scanning of the paper and ensuring that it is neither published anywhere else nor contains a high amount of it. If the similarity index of the submitted manuscript is found beyond the acceptable limit (19%), the manuscript will be returned to the authors for modification.
  3. The OJS will automatically assign a manuscript ID to the Subsequently, the editor will assign the paper to a relevant associate editor or section editor, who will be responsible for the entire review process.
  4. The asigned editor will send the paper to the experts of the field for review for a double-blind peer-review. Editor will make sure the draft sent for review does not contain authors identities.
  5. In case, the reviewers suggest the revisions, the manuscript will be returned to the author(s) for modification as per The revised manuscript is again sent to the same experts for final comments, if required.
  6. The final comments of the experts/reviewers are submitted to the Editorial Board for final
  7. The Editorial Board selects papers among the approved ones for publication in the upcoming
  8. The Editor issues acceptance or rejection notification to the corresponding author(s).

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Originality and Plagiarism Policy

All the papers submitted in PJETS Research Journal are first passed through a Turnitin check. If the similarity index in the Turnitin report is 20% or above, or the similarity index from any one source is 5% or higher, the submission is declined.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

PJETS Research Journal requires each author to disclose potential conflicts of interest. A conflict of interest occurs when professional conclusions regarding the complete and objective presentation of research are influenced or could be influenced by a secondary interest. Therefore, we require that our authors disclose such possible competing interests. Competing interests often arise with regard to financial matters. However, conflicts of interest can also be non-financial, professional, or personal and can exist in relation to institutions or individuals. Reviewers are also encouraged to report conflict of interest during review process. Any conflict or competing interest with published articles can be disclosed by writing to pjets@iobm.edu.pk

Research Misconduct Policy

In the event that PJETS is made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article (plagiarism, citation manipulation, data falsification/fabrication, etc.), the policy followed to deal with the allegation is detailed in the Research Misconduct Document .

Appeals

PJETS deals with complaints and appeals in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE): https://publicationethics.org/appeals

Copyright

All the articles published in PJETS are open access. PJETS holds the rights of all the published articles. Authors are required to transfer copyrights to journal to make sure that the paper is solely published in PJETS; however, the authors and readers may freely read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author 

PJET Policy Document

PJET policy document can be accessed here