Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences

Indexing/Abstracting

Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences is indexed by the following abstracting and indexing services:

Scopus — On 13/03/21, the Journal of the Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences (JNSPS) got acceptance for inclusion in Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences.</p

Crossref — The official DOI (digital object identifier) link registration agency for scholarly and professional publications. Crossref operates a cross-publisher citation linking system that allows a researcher to click on a reference citation on one publisher’s platform and link directly to the cited content on another publisher’s platform, subject to the target publisher’s access control practices. This citation-linking network covers millions of articles and other content items from several hundred scholarly and professional publishers.

Google Scholar— Provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature. Includes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar sorts articles by weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the article has been cited in other scholarly literature so that the most relevant results are returned on the first page.

DOAJ— The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals. Today, the independent database contains ca. 12000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, and humanities. DOAJ is a community-curated list of open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer-reviewed open access material.

ResearchGate— ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. According to a 2014 study by Nature and a 2016 article in Times Higher Education, it is the largest academic social network in terms of active users.

Publication Ethics

To ensure that scientific publications are of top quality, get trust of the public in the scientific discoveries and attribute credit to the authors for their work, ethics guidelines are set in place. The following should be avoided

Falsification and fabrication of data:

Data fabrication implies that the researcher didn't actually conduct the study , but instead faked the data. Falsification of data occurs where the researcher has conducted the experiment but made changes to data. Authors of manuscripts or published papers that are discovered to have fabricate or falsified the results which includes manipulation of images, could be punished as well as the publication of their work could be removed.

Plagiarism

It's dishonest and unfair to make use of the work and ideas of scientists and not credit them. Plagiarism occurs when you copy just one word from a manuscript, or from one that was published previously without proper citation. The manuscripts that are copied are rejected. If already published, the publication may need to be retracted or corrected.

Multiple submissions

It isn't acceptable to submit the same manuscript to more than one journal at the same time. It is a waste of time for peer reviewers and editors and could damage the credibility of authors as well as journals. If discovered, sanctions may be imposed on authors whose articles have been submitted simultaneously elsewhere.

Redundant publications:

This is when you publish several similar papers that are built on the same research idea. Your findings are more appealing to JNSPS if you harmonize them into one complete research paper. Redundant publication in JNSPS would attract sacntions.

Incorrect author contributions or the attributions of authors:

The author listed must have made a significant scientific contribution to research and must have ratified the research. It is essential to list all authors who have made significant contributions to the research such as students and laboratory technicians. Do not "gift" authorship to someone who did not contribute to the research paper. Your institution could notified and your paper could be rejected if you're found guilty. Submissions made by anyone other than the authors will not be considered.

Modification of the Citation

Sanctions can be imposed against authors whose work contains references that are designed to improve the quantity and quality of citations for authors' works or articles that are published in a particular journal. Editors and reviewers should not request that authors' references be added to increase the number of citations for their work, or that of an associate, to the journal or another journal to whom they are affiliated.

Editors and Reviewers

When they have a recent publication or a current submission or share relationship of any kind with any author, editors and reviewers should decline involvement with such submissions. Also, editors and reviewers are required to disclose it in case they've discussed the manuscript before with authors.

Sanctions

JNSPS can impose the following sanctions for any journal informed of violations of our ethics guidelines for publication.

• Rejection of the manuscript, as well as all other manuscripts submitted by the author(s).
• Author(s) will not be allowed to submit manuscript for 2 years
• A prohibition to serve as an editor or reviewer will be issued.

In the event of serious ethical violations, the JNSPS may impose additional sanctions.

Investigations

Suspected breaches of our publication ethics policies, either before and after publication, as well as concerns about research ethics, should be reported to Editor-in-Chief (editor-in-chief@journal.nsps.org.ng) or the President, Nigerian Society of Physical Sciences (president@nsps.org.ng).

Corrections and retractions

If there are any errors in articles published, the publisher will examine the issue and consult with the editors and the institution of the author. Authors can amend their manuscripts to correct mistakes, while errors made from publishers can be corrected by an Erratum. If there is evidence that misconduct took place, it may be necessary to retract the article in accordance with the COPE Retraction Guidelines.

The few essentials for publishing in JNSPS

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
• The submission file is in PDF which must have been generated via Microsoft Word or Latex. Latex is preferred especially for submissions under Mathematical Section
• All the work cited in the text is included in the References section and citations are machine-readable. Manually entered in-text citations are not acceptable.
• All the contributing authors have working Email Ids and their affiliated organization names and addresses.
• Where available, DOI for the references must be provided.
• All illustrations, figures, and tables must be placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• List of five potential reviewers. This information should include the name and title, affiliation, and email address.
• There are no charges/fees for submitting manuscript to JNSPS.

How to Submit?

• All articles must be submitted using our

  online submission system.