Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Journal of Scientific Temper is a broad based quarterly periodical devoted to publication of original research that contributes significantly to knowledge in perceptions and attitude towards science, public understanding and attitudes towards science and technology: survey studies, scientific and extra-scientific belief systems, science and education, scientific popularisation, science fiction, history and philosophy of science, science and media, role of science exhibitions, science centres and science museums, science and the public and science and technology in developing countries.


 

Section Policies

EDITORIAL

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SPEECH

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ARTICLES

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REVIEW ARTICLE

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OPINION

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REPORT

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BOOK REVIEW

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BOOK EXCERPTS

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CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP REPORTS

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Peer Review Process

All contributions submitted to Journal of Scientific Temper that are selected for peer-review are sent to at least one, but usually two or more, independent reviewers, selected by the editors. Authors are welcome to suggest suitable independent reviewers and may also request that the journal excludes one or two individuals or laboratories. The journal sympathetically considers such requests and usually honours them, but the editor's decision on the choice of referees is final.

As a condition of agreeing to assess the manuscript, all reviewers undertake to keep submitted manuscripts and associated data confidential, and not to redistribute them without permission from the journal. If a reviewer seeks advice from colleagues while assessing a manuscript, he or she ensures that confidentiality is maintained and that the names of any such colleagues are provided to the journal with the final report. By this and by other means, Nature journals endeavour to keep the content of all submissions confidential until the publication date other than in the specific case of its embargoed press release available to registered journalists. Although we go to every effort to ensure reviewers honour their promise to ensure confidentiality, we are not responsible for the conduct of reviewers.

Reviewers should be aware that it is our policy to keep their names confidential, and that we do our utmost to ensure this confidentiality. Under normal circumstances, blind peer-review is protected from legislation. We cannot, however, guarantee to maintain this confidentiality in the face of a successful legal action to disclose identity in the event of a reviewer having written personally derogatory comments about the authors in his or her reports. For this reason as well as for reasons of standard professional courtesy, we request reviewers to refrain from personally negative comments about the authors of submitted manuscripts. Frank comments about the scientific content of the manuscripts, however, are strongly encouraged by the editors.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Subscription Details

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Editorial Board

Editorial Board

 

NISCAIR Policy on Plagiarism

NISCAIR Policy on Plagiarism



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