THE HOMOEOPATHIC HERITAGE

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY

Editorial and Peer Review Process for The Homeopathic Heritage Journal

Once you hit the submit button, your article reaches our system's inbox. Here's what happens from then on-
The Homoeopathic Heritage has a double review system.

Review Round 1: Acceptance/Rejection for Editorial Review

The 'article accepted' mail is automated and is generated by the system for all those articles which have been accepted by the system as acceptable for the editorial review. This is system-generated with no manual interference. These mails are generated by the system and sent out to you on the 15th of every month irrespective of the date you submit your article on.

(15th is the last date of submission for the month subsequent to the next month. Eg 15th February 2024 = Last date of submission for April 2024 issue)

The criteria for acceptance/rejection are-

1. Plagiarism scanning (allowance of 10%)
2. Grammar check (Grammarly Minimum Passing Score= 30)
3. Language check (Grammarly Minimum Passing Score= 40)
4. Abidance of our guidelines as provided on the website
5. Timely submission

The articles with discrepancies are rejected and a similar mail ‘Article Rejected’ is sent out to them on 15th (last date of article submission). The reason for rejection is cited in the mail as XYZ: Review Round 1

Review Round 2: Acceptance/Rejection for Publication

The articles accepted after the system's check are sent to the editorial board for review where they are manually reviewed and shortlisted by the editors based on conceptual clarity, quality in terms of technicality and presentation as a whole. Two articles worthy of peer review (two best articles out of the ones shortlisted by the editorial board) are sent to our reviewers for peer review. Their comments are sent to the author for incorporation into the article and resubmission via mail within a stipulated time.

This review takes a month’s time and therefore on the 15th of the next month the articles which underwent review 1 in the previous month are notified if they are rejected for publication.

(Eg. articles submitted in June for August issue receive Acceptance /rejection mail on 15th June and the ones accepted for editorial review on 15th June receive notification after review 2 on 15th July whether they have been selected for publication in the August issue)

While the articles accepted are not notified again in the next month, the articles with discrepancies are rejected and a similar mail ‘Article Rejected’ is sent out to them on 15th (of the next month). The reason for rejection is cited in the mail as XYZ: Review Round 2

NOTE:

Acceptance by the system only informs you that your article has made it to the list of articles which are being reviewed by the editorial board and might go for peer review as well or might be rejected/published on 360. Despite acceptance mail, your article can be rejected by the editorial board if it does not pass the criteria on which it is checked by the editors (aforementioned). In this case however, we give you an option to publish it on Homeopathy 360- our portal for students. (Here it undergoes review again and might get rejected from there also).

WE MAINTAIN A POLICY OF IMPARTIALITY/FAIRNESS IN PUBLICATION

Only the articles submitted via the portal are considered for publication. Articles submitted via email/whatsapp will not be entertained for maintaining an unbiased approach while publishing the journal.