Publication Policies and Ethics 

Ariham Loya Vijjaa Journal is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and integrity, ensuring the quality and credibility of our published research. The publication policy and ethics are designed to promote transparency, accountability, and fairness in all aspects of our publication process.

Responsibilities of Authors

Authors are expected to take full responsibility for the accuracy and significance of the data and information presented in their respective articles. They must ensure that their research presents an original and genuine outcome, with appropriate and relevant citations supporting the data and discussion.

Authors must provide clear and understandable information that allows for reproducibility. Supporting materials, such as figures and tables, should be legible and technically reproducible.

Authors should strictly adhere to the authorship criteria. All listed authors must have made a significant contribution to the research presented in the manuscript and approved all its claims. Any person to be considered Hon’ author of an original research article must have contributed in any of the following ways: designed the study, executed the study or conducted the experiments, have taken part in analyzing the data, supported documenting the article and drawing the conclusion, spearheaded the project as a principal Investigator. It is necessary to include everyone who made a significant contribution towards the completion of the research work.

Any financial or personal interest that governs the findings or research in the manuscript along with the details of financial support and its sources should be revealed. Through the submission of an article the respective authors agree that the article neither is under consideration nor published in any other journal.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

Confidentiality: Reviewers should not share any information from an assigned manuscript with outsiders without the prior permission from the Editor or preserve the data from an assigned manuscript.

Competence: Reviewer with fair expertise should complete the review. Assigned Reviewer with inadequate expertise should feel responsible and may decline the review as it is presumed that the reviewer will be an expert in the respective field.

Constructive assessment: Reviewer comments should appreciate positive aspects of the work, identify negative aspects constructively and indicate the enhancement needed. A reviewer should explain and support his or her judgment clearly enough that Editors and Authors can understand the basis of the comments. The reviewer should ensure that an observation or argument that has been previously reported be accompanied by a relevant citation and should immediately alert the Editor when he or she becomes aware of duplicate publication. A reviewer should not use any kind of offensive terminology while commenting on an article. Judgement of each article should be done without any bias and personal interest by the assigned reviewer.

Impartiality and Integrity: Reviewer's decision should solely depend on scientific merit, relevance to the subject, scope of the journal rather than financial, racial, ethnic origin etc., of the authors.

Disclosure of conflict of interest: To the extent feasible, the reviewer should minimize the conflict of interest and notify the editor describing the conflict of interest.

Timeliness and responsiveness: Reviewers should morally abide to provide the review comments within the stipulated time and be active enough in responding to the queries raised by the editor if any.

Responsibilities of Editor and Editorial Board

Editors have a responsibility to maintain the integrity of the published literature, if required, by publishing errata or corrections, identifying anything of significance, retractions, and expressions of concern as quickly as possible. Editor must comply with the policy guidelines provided by the publisher and fulfill the responsibilities bestowed upon with integrity.

Review process: Editors are responsible for monitoring and ensuring the fairness, timeliness, thoroughness, and civility of the peer-review editorial process. Timely suggestion to the journal for covering relevant and significant topics by the Editor is essential for the growth of the journal.

Decision-Making: He/she is entitled to carry out decision-making in consultation with reviewers or members of the editorial board.

Impartiality: An Editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without any bias towards race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the author's confidentiality. The Editor or any Editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers and the publisher depending on the need and stage of processing.

Towards Readers and Scientific Community-

• To ensure that the content or the author information present in the manuscript is legible.

• To evaluate all manuscripts such that they fall within the scope of the journal.

• Maintain the journal's internal integrity by suggesting the corrections, dealing with retraction, supplemental data, etc.

• Working with the publisher to attract the best manuscripts and research that will be of interest to readers.

• Ensure that all involved in the publication process understand that it is inappropriate to manipulate citations.

Publisher Role

As a publisher the following policies should be adhered to :  

• The publisher adheres to the guidelines and procedures designed to ensure the fair and best practice followed by the Industry.

• Making constructive recommendations for improving the overall process along with better production support and global dissemination of the information published in the journal.

• The publisher ensures the smooth functioning of the web development, web management and online/offline publication of articles with the help of the staff members.

Guidelines for Retracting Articles

Ariham Loya Vijjaa takes the responsibility to maintain the integrity and completeness of the scholarly record of the content for all end users very seriously. The journal places great importance on the authority of articles after they have been published and our policy is based on the best practice followed in the academic publishing community.

It is a general principle of scholarly communication that the Editor of a learned journal is solely and independently responsible for deciding which article(s) shall be published out of the submitted articles in a particular time. In making this decision, the Editor is guided by the policies of the journal's Editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements in force regarding copyright infringement and plagiarism. An outcome of this principle is the importance of the scholarly archive as a permanent, historic record of the transactions of scholarship. Articles that have been published shall remain extant, exact and unaltered as far as possible However, occasionally unavoidable circumstances may arise where after publication, the article requires retraction or even removal from a particular journal. Such actions must not be undertaken lightly and can only occur under exceptional circumstances, such as:

Article withdrawal: This is only used for "Article in Press" which represents the early versions of the accepted articles. If any article at the stage of "Article in Press", by any means, represents infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or ethical codes, similar incidences, the article may be withdrawn depending on the Editor's discretion. In this regard, the Editor's decision must be considered as final following the deep assessment and analysis of the situations, on a case by case basis.

Article retraction: Infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submissions, sham claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data and similar claims will lead to the retraction of an article. Occasionally, a retraction may be considered to correct errors in submission or publication.