Peer-review process

All submitted articles are evaluated at the submission to meet the structural and subject principles of SJRM. The matched articles will go under a double-blinded peer-review process by at least 3 reviewers (expert in the field who are not part of the journal’s editorial staff) who are selected by the Editorial Board members according to their field specialties. The Editorial Board members have the final responsibility to select the articles.

Governing body

SJRM is under the scientific control of Editorial Board whose members are recognized experts in the subject areas included within the journal’s scope. Some executive roles of the Editorial Board members are delegated to the Editor-in-Chief who is well-known in the journal’s scope.

Editorial team

SJRM is under the scientific supervision of the Editorial Team whose members are all experts with a high number of publications in their field.

Author fees/Access

There are No Fees or Charges at all for submission, reviewing and publishing processes in SJRM.

SJRM follows the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing.

Copyright

The content of SJRM is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License. To the extent this Public License may be interpreted as a contract, we are granted the Licensed Rights in consideration of your acceptance of these terms and conditions, and the Licensor grants you such rights in consideration of benefits the Licensor receives from making the Licensed Material available under these terms and conditions.

Process for identification of and dealing with allegations of research misconduct

Publisher and editors of SJRM are reasonable to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification/fabrication, among others. In doing so, SJRM follows COPE’s guidelines in dealing with allegations.

Ownership and management

SJRM is owned by Veterans Medical and Engineering Research Center, Iran, and is managed and published by Afarand Scholarly Publishing Ins.

Conflicts of interests

All SJRM Editorial Board members and the Editor-in-Chief submitted articles are gone under the same reviewing process as the other authors gone. In the cases that a reviewer suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a submitted manuscript or a reader suspects undisclosed conflict of interest in a published article (all authors are filling the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest at the submission time) SJRM will follow COPE’s guidelines.

Revenue sources/Advertising/Direct marketing

SJRM is financially supported completely by Veterans Medical and Engineering Research Center, Iran, and has no other sources for earning funds. SJRM accepts No advertisements on the site or even as a report article.

Publishing schedule/Archiving

SJRM has published 4 issues per year. All the content from the beginning to the end will be available forever on the SJRM exclusive website. Also, SJRM is included at EBSCOhost and has the plan to enter into Scopus and Thomson-Reuters databases.