Submission Checklist 

Before submitting your manuscript, make sure that you have prepared the following Necessary Files for Manuscript Submission and Reporting Guidelines:
[You can download the template from here.]
     1. Cover Letter with Title Page  [Mandatory]
     2. Declaration from author [Mandatory]
     3. Blind Manuscript [Mandatory]
     4. Ethical Approval Letter (for Original Research Article only)
     5. Checklist of Reporting Guideline for specific research design. Click to Explore more ...
     6. Supplementary files (if any)­­­
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­­­Submission to the Journal should be made online. New users need to Register on the website. If you have already registered, simply log in to the website and click on Make a Submission. For additional technical assistance, contact: editor@jkahs.org.np  

Submission to the Journal should be made online. New users need to Register on the website. If you have already registered, simply log in to the website and click on  Make a new submission or view your pending submissions if you any pending submission on JKAHS. For additional technical assistance, contact: editor@jkahs.org.np 

Background 

Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (JKAHS) is an open access, indexed, peer-reviewed journal established in 2018 AD. Three issues (Jan-Apr, May-Aug and Sep-Dec) are published per year both online and in print with pISSN (2616-0064) and eISSN (2676-1327). 

JKAHS is an official Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (KAHS) which is a government organization established on October 20, 2011 AD (2068/07/03 BS) by an act of Parliament of Nepal with the objectives of promoting quality healthcare services, medical education and research in the remote area. Click to Explore more ...

Editorial Process

All submitted manuscripts are first screened by the managing editor to ensure completeness of the submission, its alignment with the aim and scope of the  journal, its adherence to the basic ethics guidelines and general format. If the managing editor decides that the submission is suitable for review, a section editor (e.g., academic or other editors) is assigned for the manuscript. The responsible section editor  assesses the submission for its quality and assigns at least two peer-reviewers. The section editor communicates the editorial and the peer-review comments along with the provisional editorial decision on the submission to the corresponding author. Possible provisional decisions are ‘Accepted for publication’,  ‘Minor revisions required’, ‘Major revisions required’, ‘Unable to publish’. We make every effort to reach an initial decision within six weeks of submission. The Editor-in-Chief makes the final editorial decision and communicates the same to the corresponding author. Click to explore more …

Peer Review Policy

We adopt the double-blind peer-review process—reviewers are not aware of the authors’ identities and the authors are not aware of the reviewers’ identities. Original research article, hypothesis or theory article, review article, case report, brief comunication and protocol are peer-reviewed by at least two external reviewers in addition to editorial team, whereas the editorial, letter to editor, opinion and commentary are reviewed by editorial board members.
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Ethical Guidelines

We closely follow the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices to meet these requirements. Any research that involves humans in any stage of the work must be conducted under the Declaration of Helsinki (1964).  A statement to ethical approval must be appeared in the methods section of the manuscript, including the name of the body from which approval has been provided, with a reference number where appropriate. Informed consent must also be documented. For all articles that include information or clinical photographs relating to individual patients, written and signed consent from each patient to publish must also be made available if requested by the editorial board. JKAHS requires authors to declare the source of funding, any competing financial or other interest in relation to their work.  

JKAHS encourages all authors to follow the reporting guidelines to maximize the transparency and reproducibility of their research by using appropriate reporting guidelines while preparing their manuscripts. The reporting guidelines are available on the website of EQUATOR network (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research. 
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Policy to Handle Research Misconduct

Cases of suspected research misconduct including data falsification, data fabrication, data manipulation, authorship misconduct and plagiarism are handled as per the spirit of COPE guidelines. JKAHS does not accept use of Artificial Inteligence (AI) tools including ChatGPT, Google Bard, image creator or similar while preparing the manuscript. 
Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism is an act of copying someone's theories, ideas, or statements without giving the explicit acknowledgement to the author of the original source. It is unethical in scientific writing. JKAHS routinely screenes the manuscripts to detects possible plagiarism and does not accept the manuscript with plagiarism in any form.
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Authorship Criteria

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) provides criteria for authorship in medical and scientific publications. According to the ICMJE criteria, an individual should meet the following four conditions to be credited as an author:       
1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work.
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content.
3. Final approval of the version to be published.
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work, ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Copyrights & Licencing

The author(s) retain the copyright and the full publishing right without restriction. Author(s) grant the non-exclusive publishing right to the Journal of Karnali Academy of Health Sciences (JKAHS). The publishing rights include the rights to publish, reproduce, distribute, include in indexes or search databases or other media in print or online. All the work is published under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) which allows readers to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, even commercially, provided the work is properly attributed.
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Manuscript Preparation

The types of article that JKAHS publishes include: original research article, theory or hypothesis article, review article, case report, short/brief communication, opinion, commentary, protocol, letter to editor, and editorial. For the general format and style of manuscript, click on the Manuscript Preparation Guidelines

Citation & References

JKAHS uses the Vancouver system as specified by the Citing Medicine. Only articles, datasets and abstracts that have  been published or are in press, or are available through public e-print/preprint servers, may be cited. The unpublished abstracts, unpublished data and personal communications should not be included in the reference list, but may be included in the text and referred to as "unpublished observations" or "personal communications" giving the names of the involved researchers. Obtaining permission to quote personal communications and unpublished data from the cited colleagues is the responsibility of the author. Click to explore more …