{"id":32,"date":"2023-09-30T11:55:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:49:31","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>About the Journal:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>5 year&#8217;s Impact Factor: 0.15<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Total Journal Citations: 10<br \/>\n<\/strong>Citations from Google Scholar-07: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C5&amp;q=Utilization+of+Microbes+for+Sustainable+Agriculture%3A+Review&amp;btnG=\">View<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Citations from other databases-03: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com\/?page_id=1588&amp;preview=true\">View<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">International Journal of Microbial Science is open access and peer-reviewed, referred journal. The journal publishes one issue per year and articles are available in the online format.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Journal Particulars:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><strong>Title:<\/strong>\u00a0International Journal of Microbial Science<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Frequency:<\/strong> Annual<br \/>\n<strong>ISSN (online):<\/strong> 2582-967X<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Publisher:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dhakane Rajesh Dagdu,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">S\/O Dhakane Dagdu,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dhakanwadi, Beed, Nandurghat,<br \/>\nMaharashtra, 431126, India.<br \/>\nEmail:admin@internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com<br \/>\nMobile: +91 8788383470.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><\/b><b>Chief Editor<\/b><b>:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>Dr Mubarak Ali Davoodbasha,<br \/>\nAssistant Professor,\u00a0School of Life Sciences,<br \/>\nB.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai \u2013 600048, Tamil Nadu, India.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Scopus ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scopus.com\/inward\/authorDetails.url?authorID=39661069400&amp;partnerID=MN8TOARS\">View\u00a0<\/a>ORCID:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8133-8676\">View\u00a0<\/a>Publons ID:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publons.com\/wos-op\/researcher\/608501\/mubarakali\/\">View\u00a0<\/a>Web of Science Researcher ID:<a href=\"http:\/\/e-3276-2012\/\">\u00a0View<\/a>\u00a0Google Scholar\u00a0Profile:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.in\/citations?user=ur2SdIoAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">View<\/a>\u00a0Research Gate Profile:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Davoodbasha_MubarakAli2\">View\u00a0<\/a>LiveDNA profile:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/livedna.org\/91.4062\">View\u00a0<\/a>LinkedIN profile:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/davoodbasha-mubarakali-b0555791\">View<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Email:<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">mubarakali.sls@crescent.education<\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Mobile: <\/b>+91 9943535774<br \/>\n<b>Phone<\/b><b>: <\/b>Not Applicable<b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Copyright<\/b><b>:\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This work is licensed under a<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License <\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Starting year<\/b><b>: <\/b>2020<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Subject: <\/b>Biological sciences in general<br \/>\n<b>Language<\/b><b>: <\/b>English<b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Publication Format<\/b><b>: <\/b>Online<br \/>\n<b>Publication Duration:<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Submission to first decision of acceptance \u2013 42 days (six weeks), Acceptance to Publication: Maximum 14 Days (two weeks)<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Acceptance rate:<\/b>10%<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Journal Indexing: <\/b>NA<\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Website<\/b><b>: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com\/\">https:\/\/internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com\/\u00a0<\/a><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b>Address:<\/b> S\/O Dhakane Dagdu, Dhakanwadi, Beed, Nandurghat, Maharashtra, 431126,India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Review Policy:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>All submissions received by International Journal of Microbial Science are first reviewed for completeness by Chief Editor who decides whether those are comfortable for the peer-review process by the Double Blind Peer-review method. If an Editor is one of the authors, the work will be handed over to another board member for effective review. Editors are not bound to publish poor-quality work. The manuscript will be rejected if either Editor or any other board member raises the concern. The peer-review report is sent to authors after evaluation of their manuscripts with the editorial decision of rejection, revision, or acceptance. The Editorial Board Members review the manuscripts with help of external reviewers and some Editorial Board members of the journal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Digital preservation and archiving:<br \/>\n<\/strong>All articles are digitally preserved in the journal website space. These are available online for readers use at <a href=\"https:\/\/internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com\/index.php\/archives\/\">https:\/\/internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com\/index.php\/archives\/. <\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All the articles published in this journal are permitted to access freely by directly downloading from the website. These can be received by contacting <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">at<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">admin@internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com,<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">even if, in future, the journal is no longer published.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Journal Policies:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Copyright and Licensing: <\/strong>This work is licensed under a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a>(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) that permits noncommercial use of the work provided that credit must be given to the creator and adaptation must be shared under the same terms. The\u00a0 copyright of an article belongs to the authors. The journal allows the authors to retain the copyright of their articles with no restrictions.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The journal uses a Creative Commons license for informing the readers how the published articles can be used. Authors offer the publisher the right of the first publication. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It does not impose restrictions on both authors and users that contrast the provisions provided in the licensing policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Open Access Policy: <\/strong>The journal provides free access to the published data using an open license (creative commons available at<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)). The copyright holder allows use of rights to the other people by an open license (<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License<\/a> (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This offers quick free access to the work and allows any user to download, read, copy, print, distribute, search or link to the full texts of the articles, use them for indexing, pass them as data to software or utilize them for any other lawful purpose. The complete text of all content is made available for free and open access without any delay. There is no embargo period and users are not required to register for the reading of content.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Conflict of Interest:\u00a0<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>Authors should declare that no conflict of interest exists among them regarding the manuscript submitted by them in the journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Article Processing Charges:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rs.3000\/- (for Indian authors)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">38.70 Dollars (for others)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Grant support details:<br \/>\n<\/strong>International Journal of Microbial Science is a self-financed journal and it doesn\u2019t get funding from any funding agency. Authors should offer acknowledgement to their funders or sources of funding in their articles to have better teamwork among researchers and their commercial supporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Revenue Sources:\u00a0<\/strong>The journal accepts Article Processing Charges (APCs) from the authors for publication of their papers. The journal does not charge subscription fees. Additionally, it does not entertain advertising, reprints, institutional support and organizational support.\u00a0 Either publication fees or waiver status does not influence editorial decision-making.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Advertising:\u00a0<\/strong>The journal does not accept advertisements.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Direct Marketing:\u00a0<\/strong>The journal has no direct marketing policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Adherence to Community Standards:<br \/>\n<\/strong>We take care that the published articles are consistent with accepted good practices in their respective areas. All journal policies and publications adhere to the community standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Author Distribution:\u00a0<\/strong>Our authors have their affiliations, geographical variations as well as records with respect to publications that ensures their roles in the scientific community related to the scope of the journal.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Appropriate citations to the literature:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Authors should cite the background literature for the topic to ensure appreciation of the intellectual efforts of researchers across the globe.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Scholarly Content:\u00a0<\/strong>The journal contains scholarly content. The level of reported research work is suitable for a graduate, post-doctoral as well as professional research audience.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Content Significance:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The articles published in the journal have value to their intended readers as well subscribers of the web of science. The unusual content of the journal has a unique specialization, and perspective which is a novel, regional focus enriching the horizons of the web of science.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Waiver Policy:\u00a0<\/strong>Not Applicable<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Author right: <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The terms of the Creative Commons license do not apply to the copyright holder. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ethics and Malpractice Statement:\u00a0<\/strong>Authors are recommended to follow publication ethics with responsibility and legal aspects of the work. Plagiarism should be strictly avoided. The manuscripts that violate ethics rules and malpractices are rejected and returned to the authors.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Content Access:\u00a0<\/strong>The readers can access the published articles directly from the journal website and there are no subscription fees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Publication Ethics:<br \/>\n<\/strong>International Journal of Microbial Science follows guidelines by the <a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/files\/cope-retraction-guidelines-v2.pdf\">Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE)<\/a><strong>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Post-Publication Discussions, Corrections and Retraction:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Maximum scientific potentials receive an opportunity to read the published content and discuss on it owing to the open-access policy. After publication, if errors are found in the articles, the journal will communicate to the concerned editor\/editors, author\/authors, and organization of authors. Corrigendum can be used to correct errors by authors and erratum by publishers. Moreover, retraction or concern expression will be recommended if errors affect the conclusion or in case of any misconduct. International Journal of Microbial Science uses guidelines by<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">the<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/files\/cope-retraction-guidelines-v2.pdf\">Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE)<\/a>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The articles that are published will be retracted if unreliable data is detected, which can be a consequence of either misconduct that occurred scientifically or an honest error. To maintain a scientific record, the article will not be withdrawn from the website but notice regarding the issue will be published for the reference of global readers. Authors, publishers or editors can publish the retraction. However, in case of legal infringement, the publisher has the right to remove the article with exception of the bibliography to<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">maintain scientific integrity. We use<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24318\/cope.2019.1.4\">COPE guidelines<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">regarding it. We also publish erratum\/corrigendum in conjunction with the published article whenever required to support scientific integrity.\u00a0 These corrections are freely made available to the readers. The journal publishes clarifications, apologies, and corrections wherever needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Content\u00a0 Relevance:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>The journal assures that the published data is consistent with both the title and its scope. The study should be relevant to the journal\u2019s mission or readers of it. It should address either vital problems or issues. Moreover, it should be helpful to add new data in already available literature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ethical approvals\/oversight, patient rights and informed consent:<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Patient Rights:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since patients have the authority to maintain privacy, the proposed study should be undertaken with their consents. Publication of their identities is not recommended in the forms, for example, photographs, descriptions, and pedigrees if it is not needed for scientific purposes and the patients agree through written consent. The informed consent must be reported in the article. However, the patient\u2019s consent letter should not be included in the article. Authors should only report this in the article in the form of a statement since the direct publication of a letter in the article uncovers the patient\u2019s identity. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is a requirement for ethical standards when the research object is a human being<\/span>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wma.net\/policies-post\/wma-declaration-of-helsinki-ethical-principles-for-medical-research-involving-human-subjects\/\">Helsinki Declaration of 1964<\/a>,<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0revised in 2000). The experiments on humans must be permitted by authorized committees or any other equivalent bodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Rights of animals:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Researchers must handle animals in the laboratory with ethical standards. There is a need for permission to work on animals for research from the related Ethical Committee. (National Institutes of Health. Principles of laboratory animal care. NIH publication. 1985:85-23.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Clinical Trial Registration:<br \/>\n<\/strong>There is a need to register clinical trials in the database which is available to the public. Authors should report the clinical trial registration number in the article wherever necessary. Authors are required to follow the minimum instructions in order to report randomized trials\u00a0(<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consort-statement.org\/\">The CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) 2010 guideline<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Plagiarism and similarity index policy:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Authors should take care that their draft of a manuscript must be original and there should be the author\u2019s own tone of writing. If the authors used work by others, it should be properly cited and referenced. All articles submitted to the journal are screened through Turnitin (online similarity index detection software). We take appropriate action against the authors whose work reported unacceptable similarity index and plagiarism, which includes:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1.Restricting the authors from future publications.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.Informing their funding agencies, organizations, and to the original authors whose works have been plagiarized.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We follow the flow charts by COPE for dealing with the complaints regarding plagiarism available at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24318\/cope.2019.2.1\">Suspected plagiarism in a submitted manuscript<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24318\/cope.2019.2.2\">Suspected plagiarism in a published manuscript.<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">International Journal of Microbial Science does not tolerate the plagiarism, falsification of the data, manipulation of the image, and false authorship credit.<span class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"0f03dd4f-3468-418e-b4e2-79316d863d01\"><span class=\"UV3uM\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Presence of ethics, authorship and contributorship:<br \/>\nFor reviewers:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The scientifically motivated work of peer reviewers is valuable in order to maintain not only standard publications but also the integrity of science. The peer reviewers are recommended to follow\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24318\/cope.2019.1.9\">COPE guidelines<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">as well as the peer-review policy of the journal. In addition, the reviewers are advised to understand the conflict of interest statement provided by the journal and ensure compliance with it.\u00a0\u00a0Further, it is expected from the reviewers to support both objectives and the confidentiality of a double-blind peer review.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>For authors:<br \/>\n<\/strong>All contributors should contribute to the article through all possible means. The authorship criteria should be based on the following parameters<\/span> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icmje.org\/recommendations\/browse\/roles-and-responsibilities\/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html\">International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [ICMJE]<\/a>):<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Considerable contribution to not only the concept, design, acquisition, and analysis of work but also the interpretation of the data.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. Both drafting as well as revising the work for valuable intellectual content.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. Agreement for reality and integrity of the data to be published.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors should ensure compliance with the policies of the journal such as conflict of interest, plagiarism, ethical approvals, patient\u2019s rights and informed consent and correction and retraction policy. Authors should provide enough data, proper citations and references. It should be entertained to support the reproducibility of the research work. Inaccurate data is considered unethical and it is not accepted. Authors may be asked to provide supplementary data by the review board for high-profile and standard review. Authors should provide public access to their data and retain it for a prolonged duration after publication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Redundant or duplicate submission\/publication:<br \/>\n<\/strong>One manuscript should not be submitted at a time to many journals. The readers should get assurance that they are reading original data, which is a requirement of ethical aspects, international copyrights and cost-effective application of resources (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icmje.org\/recommendations\/browse\/roles-and-responsibilities\/journal-owners-and-editorial-freedom.html\"><span class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"d8f85d72-4d2e-4d66-9956-4284a57f6ba8\"><span class=\"UV3uM\">International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (<\/span><\/span>ICMJE) recommendations<\/a>).<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">If an editor is not aware of the multiple submissions and if the article got published in multiple journals due to multiple submissions, a notice regarding this will be published.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Acknowledgement and funding sources:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Authors are requested to provide precise acknowledgement in their articles related to those who supported their work. In addition, they should provide the funding resources in their articles along with the name of the funding agency, the grant number and a description of the role of the funder, if necessary. Authors should take care that funding organizations of the work should be reported in the article.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Publisher:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The publisher should guarantee the protection of not only intellectual property but also the copyrights of the authors. The personal data and privacy of both authors and peer reviewers are protected. We support peer reviewers and editors to boost editorial independence as well as integrity along with the transparency of the peer-review process. We follow guidelines provided by <span class=\"pjBG2e\" data-cid=\"d8f85d72-4d2e-4d66-9956-4284a57f6ba8\"><span class=\"UV3uM\">International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (<\/span><\/span>ICMJE) for\u00a0journal owners and editorial freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ethical issues regarding publication:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Monitoring:\u00a0<\/strong>The complaints regarding violation of ethical issues should be considered by the publishers and appropriate actions should be taken to resolve them. Authors\/readers can submit their complaints at<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">admin@internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Article withdrawal:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>We recommend corresponding authors to solve issues in the manuscript in relation to authorship, ethics of publication, accuracy as well as results when the submission process has been initiated. Prior to publication, authors can withdraw their articles at any time by sending us the withdrawal request at\u00a0 admin@internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com. The withdrawn manuscripts are not considered for further peer review and\/or publication process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Submissions from the Journal team:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The authors who are directly or indirectly involved in the journal\u2019s team will not be appointed for peer review of the manuscript submitted by them. Such manuscript will be handed over to other Editorial Board Members for stringent peer-review.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Avoiding compromise with both ethical and intellectual guidelines:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The funding agencies as well as sponsors should not interfere with the results produced by authors. The Editorial Board of the journal is bound to maintain the integrity of the scientific records, and avoid business strategies from interfering with not only ethical but also intellectual standards. The team is interested to publish apologies, clarifications, and retractions along with corrections whenever necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Misconduct and sanctions:<br \/>\n<\/strong>The possible violations of ethical standards by the journal should be reported at admin@internationaljournalofmicrobialscienc. The name of the reporter will not be exposed. Immediately, after receipt of the complaint, our editors will look into the matter seriously and investigate it thoroughly. In such a case, the concerned authors may be requested to provide related data, supplementary information and images. \u00a0The appeared concerns will be resolved. We reject the article if we found concerns such as duplicate submissions, plagiarism, fraud data, manipulation in the citations and wrong claims of authorship. If the same is found after publication, the article will be retracted as per the retraction guidelines of COPE<\/span>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/node\/19896\">COPE Retraction Guidelines<\/a>).\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We follow the flow chart provided by COPE<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">at<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/guidance\/Flowcharts\">https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/guidance\/Flowcharts<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">in order to handle the misconduct.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">If the misconduct is very severe affecting scientific standards, we may not allow submissions for a minimum of 1 year, not allow working as a reviewer or an editor and report the misconduct to the organization of authors and their funding agencies. Nevertheless, the minor and unintentional mistakes will be resolved with corrigendum by authors and erratum by publishers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Complaints and appeals:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Authors and readers are promoted to report the complaints at admin@internationaljournalofmicrobialscience.com. All complaints will be carefully resolved and the names of complaints reported will not be exposed. If the authors\/readers didn\u2019t get a solution to their complaints, they are requested to contact us<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">at rajeshdhakane001@gmail.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Data sharing and reproducibility:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Anyone can copy as well as redistribute, reproduce the content in any either suitable medium or format and transform, remix and build up the published data under the terms which are as follows:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>1. Attribution:<\/strong>\u00a0The user must provide appropriate credit to the original author.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2. Non-Commercial:<\/strong>\u00a0Users are not allowed to use the published content for commercial applications.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>2. Share Alike:<\/strong>\u00a0If the user remixes, transforms and builds upon the content, he\/she is advised to distribute his\/her contributions under the same license as the original.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>3.No additional restrictions:<\/strong>\u00a0User should not apply the legal terms or technological measures which legally prohibit others from doing anything the license permits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Intellectual property rights:<br \/>\n<\/strong>It is recommended to maintain a balance between open access and intellectual property rights based on the type of information involved. 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