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Editorial Policies

The Journal is a member or follower of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)https://publicationethics.org/

Nanofabrication is self-funded by editorial services provided to academic organizations.

Copy Right Policy

The journal allows the author(s) to hold the copyright, and to retain publishing rights without any restrictions. 

The journal follows  Sherpa/Romeo's archiving policy.

Article Publishing Charge

There are no Article Processing Charges (APC) for publication of the journal on all submissions.

Advertisements : The journal does not accept adverts from third parties.

Appeals and Complaints

The journal adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines concerning appeals against editorial decisions and complaints related to the management of the peer review process. We encourage legitimate appeals against editor decisions, provided that substantial evidence or new data/information is presented in response to feedback from the editor and reviewers.

All complaints, concerns, or appeals related to authorship issues or the peer review process, including those arising post-publication, should be directed to the Editors-in-Chief. They will investigate by gathering information from all involved parties and proposing a course of action in accordance with COPE's ethical guidelines. The review or publication process may be paused until the issue is resolved. If the Editors-in-Chief are involved in the complaint, the Editorial Board, led by the most senior member, will investigate and determine the appropriate course of action.

 Open access policy

The journal is an open-access journal that provides immediate access to its published contents. Articles published are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NoDerivatives license (CC BY- ND 4.0) which permits re-use (download, read, print, search, copy, distribute the link, etc.) of open-access articles, as long as the original author and source are properly attributed, and provided the articles are not modified or altered.

Copyright and License Authors retain copyright over the materials published under an Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license.

 

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts are subjected to peer review and are expected to meet the standards of academic excellence. If approved by the editor, submissions will be considered by peer reviewers, whose identities will remain anonymous to the authors and vice versa; identities of authors will remain anonymous to the reviewers (Double-blind peer review). The decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript is the responsibility of the editorial board and is based on the recommendations of the reviewers (peer-reviewed process).

Our Research Integrity team occasionally seeks advice outside standard peer review, for example, on submissions with serious ethical, security, biosecurity, or societal implications. We may consult experts and the academic editor before deciding on appropriate actions, including but not limited to recruiting reviewers with specific expertise, assessment by additional editors, and declining to consider a submission further.