Journal’s policies

Open Journal Policy

The Baghdad Science Journal is an open journal, therefore there are no fees required for downloading any publication from the journal website by authors, readers, and institution. The journal applies the license of CC BY (a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International  license). This license allows authors  to keep ownership f the copyright of their papers. But this license permits any user to download , print out, extract, reuse, archive, and distribute the article, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and the source of the work. The license ensures that the article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive.

 Copyright and licensing

The journal applies the license of CC BY (a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International  license). This license allows authors  to keep ownership f the copyright of their papers. But this license permits any user to download, print out, extract, reuse, archive, and distribute the article, so long as appropriate credit is given to the authors and the source of the work. The license ensures that the article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive.

Publication charge policy

Baghdad Science Journe is an open access journal, so there are no subscription fees. The journal is charged for a single accepted manuscript (10 pages) of 175000 IQD or $100 to support publishing service costs. There is not charged until the manuscript is accepted for publication and not affect any editorial decisions.  

No fees required for developing countries.

While other authors should pay the publishing fee as follows:

1. Author residing in Iraq:
   The amount of (175,000) IQD for publication fees after acceptance of the manuscript.
2. Authors residing outside Iraq have to pay the fee publication of $100.
3. Payment method: the payment can pay through Western
   Union to the following address:
   Name: Nada Abdulhussein Sukkar
   ID: 776313
   Tel: +964 790 1197418
   Address: College of Science for Women, University of Baghdad,
   Baghdad, Iraq.
   After sending your payment, please provide the scan copy of payment
   and inform us via journal’s email ([email protected]).
   Journal of Baghdad for Science
   College of Science for Women
   University of Baghdad
   Al-Jadirya/ Baghdad P.O. B

Archive policy:

The Baghdad Science journal is an open journal, which allows to access to all published papers on its website without any charge. Also, the published papers in the journal are archived in the following archive system in Iraq:

1. Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals:
2. Repository of University of Baghdad

To view the journal archive in these services go to:

https://www.iasj.net/iasj?func=issues&jId=32&uiLanguage=en

http://rep.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/browse/index/17

These services allows to create an advance searchable index of journal archive and to keep a record of all the open access archives of the journals of the University of Baghdad and other Iraqi journals that contain information a broad array of subjects with multidisciplinary knowledge with the a aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content and increasing the availability of scholarly communication.

Peer review policy:

This journal operates a double –blind peer review policy involving 2 external reviewers. Authors may suggest potential reviewers if they wish: however, the decision to consider these reviewers is at the editor’s discretion. Authors  who wish to suggest peer reviewers can do so in the cover letter and should provide institutional email addresses where possible or information which will help the Editor to verify and identify the potential introduced reviewers (for example an ORCID or Scopus ID). Authors may request the exclusion of individuals as peer reviewers, but they should explain the reasons in their cover letter on submission. Authors should not exclude too many individuals as this may hinder the peer review process. Please note that the editor may choose to invite excluded peer reviewers. Intentionally falsifying information, for example , suggesting reviewers with a false name or email address, will result in rejection of the manuscript and may lead to further investigation in line with our misconduct policy.