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Over 1000 paediatricians are receiving this journal. The main objective is to encourage to publication of the research work of the members and also publish an invited articles related to child health to keep the members informed about the recent advance in prevention, diagnosis and management. Also, activities/ Events of various district branches are also informed to the members.
Our audience includes all the Professionals, Students, Researchers.
The Karnataka Paediatric Journal (KPJ) has a highly rigorous double-blinded peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts of interest, affiliations and financial disclosures such that the published content is not biased.
In-house submissions that contain the work of any editorial board member, are not allowed to be reviewed by that editorial board member and all decisions regarding this manuscript are made by an independent editor. In addition, these manuscripts are reviewed by two external reviewers. This is also disclosed in the published manuscript under the section of Conflict of Interest.
The editorial board comprises a panel of experts in Paediatrics from various countries to provide their expertise and guidance to the Editor-In-Chief in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the journal’s purpose.
Dr. Bhaskar Shenoy
Editor-in-Chief
Head, Department of Paediatrics,
Chief, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Division,
Manipal Hospital, 98, HAL Airport Road,
Bangalore – 560 017, India
editor@iap-kpj.org
Publications
Special Interest
Dr. Vinod Ratager
Managing Editor
Professor, Dept. of Paediatrics,
Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences,
Hubli – 580021, Karnataka, India
ratageri@rediffmail.com
Dr. N K Kalappanavar
Associate Editor
Medical Director, Professor & Head,
Dept. of Paediatrics,
SS Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre,
Davangere – 577005, Karnataka, India
nijukalappanavar@gmail.com
The Karnataka Paediatric Journal (KPJ) is a peer-reviewed international journal with a double-blind review process. Its frequency of publication is semiannual. The Karnataka Paediatric Journal (KPJ) is published in E-Journal format and the journal is also available in print on demand.
A manuscript published in the Karnataka Paediatric Journal (KPJ) can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees. The author retains the copyright of the manuscript and the figures. This allows authors to extend their exposure in the world of medical research and get worldwide recognition for their work.
The journal is indexed with or included in the following:
EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica (Accepted)
The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Google Scholar, ReadCube, CrossRef, Portico
The Karnataka Paediatric Journal (KPJ) is committed to meeting and upholding ethical guidelines at all stages of the publication process. We 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. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines Section
We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our manuscripts are assigned a DOI number from CROSSREF, and we are members of Crossref ( https://crossref.org).
Karnataka Paediatric Journal is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. The Karnataka Paediatric Journal (KPJ) has a policy that changes will not be made after publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.
While advertisements are crucial to this journal to be able to keep all content free for everyone, ethical considerations are in place (https://scientificscholar.com/adv-policies/) to ensure the integrity of the journal and its content are not biased or influenced by the advertisement.
“Pop-up” and “Banner” advertisement appears at a fixed location on the page and does not interfere with the reading/display of the manuscript in any form (https://iap-kpj.org/advertise/).
All advertisements are approved in consultation with Editor-In-Chief/the Editorial Board.
Advertisers submit their advertisements without prior information of the journal content to be published.
The Karnataka Paediatric Journal (KPJ) is a semiannual publication and published manuscripts in the journal can be read and downloaded by readers all over the world without any charges or fees.
The journal is published in E-Journal format and the journal is also available in print on demand. Journal also offers a Print-on-Demand subscription – https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions/.
Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.
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ISSN (Print): 0975-5152
