PRE-PRINT

Effective January 1, 2025, Khyber Medical University Journal (KMUJ) will not accept or publish manuscripts that have been previously posted as preprints.

A preprint is defined as any version of a manuscript made publicly available prior to peer review, including postings on:

• Personal or institutional websites
• Public repositories or archives (e.g., arXiv, bioRxiv, ResearchGate)
• Social media or academic networking platforms

This policy is implemented to:

• Preserve the integrity of KMUJ’s double-blind peer review process, ensuring that neither authors nor reviewers can identify each other through publicly available manuscript versions.
• Ensure compliance with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan’s similarity index requirements, as preprints can contribute to elevated similarity scores.
• Maintain the originality and exclusivity of content published in KMUJ.
• Any manuscript submitted to KMUJ that is found to have been previously posted as a preprint will be rejected without peer review. Authors are advised to submit their work directly to KMUJ without prior public dissemination.

 

AUTHOR’S ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT (AAM)

KMUJ defines an Author’s Accepted Manuscript (AAM) as the version of a manuscript that has been accepted for publication after peer review but before copyediting, typesetting, and final proofing.

To ensure consistency, citation accuracy, and compliance with indexing and copyright policies, KMUJ does not permit the public posting, sharing, or distribution of the AAM prior to publication of the final Version of Record (VoR) on the KMUJ website.

 

PUBLISHED ARTICLE (VERSION OF RECORD)

Published article is the version published (online/print) in a journal following peer review, copyediting and typesetting.

Author(s) retain the right to share/disseminate the published article without any embargo period, by any means including twitter, scholarly collaboration networks like Google Scholar, LinkedIn, Academia.edu, ResearchGate, X (Twitter), and any other personal, professional or academic website. 

A link to the published version on the publisher’s website:

Authors should preferably give a link to the published version on the KMUJ website:

 “This is a post-peer-review version of an article published in Khyber Medical University Journal [Year, Volume number, Issue Number]. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/[insert DOI]”.