APPEALS & COMPLAINTS
If an author believes their manuscript has been incorrectly rejected, an appeal letter can be submitted by responding to the decision email directly or contacting editorjppspak@gmail.com

To have an appeal considered, please provide full details regarding your reasoning for the appeal letter. All appeals are reviewed and discussed during the Editorial Team meeting with a final decision communicated to the author via email. Please note that only one appeal per manuscript will be considered.

We expect our readers, reviewers, and editors to raise any suspicions of plagiarism, duplicate or redundant publication either by contacting the editor at editorjppspak@gmail.com

Where an allegation of research misconduct is made to the journal by an author, reader or peer reviewer, the journal’s prime concern is the integrity of content it has published. The Editor-in-Chief or his nominated representative will work in line with COPE guidance, and appropriate institutions or organisations, to investigate the allegation. 

Please direct all complaints to the Editor-in-Chief or the editorial office at editorjppspak@gmail.com

Ombudsperson
If you need to question an editorial decision, the first step should be to contact the JPPS editorial team. However, if you are not satisfied with the response, the next point of contact is our Ombudsperson, whose task is to record and, when required, investigate allegations of editorial maladministration. Our files will be accessible to their inspection, and confidentiality will be respected in all cases.
JPPS Ombudsperson’s task does not extend to issues of editorial content and editorial policy.

JPPS Ombudsperson Contact:
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Raza Shah TI, Ph.D., FRCP (Edinburgh),
International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Pakistan.
Email: raza_shahm@yahoo.com