Peertechz: A trusted name in the crowd of flaky journals

The popularity of scholarly open access (OA) Journals is rapidly growing in amongst authors and readers. This has resulted in challenges for scholars having to identify and avoid low-quality and flaky publishers.
In this flood of new publishers with varying quality, Peertechz swears to show the path for legitimate journals. Peertechz puts forward various sets of criteria intended to allow scholars to assess the quality of the journals-

1. Focus on both readers and authors
Peertechz adopts various positive indicators to engage with all authors and readers. The organization responds promptly and constructively to inquiries within not more than one or two working days and offer a range of communication options such as email, phone, and social media platforms. Peertechz website clearly displays the complete postal address of the company. Peertechz Journals also have other communication options such as Skype, and ‘live chat’ functions to suffice the queries of authors and readers.

2. Creating value for articles
The organization puts extra efforts to modernize the published articles so that the articles are equipped with recent trends and demands. This includes providing RSS feeds, XML formats and OAI-PMH for all the published articles. The articles are assigned with Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) as soon as they reach the final publication. Peertechz clearly demonstrates policy on publication of corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions. The company is actively involved in collaborating with permanent article archiving databases. Till the date of writing this article, Peertechz has successfully joined hands with Portico, AGRIS, JGate, TDNet, and CNKI. The organization is also a signatory publisher of ORCID and DORA.

3. Ethics at every stage of publication
Peertechz has taken several measures to make the online publication a fair practice. The company ensures that authors meet ethical and legal obligations to maintain the integrity of the literature. Where necessary Peertechz also act retrospectively to address ethical or legal issues with due recognition to the fundamental reality that after a paper has been published it cannot be ‘unpublished’ or ‘republished’. The organization actively rely on ‘Plagiarism Scanning’ and uses trustable software, ‘iThenticate’ to create a guard against plagiarism.

4. Guidance with policies
Peertechz has clear criteria and transparency on every aspect of publishing.

i. Peer review process:
All the submitted articles are subjected to Peer-Review. The Peer-Review process is a major tool in attaining suggestions on manuscripts contents and structure from experts under the scope of the journal subject area. All the Peertechz journals websites clearly describe the methodology and steps of Peer-Review procedure.

ii. Journal governing Bodies:
All the Peertechz Journals have Reviewer and Editorial boards. The board members are experienced and recognized experts in the Journal subject areas and scope. The details of all the board members such as full names, Email IDs, addresses and affiliations are provided clearly on the Journals webpages.

iii. Article Processing Charges: Peertechz Journals maintains a webpage that clearly states the fees or charges required for manuscript processing. The authors can easily check the charges/waiver/withdrawal policies before submitting their manuscripts. The charges are also explained to the authors through emails and other sources prior to article submission. Peertechz assures that no hidden or extra charges are asked to the authors after publication of their manuscripts.

iv. Publication Policies: All the types of licensing policies along with Copyright and Authorship are clearly illustrated on the Peertechz homepage.

v. Dealing with allegations: Peertechz ensures that reasonable steps are undertaken to identify and prevent any sort of misconduct in the publication of the scientific kinds of stuff. Any sort of misconduct is dealt very seriously and in no case the governing bodies of the journals allow such incidences to happen. All the journals follow COPE guidelines in dealing with Plagiarism, conflict of interest, animal & human rights and informed consent issues among other sensitive issues related to scientific publication.

Peertechz is a service that identifies high quality, legitimate and peer-reviewed Open Access journals. The organization displays and practices all the necessary policies that mark the achievement of best practices in Open Access publication and having high publishing standards. Peertechz suggests authors analyze a journal quality by checking the journal policies on the website. It may be possible that a journal is legitimate but has not sought inclusion on the indexing databases or does not has sufficient funding to meet some of the Indexing databases requirements.

Peertechz is involved in online/web publishing services in the science and medicine-related sectors. We process and publish Open-Access scholarly journals online. Our goal to deliver top-tier performance in online publishing while creating sustainable value for ongoing researches and inventions.

Maha Donepudi,
Publishing Director,
Peertechz Publications Pvt. Ltd.
#S2, 215, Kavuri Hills, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad-500033, TS, India
Tel: +9140 42218185
indexing@ptjonline.com

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