Journal Quality Management

In Bulletin of Natural Sciences Research, manuscripts are submitted in MS Word through SCIndeks Assistant, available to all interested potential authors from the Journal’s page in SCIndeks.

SCIndeks Assistant enables authors to track the progress of their manuscripts through the review process and revise them, if requested. All communications among authors, reviewers and Editorial board during this process are made via email and saved permanently in a database.

The system also provides several tools that help authors to improve their manuscripts in accordance with suggestions of reviewers and Editorial Board demands.

The details about how the application is used for submission of a manuscript and tracking the subsequent decision making about its publishing are available in SCIndeks Assistant Help. To read the Help, you don’t need to register.

In managing editorial and administrative tasks, including those related to authors and their papers, Bulletin of Natural Sciences Research relies upon SCIndeks Editor Service. Through this channel, we are also provided with technical support, expert opinions, and tailor-made solutions, protecting the journal and authors from various threats. Technical support is intended for Editorial Board only. Exceptionally, it is used for the needs of individual authors, at their demand.

SCIndeks Editor Service is also used for managing the Repository, subscription bookkeeping, and consulting with SCIndeks publisher on publishing standards and good practices. All correspondence, including phone conversations, is routinely recorded and preserved for future communication.

Our publishing and licensing policy is highly elaborate and fully open, due to which potential authors can be duly informed about all of their rights and obligations before submitting a manuscript.

In defining and updating policies, the editorial board is assisted by our aggregator through a service called Policy&Licencing Support System (P&LSS). P&LSS is a means to ensure that policies meet international publishing standards and good practices. It is primarily focused on accommodating the requirements for inclusion in DOAJ, launched in March 2014.

Acceptance in DOAJ, as a source based on quality control and follow-up, has become a de facto proof of legitimacy, and is regarded as a sort of international certificate of validity for OA journals. Indexing in DOAJ brings to our journal a higher level trustability, while ensuring additional visibility to both our papers and their authors.

Four different indicators of the journal’s impact in SCIndeks and WoS are monitored and calculated once a year. The citations to individual papers are also monitored and published in SCIndeks on the article’s page.

In addition to indicators of impact, Bulletin of Natural Sciences Research is carefully and thoroughly monitored for multiple publishing features that fall under term ‘bibliometric quality’. Quality measures are expressed quantitatively and comparatively, in relation to other SCIndeks journals, thereby enabling the Editorial Board to improve the Journal’s publishing policy and to steer its strategic positioning.

Authors interested in publishing with Bulletin of Natural Sciences Research should be aware of features of their papers that contribute to the bibliometric quality of the Journal. Authors are expected to rely upon relevant recent literature, from trustable sources, primarily from quality journals. They should particularly avoid ethically disputable practices, such as undeserved authorship, manipulative citing, or using other people’s text and ideas without citing them properly. Such behaviours not only influence the assessment of the Journal’s quality, but also make damage to the reputation of authors and their affiliated institutions.

Bulletin of Natural Sciences Research is an Open Access (OA) journal. All its content is freely available to all with no delay. It is generally known that OA journals offer a greater visibility and availability than their non-OA counterparts, due to which papers published in OA journals are more usable and citable, all other conditions being equal. Publishing with us offers to authors advantages that many prominent subscription-based journals cannot provide.

The high visibility of articles published in Bulletin of Natural Sciences Research is permanently ensured via SCIndeks and enhanced further through automatic re-indexing of metadata in DOAJ and article full text in Google Scholar.

The full-text availability of our articles is absolute. They are accessible at a click either from the Journal's page in SCIndeks or through DOI, whenever your paper is cited in an article published in a CrossRef journal.

Our license enables you, as an author, to additionally boost the visibility of your article by depositing it in digital repositories (institutional or subject-based) or posting it to your preferred social networks.