Editorial Board
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES
NJBMS is a quarterly peer reviewed national journal, published by the Society for Basic Medical Sciences, a publication of Vinayaka Mission’s Kirupananda Variyar Medical College, Salem, a constituent college of Vinayaka Missions University. The journal publishes scientific articles in Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Pathology, Microbiology, Pharmacology and Medical Education.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-In-Chief
Dr. R.Thamilselvi
Professor & HOD, Dept. of Pathology, VMKV Medical College & Hospitals, Salem.
Advisory Board
Dr. P.S. Manoharan
Dr. Deepti Shastri Dr. K. Ezhil Vendhan Dr. G. Kannan
Deputy Dean Director & HOD Medical Superintendent,
VMKVMCH Hospital Development Committee VMKVMCH
Dr. P.M. Subramaniam Dr. P. Jones Ronald
Professor of Pathology, AMC Professor of Nephrology
Associate Editors
Dr. S. Rajaram Dr. R. Indra Priyadharshini Dr. Evangeline Jones
Professor of Pharmacology Professor of Microbiology Professor of Biochemistry
Dr. B. Usha Dr. S. Sangeetha Dr. R. Shankar
Professor of Microbiology Professor of Community Medicine Professor of Community Medicine
Chief Co-ordinator of Indexing & Publishing
Dr. B. Senthil Kumar
Asst. Professor of Anatomy
Executive Editors
Dr. K.C. Shanthi Dr. V. Suganthi Dr. V. Sivasankari
Professor of Anatomy Professor of Physiology Professor of Pharmacology
Dr. D. Ponnudhali Dr. C.K. Vijaya Samundeeswari Dr. R. Sudha
Professor of Biochemistry Professor of Biochemistry Associate. Professor of Biochemistry
Dr. A.Venkata Raghavendra Rao Dr. B. Saranya Dr. R. Ramya
Associate. Professor of Microbiology Asst. Prof. of Pathology Asst. Prof. of Pharmacology
Dr. C. Megala
Tutor of Pathology
National Editorial Board
ANATOMY |
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Dr. Prashant Natekar, Bambolim |
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Dr. Usha Kothandaraman, Chennai |
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Dr. S.P.Thangaraj,Chennai Dr. T. Rajan,Puducherry |
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Dr. K. Santhini Arulselvi, Karaikkal |
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Dr. Sheela Grace,CBE |
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Dr. D. Suguna, Chennai |
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Dr. N. Aruna, Salem |
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Dr. K.Y. Manjunath, Salem |
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Dr. V. Subhadra Devi, Tirupati |
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Dr. Praveen R.Singh, Karamsad |
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Dr. Dilip.D.Ksheersagar, Nagpur |
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Dr. K.L.Talukdar, Guwahati |
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Dr. Lola Das, Thrissur |
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PHYSIOLOGY |
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Dr. Shashibala Singh, New Delhi |
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Dr. Viswanath Rao, Chennai |
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Dr. Amrit Mirajkar, Mangalore |
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Dr. D.Venkatesh, Bengaluru |
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Dr. Bindu Kutty, Bengaluru |
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Dr. S.N.Nataraj, Mysore |
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Dr. D.L.Ramachandra, Bengaluru |
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Dr. N.G.Borade, Pimpri |
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Dr. A.N.Kowale, Pune |
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Dr. A.D. Surdi, Ambajogai |
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Dr. Col. Anuj Chawla, Pune |
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Dr. R.H.Taklikar, Raichur
BIOCHEMISTRY |
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Dr.Gautam Sarkar, Meerut Dr. M.G.Sridhar,Puducherry |
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Dr. Sucheta Dandekar, Mumbai |
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Dr. Kalavathi Ponniraivan,Trichy |
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Dr. A. Renuka,Chennai |
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Dr. Vivian D’ Souza, Mangalore |
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Dr. R.Nagendran,Chennai |
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Dr. Jothi Malar R,Chennai |
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Dr. B.D.Toora,Puducherry |
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Dr. P.K.Mohanty,Madurai |
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MICROBIOLOGY |
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Dr. K.S.Seetha, Puducherry |
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Dr. Rosy Vennila, Chennai |
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Dr. M.V.Ramannama, Hyderabad |
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Dr. Radha Madhavan, Chennai |
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Dr. Sethumadhavan, Puducherry |
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Dr. Jhansi Charles, Madurai. |
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Dr. A.G.Prathab, Bangaluru |
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Dr. M.Kalyani, Chennai |
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Dr. P.Sreenivasulu Reddy, Nellore |
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Dr. Shanmuga Vadivoo,Salem
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Dr. A. Kavitha, Salem. Dr. K.R.Rajesh, Salem. |
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PATHOLOGY |
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Dr. Sumeet Gujral, Mumbai |
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Dr. A.V.Shanthi, Chennai |
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Dr. Dolly Daniel,Vellore |
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Dr. Shalinee Rao, Delhi |
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Dr. Umesh Chandra Dash, Puducherry |
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Dr. Shameem Shariff, Bengaluru |
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Dr. R.Kalyani, Kolar |
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Dr. Chandra Mouleeshwari, Chennai |
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PHARMACOLOGY |
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Dr. S.Parvathavarthini, Chennai |
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Dr. Ramasamy S, Puducherry |
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Dr. T.N.Kumar, Bengaluru |
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Dr. K.Punnagai, Chennai |
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Dr. Jamuna Rani, Chennai |
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Dr. C.B.Tharani, Chennai |
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MEDICAL EDUCATION |
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Dr. Roseline Fatima William, Chennai |
Editoral Assistance
Anatomy DR.A.Perumal
Physiology Mrs.Pratima Bhutkar
Biochemistry Mrs. C.Anjugam
Microbiology Mrs.R.Vanajapriya,
Mrs.Hema Priyadarshini
International Editorial Board
BIOCHEMISTRY
Dr.Pavai Sthaneshwar, Malaysia
MICROBIOLOGY
Dr.Suma Rao, Singapore
EDITORIAL POLICY
Reviewer team members will not use ideas from or show another person the manuscript or supplementary materials they have been asked to review without the explicit permission of the manuscript's author. During the course of the review process the editor may request additional materials—including data—if they are seen as essential for judging the merits of the research.
Professional misconduct on the part of authors
The NJBMS expects all submissions to include data that are honestly and accurately reported according to the accepted best practices of scholarly publishing. In instances in which falsified or misreported data are suspected, the NJBMS pledges to carry out the process of detection, investigation, and penalty with fairness and confidentiality during the internal inquiry. The decision regarding investigation and penalty will be taken jointly by the president (SBMS), secretary (SBMS) and Editor in chief (NJBMS) and finding will be binding on the authors.
In the event that ethical misconduct is determined to have occurred in a manuscript already published in any journal, the NJBMS reserves the right to issue a public retraction of the said manuscript. The retraction will come in the form of a note published in a subsequent issue of the journal. The article’s citation will be labeled as “Retracted” in all databases and the electronic version of the manuscript file will be clearly marked as “Retracted.”
NJBMS discourages all form of plagiarism including self-plagiarism that is part/parts of the previously published articles by the same author should not be incorporated in the subsequent publications. Incase plagiarism is suspected or reported the further course of action will be taken as mentioned under the heading professional misconduct on the part of authors.
Resubmissions
Manuscripts that have been rejected are not eligible for further consideration by the same journal and thus should not be resubmitted.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
The goal of peer review is to assess the quality of articles submitted for publication in NJBMS. Before an article is deemed appropriate to be published, all articles undergo the peer review process. We aim to reach a decision on all manuscripts within four weeks of submission. If the editors think the material received lacks sufficient originality or there is absence of advancement of medical science or the research question is insignificant, the original research articles received are rejected after review in house, usually by two associate editors/ Editor In Chief.
Peer review procedure
The NJBMS team of research editors aims to read majority of newly submitted research articles within four working days. If the article is potentially suitable for NJBMS, editor will ask an associate editor to approve it and after that the article is sent to two external peer reviewers. We ask the reviewers to declare any conflict interests on all the manuscripts those are assigned to them.
After peer review, the next step is assessment at our weekly editorial manuscript committee meeting. An assistant editor reads out the article's importance, its merit and scientific quality in the light of peer review report and the editor- In – Chief aided by the editorial manuscript committee makes the final decision. In these meetings, originality of the articles and issues related to plagiarism are discussed in detail.
Decisions made at this meeting usually include one of these three: provisional acceptance, request revisions where peer reviewers’ and the editors’ views are put across , or rejection of the article.
Articles for the case reports or other sections of the NJBMS go through a similar process and those found satisfactory in external review go to an editorial manuscript committee meeting where the editors make the final decision.
Accepted articles are published on the official website of the journal njbms.com as they become ready, and the njbms.com is updated weekly. Once published online, articles are then go for a subsequent print issue.
The NJBMS provide open access to peer reviewed research as part of its commitment to members of Society for Basic Medical Sciences, readers and authors. We make all our research articles freely available online.