About the Journal

Al Mustansiriyah Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (AJPS)

Al Mustansiriyah Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (AJPS) is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by the College of Pharmacy, Mustansiriyah University, under the regulations and standards of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Iraq. AJPS aims at disseminating leading-edge knowledge and expertise in Pharmacy topics for researchers, academic scientists, and postgraduate students. The vision for the future is to make the journal abstracted and indexed by prominent databases and internationally cited, read, and downloaded by scholars. The first issue of the journal was published in 2004, and today AJPS is published quarterly.
Crossref Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Crossref makes research objects easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.
DOI is guaranteed by no means to change, so it can be used as a permanent link to any electronic article. The journal DOI prefix account is10.32947. It is necessary to mention that AJPS accepts the result of turnitin plagiarism checker score that is equal to and less than 20% (excluding references, and common phrases).
Having too high turnitin similarity score can cause a rejection of the paper.

AJPS is the official journal of College of Pharmacy / Mustansiriyah University, publishing high quality submissions which encompass the various disciplines of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences.

Publishing Frequency
Quarterly (from 2019)

Use of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
A DOI is guaranteed by no means to change, so it can be used as a permanent link to any electronic article. The journal DOI prefix account is 10.32947.

Plagiarism Policy

All manuscripts under review or published with AJPS are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software Turnitin. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. Other violations include duplicate publication, data fabrication and falsification, and improper credit of author contribution. Thus, Plagiarism or Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior are unacceptable, and submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. It is necessary to mention that AJPS may ignore a duplicated manuscript of up to 20%.
All new submissions to AJPS are screened using https://www.turnitin.com/. Editorial board members may also choose to run a similarity report at any other point during the review process or post-publication. The default similarity report view gives the percentage of the text of the manuscript which has overlap with one or more published articles. Figures and equations cannot be checked at present. Note that a high similarity score does not necessarily indicate plagiarized text. A similarity score of 30% could mean 30% text in common with one source but could equally mean 1% text in common with 30 different sources. Re-used text that has been legitimately cited in the Bibliography may all contribute to the similarity score. It is necessary to mention that AJPS may ignore a duplicated manuscript of up to 20% similarity ratio including the AI usage. It is the responsibility of author(s) to enssure that the similarity index is within the 20% limit till the publication of the article. In the meantime, the AI index must be less than 5%. The subject knowledge of an editorial expert is vital in order to interpret the CrossCheck report and determine whether there are any grounds for concern.

- Publisher: College of Pharmacy / Mustansiriyah University
- Institution: College of Pharmacy
-Address: Iraq - Baghdad / Al-Qadisyah Street (View in Map)
Mustansiriyah University, College of Pharmacy
-Digital Object Identifier (DOI) - 10.32947
-The international Standard Serial Number:
ISSN: 1815-0993
EISSN: 2959-183X