In 1978, editors of medical journal first met informally in Vancouver British Colombia with the intention, objective or goal of establishing guidelines for the format of manuscript submitted to their journals. With the passage of time or you may

It is not uncommon to see unnecessary precision in published articles from the Middle East. Sometimes the use of words is inappropriate, results reported are contradictory and p value reported is wrong. • Do not imply greater precision than

Duplicate and fragmented publications waste times and efforts of editorial boards and reviewers. They misguide the readers and complicate meta-analysis. Pet review and editing may result in different articles from submission. Annals of Saudi

Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has published guidelines on Good Publication Practice which are updated from time to time. COPE is an association of more than three hundred editors most of whom are European based. COPE members meet

Academic publishing is actually known as a scholarly attainment and provides a medium to make explicit, both credit and responsibility, for intellectual published articles. The benefits of collection of clinical information on patients from

As a peer one should also know their roles and responsibilities. The peers should know that the manuscripts they are reviewing are confidential documents which contain unpublished data and ideas; therefore they must be kept confidential. At this

The editors are looking for very specific in the reviewers or peers. These qualities include that the peer should have expertise on the subject, have clear objectivity and there should be no conflicts of interest. The peer should have clear and

In Pakistan there are very few experts in different fields of medicine and science and it has been observed that competent clinicians are not god reviewers and many good reviewers are not good clinicians or academicians. Very few know how to

Introduction: The peer review of a manuscript is a cornerstone of modern science and medicine. To maintain the standard of a journal, it is usually the collective effort of the investigators doing research and the peers who critically evaluate

Editors in provinces or different big cities like Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, etc. should meet regularly, both at social and academic gatherings. They should exchange copies of their journals and get feedback and review. They should also act as