Complaint Policy

  • If any reader, author or reviewer has any complaints against the journal, its staff, editorial board or publisher, it may be submitted to "mail to: abms@kmu.edu.pk" through an email with a subject mentioning COMPLAINT.
  • Complaints may also be submitted regarding issues related to inappropriate authorship, gift and ghost authorship; undeclared conflicts of interests, plagiarism, multiple, duplicate, concurrent publication/simultaneous submission, unethical research; fabrication/falsification of results, selective reporting; research standards violations, reviewer bias/competitive harmful acts by reviewers or any contribution to ABMS that infringes copyright or other intellectual property rights.
  • ABMS will investigate the complaint and after enquiry report, ABMS will establish a decision about the complaint, which will be communicated to all relevant quarters.
  • Although every effort is taken to improve the standard of ABMS and to make it free from errors, however, we accept that occasionally mistakes might happen. ABMS welcomes highlighting any error or mistake to be corrected.