COVID-19

We are conscious of the challenges that many of you face during this crisis. We will remain supportive and flexible, which may affect individual paper processing times (more below). We are also carefully monitoring the health and well-being of our staff, managing and coordinating workloads, and supporting each other with flexibility. While the situation is far from normal in both of our primary locations India, at this point we do not anticipate issues preventing the efficient publishing of our seven journals. We are facilitating the prompt evaluation of any papers related to the coronavirus and resulting pandemic, and all other papers are also being handled as per our standard processes.

Reassurance for Our Research Communities

We understand that the global research community is significantly but also variably affected by this pandemic, and so we want to provide the following clarifications and reassurance:

To Authors

• We are flexible regarding turnaround times for revisions and other tasks during this stressful time. Please keep in touch with us if you need any extensions or if you experience any challenges around manuscript preparation; we will work with you.
• We are fast-tracking all relevant research related to the coronavirus and resulting pandemic, and are processing all other submissions as normal.
• We are forwarding all submissions and papers related to the outbreak to the World Health Organization for their database of publications on coronavirus.
• We encourage all researchers to also consider posting a Preprint.
• Please remember that – across all our journals – we protect primary research studies from being considered “scooped” by closely related, parallel studies recently published in other journals. So, there is no need to rush your research, or revisions, for the sake of being selected for novelty!