About the Journal
Aims & Scope | Audience | Review Process | Editorial Team | About the Editors | Facts About the Journal | Abstracting and Indexing Information | Journal Ethics | Plagiarism Policy | Archival Policy | Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing | Ahead of Print Policy | Advertisements | Publisher
The Wadia Journal of Women and Child Health (WJWCH) is a Double blind peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of Gynaecology, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Allied science. The journal is owned by the Wadia Hospitals, India and published by the Scientific Scholar
Aims & Scope
This journal aims to promote knowledge, research, education and clinical practice of Mother and Child Health, especially as relevant to our country. It also aims at promoting knowledge, research and education among pediatricians, obstetricians and allied healthcare professionals related to this field. It offers a strong platform for researchers, students, nurses, to make their valuable contributions towards the journal.
Audience
Our audience includes researchers from the field of Gynaecology, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Allied science
Review Process
WJWCH has a highly rigorous Double blind peer-reviewed process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts, affiliations and financial associations such that the published content is not biased.
Editorial Team
The editorial board comprises a panel of experts from various disciplines of medical and allied sciences to provide their expertise and guidance in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the purpose for the journal.
About the Editor
Editor-in-ChiefDr. Sudha Rao
Professor of Pediatrics
Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children,
Nowrosjee Wadia Maternity Hospital
Acharya Donde Marg,
Parel, Mumbai-400012, India
E-mail: wjwch22@gmail.com , editor@wjwch.com
Facts About the Journal
Abstracting and Indexing Information
The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Google Scholar, ReadCube, CrossRef, PorticoJournal Ethics
The Wadia Journal of Women and Child Health is committed to meeting and upholding the standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines section
Plagiarism Policy
The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.Archival Policy
We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our articles are assigned a DOI number. We are members of https://crossref.org
Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing
Wadia Journal of Women And Child Health is an open-access journal, and manuscripts published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Ahead of Print Policy
Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. Wadia Journal of Women and Child Health has a policy that changes will not be made after the publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.
Advertisements
While advertisements are crucial to this journal to be able to keep all content free for everyone, ethical considerations are in place to ensure the integrity of the journal and its content are not biased or influenced by the advertisement.
“Pop-up” and “banner” advertisement appears at a fixed location on the page and does not interfere with the manuscript in any form.
The Editorial Board has full and final approval over the content of all advertisements.
Advertisers will never be shown any manuscripts or other content prior to publication.
Publisher
Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.
The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.