Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research

Editorial & Publication Policies

All policies governing submission, peer review, publishing ethics, author rights, and journal governance. Published by Link Medical Interface (Private) Limited, Lahore, Pakistan.

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The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) is committed to immediate, free, and unrestricted access to scholarly research. All articles published in JHRR are made available online immediately upon publication with no embargo period. The journal's open access approach is intended to support timely dissemination of evidence, strengthen transparency and reproducibility, and maximize the reach and impact of research across health and rehabilitation sciences.

JHRR adopts an open access model aligned with internationally recognized open access principles. Users may access and use journal content for any lawful purpose, including reading, downloading, copying, distributing, printing, searching within the text, and linking to the full text of articles, without financial, legal, or technical barriers and without requesting prior permission from the publisher or authors, provided that appropriate attribution to the original work is maintained.

Licensing

All articles published in JHRR are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license allows others to share the work in any medium or format and to adapt, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use, provided that proper credit is given to the authors and the journal source, a link to the license is included, and any changes made are indicated.

Access and Charges

Readers have complete and free access to all JHRR content. No registration is required to view published articles, and article downloads are available without charge. The journal does not levy subscription fees on readers or institutions. JHRR operates on an open access publishing model supported through an Article Processing Charge (APC) that is applied only after acceptance. The APC is PKR 25,000 and becomes payable once a manuscript has successfully completed editorial and peer review processes and a formal acceptance decision has been issued.

Copyright

Authors retain full copyright over their published work in JHRR. By publishing in the journal, authors grant JHRR a non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, and disseminate the article online and through indexing and archiving systems under the CC BY 4.0 license terms, while the authors retain the freedom to reuse and share their work in accordance with the same license conditions.

Archiving and Availability

JHRR is committed to ensuring permanent access to all published content. Long-term digital preservation is ensured through the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), which supports ongoing availability of published articles over time.

Compliance with Funders

This open access policy is intended to remain compatible with common funder and institutional open access requirements. Where specific funder-mandated conditions apply, authors are encouraged to review the journal's licensing and archiving provisions to ensure that deposit, reuse, and attribution requirements are satisfied under the CC BY 4.0 framework.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) publishes all articles under the Attribution 4.0 Creative Commons International License (CC BY 4.0) as its default publishing license. This licensing approach is intended to maximize lawful reuse, dissemination, and scholarly impact while ensuring that authors receive appropriate credit for their work and that the integrity of the scholarly record is maintained.

Permitted Uses Under CC BY 4.0

Under the CC BY 4.0 license, readers and users may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and may remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial use. These uses do not require prior permission from the publisher or the author(s), provided that appropriate attribution is given to the author(s) and the original source, a link to the license is included, and any changes made are clearly indicated.

Author Rights

Authors retain full copyright of their work published in JHRR. By submitting a manuscript and proceeding to publication, authors grant JHRR a non-exclusive license to publish and disseminate the article under CC BY 4.0. This arrangement ensures that authors remain free to reuse, share, and distribute their work broadly while allowing the journal to publish, archive, and index the Version of Record. Authors may deposit the submitted version (pre-print), the accepted version (post-print), and the published Version of Record in repositories, personal websites, and institutional platforms in accordance with the journal's Self-Archiving provisions.

License Display and Article-Level Licensing

For transparency, discoverability, and consistent indexing, JHRR ensures that the CC BY 4.0 license is clearly displayed at the article level. The license statement and link are presented on each article landing page and, where applicable, within the full-text formats provided by the journal, including PDF and HTML versions.

Third-Party Content

Authors are responsible for ensuring that they have appropriate permission to reuse, reproduce, or adapt any third-party content included in their manuscript, including figures, tables, images, instruments, extensive quotations, or other copyrighted materials. If third-party content is not covered by CC BY 4.0, this must be made clear to readers to prevent unintended reuse beyond the permissions granted.

Funder Compliance

The CC BY 4.0 license is widely recognized as compatible with common open access requirements and supports compliance with a broad range of funder and institutional policies that require immediate open access and flexible reuse rights.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) respects and protects authors' intellectual property rights and recognizes that authors should retain ownership of their scholarly work. Accordingly, all authors publishing in JHRR retain full ownership of their articles, while the journal applies publishing and dissemination rights only to the extent required to publish, preserve, and index the scholarly record.

Author Copyright Ownership

Authors retain 100% copyright of their articles published in JHRR. Upon acceptance and publication, authors grant the journal a non-exclusive right to publish, archive, reproduce, and disseminate the work in all formats used by the journal and through lawful indexing, aggregation, and preservation services. JHRR does not require authors to transfer copyright as a condition of publication.

License for Publication

All articles in JHRR are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Under this licence, others may share, copy, redistribute, adapt, and build upon the work for any purpose, including commercial use, provided that proper attribution to the author(s) and citation to the original publication in JHRR are maintained, a link to the license is provided, and any changes are indicated.

Author Rights After Publication

After publication, authors may share and reuse their work without requesting additional permission from the journal, provided that the original publication in JHRR is properly cited and the CC BY 4.0 terms are respected. Authors may deposit all versions in institutional repositories, subject repositories, and personal or departmental websites, and may incorporate their article into books, theses, dissertations, and teaching or training materials.

Third-Party Copyright

Authors are responsible for obtaining appropriate written permission for any copyrighted third-party material included in a submission. If third-party material is not covered by CC BY 4.0, this must be explicitly indicated to prevent unintended reuse beyond the granted permissions.

Publisher Responsibilities

JHRR, as published by Link Medical Interface (Private) Limited, is responsible for maintaining the integrity and availability of the scholarly record. The journal ensures long-term preservation of published content through its preservation arrangements, maintains accurate attribution to authors, and does not alter an author's content after publication except through clearly documented correction mechanisms and standard publishing practices.

Protection Against Misuse

JHRR takes appropriate action in cases of plagiarism, unauthorized republication, systematic scraping, impersonation, or other forms of misuse that compromise authors' rights or the integrity of the journal. Where credible concerns are identified, the journal may issue formal notices, request removal from infringing platforms, and notify relevant hosting services or indexing providers as appropriate.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) applies a rigorous peer review process to safeguard scientific integrity, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, and editorial objectivity. JHRR uses a double-blind peer review model in which author and reviewer identities are not disclosed to each other during the review process.

Reviewer Responsibilities

Reviewers are expected to provide objective, constructive, and timely evaluations grounded in scholarly standards. They must treat manuscripts as confidential documents, avoid any use of manuscript content for personal advantage, and disclose conflicts of interest promptly. Reviewers must not upload any part of a manuscript into generative AI tools or third-party automated systems.

Plagiarism and Ethical Screening

All submissions are subject to similarity screening. As a general operational threshold, manuscripts with similarity above 15% (less than 5% from a single source) that includes unacceptable overlap may be declined.

Special Issues and Guest Editors

For special issues and guest-edited content, JHRR applies the same peer review standards, anonymity safeguards, and editorial oversight as for regular monthly issues. Guest editor submissions are handled through an independent pathway to avoid conflicts of interest.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) is committed to maintaining the highest standards of ethical scholarly publishing and to protecting the integrity of the scientific record. JHRR applies established international best practices for editorial governance, peer review, authorship accountability, research integrity, and post-publication stewardship.

Duties of Authors

1.1 Originality & Plagiarism: Authors must ensure all submitted work is original and any material derived from other sources is appropriately cited. Redundant publication, self-plagiarism, and unattributed copying are prohibited.

1.2 Data Accuracy & Integrity: Fabrication, falsification, selective reporting, and inappropriate manipulation of images or data are unacceptable. Methods must be described with sufficient clarity for replication.

1.3 Multiple or Duplicate Submission: Authors must not submit the same manuscript to more than one journal simultaneously. "Salami slicing" is prohibited.

1.4 Authorship Criteria: All listed authors must have made a substantial intellectual contribution. Gift, guest, and ghost authorship are not permitted.

1.5 Conflicts of Interest: All relationships that could influence the work must be disclosed, including financial interests, employment, patents, and personal relationships.

1.6 Ethical Approval and Participant Protection: Studies involving humans or animals must confirm compliance with applicable ethical standards, IRB/REC approval, and informed consent requirements.

1.7 Corrections, Retractions, and Cooperation: Authors must notify the journal of material errors and cooperate fully with editorial investigations.

1.8 Use of Generative AI: AI tools cannot be listed as authors. All AI-assisted content remains the full responsibility of the human authors.

Duties of Reviewers

Reviewers must maintain confidentiality, provide objective assessments, disclose conflicts of interest, submit reviews on time, and never upload manuscript content to AI tools or third-party systems.

Duties of Editors

Editors make publication decisions based on scientific merit only, manage peer review objectively, protect confidentiality, handle misconduct allegations in an evidence-based manner, and issue corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions as warranted.

Duties of the Publisher

Link Medical Interface (Private) Limited supports editorial independence and the integrity of the scholarly record. The publisher does not interfere in editorial decisions regarding acceptance, rejection, or retraction, except to ensure that due process and policy consistency are maintained.

Retraction & Withdrawal Policy

An article may be retracted when there is clear evidence that findings are unreliable due to fabrication, falsification, major error, unethical research conduct, plagiarism, duplicate publication, or proven authorship misconduct. Retracted articles remain accessible but are clearly labeled as retracted. Withdrawal requests are generally considered only prior to acceptance and must be justified in writing.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) is committed to ensuring permanent, secure, and reliable preservation of all published content. The journal's digital preservation strategy is designed to protect the scholarly record and to maintain long-term accessibility of articles even in circumstances such as technical disruption, cyber incidents, platform migration, or journal closure.

PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN)

JHRR participates in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) as its primary long-term digital preservation mechanism. Through PKP PN, published content is preserved using an automated and distributed preservation approach designed for Open Journal Systems (OJS) journals, supporting redundancy across geographically distributed preservation nodes and reducing the risk of single-point failure.

Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)

The JHRR website and its publicly available article pages may be periodically captured by the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) as an additional layer of public redundancy, providing supplementary access pathways for readers.

Local Server Backups

JHRR maintains routine backup procedures including incremental backups, periodic full backups, secure storage practices, and recovery protocols to protect against accidental data loss, corruption, or infrastructure disruption.

Metadata Preservation

JHRR preserves published articles together with structured metadata including DOI registration data, ORCID information, and standardized metadata formats (OAI-PMH and widely adopted bibliographic schemas) to ensure that article-level records remain findable and citable over time.

Article Permanence

Once an article is published in JHRR, it forms part of the permanent scholarly record and is intended to remain accessible indefinitely. Published content is not removed or replaced, except through formal post-publication actions that preserve transparency and traceability.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) permits and encourages authors to self-archive their manuscripts to support wider dissemination, earlier visibility, and long-term preservation of scholarly work. JHRR imposes no embargo period for self-archiving of any version.

Versions Authors May Deposit

Preprint: May be deposited immediately upon submission on any preprint server or repository. Authors should clearly label it as not yet peer reviewed.

Accepted Manuscript (Post-print): May be deposited immediately upon acceptance in university repositories, national archives, disciplinary repositories, and personal websites. A note directing readers to the Version of Record should be included.

Version of Record (Published PDF): May be deposited immediately upon publication in any repository, including institutional and funding agency archives. The journal's copyright and licensing notice must be retained.

Mandatory Citation of Published Article

Authors must include a complete citation to the published JHRR article in all self-archived versions, including article title, full author list, journal name (JHRR), year, volume/issue, DOI (if assigned), publisher name, and CC BY 4.0 license link.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) is committed to transparent, ethical, and fully disclosed publishing practices. No fees are requested or accepted at submission, and the journal does not impose charges that could be perceived as purchasing editorial outcomes.

What the Publication Fee Covers

The publication fee supports editorial and administrative processing after acceptance, professional copyediting and language polishing, typesetting and formatting, online hosting and platform maintenance, metadata management for indexing and discoverability, and long-term digital preservation arrangements. No additional mandatory charges are applied.

No Hidden or Additional Charges

JHRR does not charge submission fees, peer review fees, page charges, color figure charges, excess length charges, supplementary file charges, or editorial handling fees. There are no fast-track or priority review fees.

Waiver Policy (Case-by-Case)

JHRR may grant partial or full waivers for authors with genuine financial hardship, early-career researchers or PhD scholars without funding support, or authors based in resource-constrained settings. Waiver requests should be submitted after acceptance and before payment, accompanied by a clear justification. Waiver decisions are final and do not influence editorial outcomes.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) is owned, managed, and published by Link Medical Interface (Private) Limited, Pakistan.

Editorial Independence

JHRR maintains strict editorial independence as a foundational governance principle. Editorial decisions are made solely on the basis of scientific merit, ethical compliance, relevance to the journal's scope, and the quality and clarity of reporting. The publisher does not interfere with editorial decision-making and does not influence the acceptance, rejection, or retraction of manuscripts.

Separation of Roles

Editors retain full authority over acceptance and rejection decisions, while the publisher provides administrative, technical, and financial support necessary for journal operations. Publication fee payments are handled administratively after acceptance and are not used as an input to editorial evaluation.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) maintains strict ethical standards for advertising and sponsorship to protect editorial independence, reader trust, and the integrity of the scholarly record. JHRR treats advertising as a limited, controlled activity that must not compromise the journal's scientific mission.

No Influence on Editorial Decisions

Advertising and sponsorship do not influence the editorial process in any form. Acceptance or rejection of manuscripts is not affected by whether an author, institution, advertiser, or sponsor has any commercial relationship with the journal or its publisher.

Prohibited Advertising

JHRR does not accept advertising for tobacco products, alcohol promotion, illicit or unsafe drugs, political or religious campaigning, misleading or non-evidence-based health claims, unverified medical treatments, products or services that violate applicable Pakistani law, or questionable and predatory publishing or conference activity.

Editorial & Advertising Separation

Advertising decisions and administrative handling are managed independently of the editorial team. Advertising is not placed within the body of scholarly articles so that commercial content does not appear to be endorsed by authors or by the journal.

Complaints About Advertisements

Concerns or complaints about advertising content may be submitted to the journal at editor@jhrlmc.com.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) is committed to maintaining high ethical standards and a fair, transparent, and accountable editorial process. Complaints and appeals should be submitted in writing to editor@jhrlmc.com. JHRR acknowledges receipt within approximately three working days and aims to provide a full response within two to four weeks.

Types of Complaints Accepted

JHRR accepts complaints relating to editorial decisions (inadequate rationale, unreasonable delays), peer review conduct (bias, unprofessional language, undeclared conflicts), publication ethics (plagiarism, data fabrication, authorship disputes), and journal management issues (billing disputes, technical errors, access problems).

Appeals Against Editorial Decisions

Authors may appeal editorial decisions when there is credible indication of procedural irregularity, demonstrable misunderstanding of key scientific or methodological elements, significant new information, or concerns about fairness or bias. Appeals are reviewed by a senior editor who was not involved in the original decision.

Complaints Handling Process

All complaints undergo initial screening, followed by a proportionate investigation, then a written decision with reasons. Individuals named in a complaint are excluded from decision-making and access to adjudication materials. Where a complaint is upheld, corrective and preventive actions are implemented as appropriate.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) supports responsible research transparency and encourages authors to make research data accessible, reusable, and verifiable where this is appropriate, lawful, and ethically permissible. A Data Availability Statement (DAS) is required for all research articles.

Data Availability Statement (DAS) — Required Wording Examples

Acceptable Repositories

Authors may deposit data in Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, the Open Science Framework (OSF), institutional repositories, national digital archives, and domain-specific repositories relevant to clinical trials, physiological data, functional outcomes, or other structured biomedical datasets.

Confidentiality & Ethical Considerations

For studies involving human participants, data must be de-identified and shared only with appropriate safeguards. Authors must ensure data sharing aligns with informed consent requirements, ethics committee approvals, and applicable data protection principles and local regulations.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) requires full disclosure of any actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest from authors, reviewers, editors, and editorial staff. Conflicts of interest are common in modern research environments and are not inherently unethical; however, failure to disclose relevant relationships can undermine trust and compromise the credibility of decision-making.

Categories of COI

Financial: Research funding from commercial entities, consulting fees, honoraria, stock ownership, patents, royalties, paid advisory roles, or any financial relationship affected by the publication's findings.

Non-Financial: Close personal relationships, family connections, academic rivalry, professional competition, strongly held intellectual positions, political or ideological commitments, or stakeholder group affiliations.

Institutional: Employment at, supervision by, or close links to organizations with an interest in the manuscript's outcomes.

No Conflict Statement

If no conflicts exist, authors must explicitly state: "The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

Reviewer COI

Reviewers must generally decline when they have collaborated with an author within the last three years or have any other relationship that would reasonably call impartiality into question.

Handling Undisclosed COI

If an undisclosed COI is discovered, JHRR may request updated disclosure, reject the manuscript, publish a correction, issue an expression of concern, or retract the article. The journal may also notify the author's institution or apply proportionate submission restrictions.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) is committed to protecting the privacy and personal data of authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. JHRR collects and processes personal information only to the extent necessary to operate a scholarly publishing workflow and applies widely recognized data protection principles including purpose limitation, data minimization, confidentiality, transparency, and reasonable security safeguards.

Information We Collect

Author information (names, emails, affiliations, ORCID iD, manuscript files, funding and COI declarations), reviewer information (names, emails, expertise, review activity), and limited non-identifiable reader and website usage data (aggregated analytics, download statistics, cookies for website functionality).

How We Use Personal Data

Personal data is used strictly for scholarly publishing purposes: manuscript management, peer review administration, indexing, archiving, ethics inquiries, and post-publication updates. JHRR does not sell personal data or use it for unrelated marketing or commercial profiling.

Right to Access, Correct, or Delete Personal Data

Individuals may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal data by writing to editor@jhrlmc.com. Published content and core publication metadata form part of the permanent scholarly record and cannot generally be deleted.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) is committed to maintaining editorial objectivity and diversity of authorship. JHRR enforces an endogeny limit: no more than 5% of articles published in any given volume year may be authored or co-authored by members of the journal's editorial team (Editor-in-Chief, associate editors, section editors, editorial board members, advisory board members, guest editors, and regular reviewers).

Mandatory Recusal

When an editorial team member submits a manuscript to JHRR, mandatory recusal applies immediately and comprehensively. The submitting editor must not handle their own manuscript in any capacity, and must not access reviewer identities, confidential reviewer comments, internal editorial notes, or any non-public system records relating to the manuscript.

Independent Handling

Manuscripts submitted by editorial team members are assigned to an independent handling editor. If a suitable internal editor cannot be assigned without conflicts, JHRR may appoint an external guest handling editor.

No Quid Pro Quo

JHRR strictly prohibits reciprocal reviewing arrangements, peer review rings, trading of authorship or citations, and any behavior intended to manipulate editorial outcomes. Concerns may be reported to editor@jhrlmc.com.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) is committed to maintaining neutrality on jurisdictional and geopolitical matters. JHRR's role is to evaluate and disseminate scholarly work based on scientific merit and ethical integrity, not to endorse or oppose political positions, territorial claims, sovereignty disputes, or the legal status of any country, region, or territory.

Neutral Stance on Disputed Territories

JHRR does not take a position on territorial boundaries, sovereignty disputes, or contested jurisdictional status. Where manuscripts include geographic references, maps, or boundary depictions, such material is published for scholarly and informational purposes only.

Author Responsibility

Authors are responsible for ensuring that geographic terminology, institutional naming, and location references used in their manuscripts are accurate, respectful, and appropriate to the scholarly context. Where a geographic designation may be ambiguous or contested, authors may include a neutral explanatory footnote.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) supports the right of authors to update their name and/or pronouns on previously published articles. JHRR will honor such requests without requiring disclosure of the reason for the change and without requiring supporting documentation. Name and pronoun updates are implemented without issuing a public correction notice or editorial statement, unless the author explicitly requests otherwise. The DOI will remain unchanged.

How to Submit a Request

Authors should contact editor@jhrlmc.com with their previously published name, the updated name and/or pronouns, an email address for follow-up, and the DOI(s) or precise citation details of the affected article(s).

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) recognizes that generative AI and AI-assisted technologies are increasingly used in scholarly workflows. This policy defines permitted and prohibited uses of such tools across manuscript preparation, submission, peer review, and editorial processing.

Authors — Permitted Use

Authors may use AI-assisted tools for grammar correction, spelling correction, readability enhancement, and translation support, provided that scientific meaning is not altered and the final text is reviewed and approved by the authors.

Authors — Prohibited Uses

Generative AI must not be used to fabricate or falsify data, results, or analyses; generate inaccurate or unverifiable citations; produce misleading scientific content; or create AI-manipulated images, graphs, or figures without transparent disclosure. AI tools cannot be listed as authors.

Mandatory Disclosure

Any use of AI tools beyond straightforward language correction must be disclosed in a dedicated manuscript section titled: "Declaration of Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies in the Writing Process."

Peer Reviewers and Editors

Reviewers and editors must not upload, paste, summarize, or disclose any manuscript content into generative AI tools or third-party systems that may store, learn from, or redistribute confidential material. Human editorial judgment must not be replaced by AI systems.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) accepts scholarly commentaries, critiques, and author responses that provide informed perspectives, constructive challenges, or clarifications relating to previously published work. All such submissions must be evidence-based, focused on scientific discourse, and respectful in tone.

Scope and Eligibility

JHRR considers commentaries and critiques addressing articles published in JHRR and may consider critiques of work published elsewhere where the topic is directly relevant to JHRR's scope and readership. Rejoinders by commentators responding to author replies may be permitted when further scholarly clarification is justified.

Submission Requirements

JHRR may apply word limits in the range of approximately 1,000 to 2,000 words, with up to around 10 references and a small number of tables or figures when necessary for clarity. Submissions must clearly identify the article being discussed. A cover letter disclosing conflicts of interest and confirming ethical compliance is required.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) applies recognized ethical publishing standards to prevent redundant or duplicate publication. Authors must disclose relevant prior dissemination at the time of submission so that editors can assess originality, novelty, and eligibility for peer review. If a substantial portion of the manuscript has already been formally published elsewhere as a peer-reviewed journal article, it is generally not eligible for publication in JHRR.

Acceptable Forms of Prior Distribution

Preprints and Working Papers: Acceptable with disclosure and link or identifier at submission.

Theses and Dissertations: Manuscripts derived from theses may be considered when appropriately revised for journal publication and with thesis source disclosed.

Conference Presentations: Acceptable when the conference output was not published in full as a peer-reviewed article and the manuscript is substantially developed beyond the presented material.

Clinical Trial Registries and Raw Data: Acceptable when permissions and ethical requirements are met and prior publications using the same dataset are disclosed.

Questions may be directed to editor@jhrlmc.com before submission.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) recognizes that, in exceptional circumstances, authors may have legitimate reasons to request publication without public disclosure of their identity. JHRR considers such requests only when necessary to protect individuals facing credible personal safety risks, serious privacy concerns, or other sensitive circumstances that could reasonably lead to harm if authorship were disclosed.

Making a Request

Authors seeking anonymous publication must submit a formal written request to editor@jhrlmc.com, clearly stating the reason and providing sufficient context for the journal to assess legitimacy and proportionality.

Important Considerations

Anonymity must not compromise academic integrity, accountability for the work, compliance with ethical approvals, or legal obligations. The journal must be able to verify authorship identity internally even when public disclosure is limited. Anonymous authorship may be incompatible with certain indexing, institutional reporting, or funder requirements.

The Journal of Health and Rehabilitation Research (JHRR) strictly prohibits simultaneous or duplicate submissions. By submitting to JHRR, authors confirm that the manuscript is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, in whole or in part, and has not been submitted concurrently to another journal, conference proceedings venue that conducts journal-style review, or any other formal publication outlet that would create duplication in editorial evaluation.

Investigation and Action

If simultaneous submission is confirmed, the manuscript will be rejected without further review. Where violations are serious, intentional, or repeated, JHRR may impose temporary restrictions on future submissions and may notify relevant institutions or oversight bodies.

Author Responsibility

Authors must proactively disclose any related submissions, overlapping manuscripts, and closely linked outputs that may be under consideration elsewhere. Failure to disclose may trigger an ethics review and may lead to rejection or other corrective action.

Questions may be directed to the editorial office at editor@jhrlmc.com.

All articles published in JHRR are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain full copyright of their published work.