About the Journal

All papers, solicited and unsolicited, will be first assessed by the Editor in Chief or one of the Editors (preliminary review). Plagiarism will be checked at this stage. The submissions and references will be checked for journal's style.  Papers found unsuitable in terms of the overall requirements of the journal will be returned. If suitable, the manuscripts will be sent to Reviewers for detailed review. We carry out single-blind peer review process. Authors of these papers will be notified of acceptance, need for revision or rejection of the paper. If the Editor or Reviewer recommends resubmission after detailed revision, the same will be communicated to the authors. 

Review details: The PST reviews all the material it receives. We aim to reach a first decision on all manuscripts within two or three weeks of submission.

We may screen a research article initially by reading only the abstract, so abstracts should be as complete, accurate, and clear as possible. If the work does not seem to fit in the PST, it will be rejected.

The PST's team of research editors aims to read all of newly submitted research articles normally within two working days. If the article is potentially suitable for the PST that editor will send the article to three external peer reviewers.

We aim to reach a final decision on publication within four to six weeks of submission for all articles. If we make an offer of publication subject to revision we usually ask authors to return their articles to us within two weeks.

Accepted articles are published at http://horizonepublishing.com/journals/index.php/PST/ as they become ready.

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Publication Frequency

The PST Journal will publish one volume each year. There will be four issues per volume, publishing on 1st of January, April, July and October. After the publication of an issue, all the new articles will be first added to the "Early Access" issue and thereafter to the next issue at the time of publication.

ISSN, DOI AND CODEN

ISSN number: 2348 – 1900

DOI prefix: 10.14719/pst

CODEN: PSTLEH

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Editorial Team

Our Editorial Team comprises of honorary positions such as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Editorial Board members, Managing Editor, Editorail Assistants, and Layout Assistant who manage the submissions received and help till publishing. The term of appointment is 2 years. 

Selection criteria: Journal will invite applications for Editorial Board members once in 2 years. The member selection criteria include expertise in the field of interest,  ResearchGate's RG Score, Google Scholar's H-index, etc and previous experience, if any. Those who serve as Reviewers of PST and perform well (quick and detailed reviewing) may get a preference during the selection process. Journal ensures geographical balance while selecting members to the editorial team. 

Editor in Chief take care of the article review activities such as identifying suitable reviewers in association with Editors, coordinate revision of the articles, and takes the final decision on the acceptance of the manuscripts in line with the review outcome of the submissions. Responsibilities of the Editor in Chief are assisted by two editorial assistants and a personal assistant.

Overall journal management, site maintenance, layout and proofread activities, etc are coordinated by the Managing Editor.

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Revenue sources

The journal collects revenue from Article Processing Charges (APC) to partially meet the journal publishing costs. The Publisher invests revenue from other sister websites to meet the revenue gap.