LOGIN ISSUES

What can I do if I forgot user name or password or both for my account?

Enter your account email address here and an email will be sent with instructions on how to reset your password.

 

PROCESSING TIME

I have submitted my manuscript in on [date]. The manuscript is still in submission stage. May I know why?

Submitted manuscript will be subjected to plagiarism check if it is within the scope of the PST journal. When the plagiarism is below 10%, it will be sent to a Section Editor (SE) for preliminary evaluation. An Editorial Assistant will be assigned for further processing, if the SE recommends the manuscript for peer review.

How long it needs after submission to get the artcle accepted?

Four to six months.

How long it needs after acceptance to get the artcle published?

Around one month.

 

USUAL MISTAKES NOTED IN THE SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS

See some of the common mistakes due to which submissions are rejected.

 

STATUS OF THE SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPT

How do you I know the status of the submitted manuscript?

You may login and check the status here. If you forgot your password, click here to reset the password. Otherwise, please write to your Editorial Assistant/Associate (EA) who is handling your manuscript from submission till publishing. Please check one of the initial emails received from the PST journal after your submission to know who is your EA. You may also contact the journal office to know the status at pstjournal@horizonepublishing.com

 

ACCEPTANCE

What next after acceptance?

The submitted revised manuscript will be sent for checking and correcting typos and formatting issues, if any. This will be followed by reference correction and language correction, if there are such mistakes remaining in the manuscript file. Only serious issues will be intimated to the authors and other minor corrections will be made by the publishing team. After these corrections, the manuscript will be sent for layout. PDF proof will be sent to authors and PST's proofreader. Corrections (if any) will be made in the article file and final PDF file be generated for publishing. 

 

PUBLISHING

Do you have an Early Access (EA) option to publish articles after acceptance?

Yes. See articles published under EA option. 

When volume, issue and page numbers will be given to articles published under the EA option?

Volume, issue and page numbers for articles published under the EA option will be given when they are added to an issue.

Two research papers published from your journal recently, possess similar volume number, issue number and page number. Why?

In each issue, we publish several articles. Volume and issue number will be the same in all these articles. Page number for all articles start from 1 and end according to the number of pages contained in the article. The unique number in all the articles will be the submission or article number which will be different in any two articles. The last 4 or more digits given in the DOI link represents the submission/article number.

 

MANAGE AUTHORS

How to add or remove one or more author in the submitted manuscript?

To add or remove one or more author, you need to send a mail to all authors including the author to add/remove with a copy to the journal office (pstjournal@horizonepublishing.com) and a copy to the Editorial Assistant/Associate handling your manuscript. All authors should agree to this request by replying to the email (use 'Reply All' option). 

I am Jacob with initial M. So if I need to be specified as Jacob et al, what should I do?

You need to mention M in the first text box (as Given Name) and Jacob in the second text box (as Family Name). 

 

ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES (APC)

Whom to contact for APC related queries?

Send Email to pstjournal@horizonepublishing.com

 

SCOPUS INDEXING

Why my article did not appear in Scopus database?

Send Email to Scopus

What can I expect after submitting a Missing Content or Data Correction request?

 

The Scopus website shows that Plant Science Today has been covered by Scopus from 2018 to 20xx Does this mean the journal will not be indexed by Scopus after 20xx?

Journal indexing is an ongoing process. Scopus started indexing Plant Science today journal in 2018 and is still continuing. At present, Scopus is indexing the articles published in the current year. Scopus indexing will continue next year when articles published during the next year are available to Scopus for indexing. If there are any changes to Scopus indexing, authors will be notified. 

 

GOOGLE SCHOLAR INDEXING

Why my article did not appear in Google Scholar?

We have noticed that rarely few articles are not included in Google Scholar.  Whatever be the reason, add your published article to your Google Scholar profile manually. In other words, via your profile go the (+) sign and then select add article manually.

 

PREPRINTS

Whether preprint can be submitted to PST journal for publication?

Yes. But once the article is published in the PST journal, either the article link from the PST site has to be added to the preprint article or the preprint article needs to be removed from the preprint site.