KARACHI: Prof. Adeela Shahid Prof. of Physiology and Editor of Journal of Shalamar Medical & Dental College visited the offices of Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences on July 16th 2025 during her recent visit to Karachi.
Prof. Adeela Shahid Editor Shalamar Medical & Dental Journal
visiting the offices of Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences.
She was introduced to the working of Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences. She was briefed about the pre-submission review, initial screening and Editor’s Triage, plagiarism check, formatting of manuscripts, external review process, post acceptance editing, generation of DOI, page make up and preparation of PDF files, corrections, and final publications. How the PDF and Words files are sent overseas for generating XML files for submission to PubMed Central by the Chief Editor of Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences Mr. Shaukat Ali Jawaid and the other support staff.
Different support staff has different allocated functions which are all coordinated by the Publication Secretary. How to check the credibility of suggested reviewers and how to use them, what weightage is given to the reviewers were also discussed in detail. She was delighted to personally observe and see all these functions which she felt will be helpful in planning and streamlining of the working of their journal.
