About the Journal

HELIX is a Peer-Reviewed Bimonthly International Journal. It is a platform encouraging Researchers, Practitioners, Academicians from Life Sciences, Engineering and Technology Management areas to share their innovative Research achievements and novel work to make quality information available for a broader public of readers and Internet users.

Scope of the Journal

Helix accepts high-quality research literature from Cutting edge Engineering and Technology Applications, Technology Management, Medicine, Biotechnology,  Engineering in Medicine and Biology,  Research and Development in Forensic Science, Humanatarian Technology

Frequently Asked Questions

Q) Is Helix an International Journal? Does it have an ISSN

Yes, It is an International Journal.  PISSN – 2277-3495, EISSN – 2319-5592

Q) What is Open Access Publication? Is Helix Open access?

Helix is an Open Access Journal. “By ‘open access’ to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Reproduction and distribution of any content can only be done after proper acknowledgment of the author and marking the citation of work. Helix follows The Budapest Open Access Initiative »

Helix articles are available to readers completely free of charge. Open access is made possible by a fee for publication that is paid after acceptance of article as Processing fees usually by the author’s institution or funding agencies or authors themselves. Upon publication articles become available online immediately and Published article can be downloaded, printed or read by any reader or visiter of archive section of website.

Q) How about Indexing of Helix?

Helix is indexed by 

Q) Do the Published article get unique Crossref Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Number?

A) Yes

Q) Is it a Peer-Reviewed Journal?

A) Yes. Papers are reviewed on the basis that they do not contain plagiarized material and have not been submitted to any other conference/journal at the same time (double submission). Helix adopts the double-blind review process of the submitted papers.

Length of the review process varies between papers, and many factors affect the time it takes to review a paper. The time it takes for an associate editor to be assigned, and for available, qualified reviewers to be located depends on the complexity and the type of material submitted for review. Each publication makes a concerted effort to keep the review time to a minimum that is consistent with keeping the publication’s reputation for quality and integrity. Each submission placed into the review is sent to at least two reviewers. You must indicate the reason for requesting or excluding reviewers during the submission process if any.

Q) How do you deal with Plagiarism, Is there any Policy for publication ethics and malpractice?

A) All the papers submitted to us for consideration will go through a Plagiarism Detection software before technical review. Using the ideas and work of others without giving them credit is unfair, unethical and dishonest. Using or Copying even one sentence from someone else’s Research work or Paper, or even one of your own papers that have previously been published, without marking proper citation is considered plagiarism and will violate copyright policies. Our Journal is very strict about plagiarism of any kind and we discourage it in all forms

Plagiarism Action Taken
Minor

 

Short sections of another article are plagiarized without any significant data or idea taken from the other paper

 A warning is given to the authors and a request to change the text and properly cite the original article is made.

 

 
Intermediate

 

A significant portion of a paper is plagiarized (including plagiarism of one’s own previously published work) without proper citation to the original paper.

 The submitted article is rejected and a resubmission is not permitted.
Severe

 

A significant portion of a paper (>35%) is plagiarized that involves reproducing original results or ideas presented in another publication. Multiple (repeated) instances of plagiarism at the intermediate level may also constitute a severe infraction.

 The paper is rejected and the authors are forbidden to submit further articles to the journal of a period of two years.

Q) Does your journal allow reuse and remixing of content in accordance with a Creative Commons license? Please offer details on your copyright terms?

Articles published in Helix are open-access, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and not used for commercial purposes. For details, see Creative Commons Legal Code Attribute-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC- SA 4.0).

In general terms, articles may be reproduced without specific permission from this journal in the following cases: a) single copies for the purposes of private study or research only; b) multiple copies for the use in a non-profit teaching situation.

When in doubt concerning copyright questions, please contact the Editorial Office

Appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article.

Example -Last, F. M., & Last, F. M. (Year Published). Article title. Journal Name, Volume(Issue), pp. Pages. doi: xx.xxxx/X000X0XXXXX000XXX