Admissions 2026-27

PUBLICATION OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

The role of Publication Oversight Committee (POC) of KSR Institute of Dental Science and Research is to improve the quality of manuscripts, following the guidelines laid out by the Committee of Publication Ethics (COPE). The committee enables the authors to publish their manuscripts whilst ensuring the maintenance of ethical standards, protection of patient privacy and fair distribution of authorship.

Authors are accountable for anything they publish.

 

POC Committee members

Publication Oversight Committee

Name and Designation
Role
Dr.Anand, Senior Lecturer
Chairperson
Dr.Rehna Parvin, Reader
Member
Dr.Angelie Jessica, Reader and Head
Member
Dr.S.R.Bharathi, Reader
Member
Dr.Yazhini S, Senior Lecturer
Member
Dr.P.R.GeethaPriya, Director (Research), Professor and Head
Member

GENERAL GUIDELINES

  • All manuscripts originating from KSRIDSR should obtain approval from the Publication Oversight Committee (POC) before submission to a journal.
  • External or collaborative research including PhD research works done elsewhere should also go through the POC of KSRIDSR.
  • Research proposals (ICMR/Other grants), IPR documents and Student/ Faculty Essays for competitions should get POC clearance before the official submission.
  • Authors should be cautious about predatory journals while choosing a journal for publishing their research work. Confirm the authenticity of the desired journal using the ISSN portal or contact POC for assistance.
  • Authors are encouraged to prioritize journals indexed in Scopus/Web of Science with Q1/Q2/Q3 Quartile ranking.
  • All communications with the POC should be through the department’s official mail ID. Corrections and revised documents must be submitted as a reply to the email received from the POC.
  • IPR documents should be sent to the POC through the official IPR mail ID of KSRIDSR.
  • Authors should submit all the following documents to poc@ksridsr.edu.in for the committees’ perusal.
    • 1. Title page file
      • All authors should structure their title page using the template provided below and adhere to the following guidelines.
      • Title page or the first page file should contain all authors details in order, along with their official e-mail address and affiliations.
      • Role of each author should be clearly stated.
      • PhD scholars are allowed for 2 affiliations and should ensure KSRIDSR as their FIRST affiliation.
      • Affiliations should mention college name as follows
        KSR Institute of Dental Science and Research, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India.
      • All authors affiliated to KSRIDSR must use their official email address only.
      • Guest authorship (who did not contribute in a meaningful way to the design, research, analysis, or writing of a paper) and ghost authorship (someone who contributes to the research, or writing of the paper but not named as an author) should be avoided and will be treated as research misconduct.
      • Submissions from IPR must attach the Form for Patent Filing Initiation as their title page.
    • 2. Manuscript file
      • The manuscript file should be blinded of the authors’ names and institution name. It should include structured/unstructured abstract, introduction, methodology, results, discussion and conclusion with references, figures, tables and supplementary documents.
    • 3. Grammarly report
      • The complete manuscript shall be checked for English language, grammar, spelling, and readability using Grammarly and report should be submitted along with the manuscript.
      • For the purpose of POC review, a Grammarly score of 85% or above shall be considered acceptable.
    • 4. IEC approval certificate
    • 5. Journal details
      • All authors should structure their journal details using the template provided below.
      • Manuscript will be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin software. Those with less than or equal to 12% similarity score and less than or equal to 20% AI score will only be approved for submission to journal.
      • Manuscripts with greater than the above-mentioned scores or those with incomplete details or incorrect affiliations or any other gross errors will be sent back for revision and resubmission.
      • Decision from the POC will be made available within seven working days from the date of submission.
      • Revised manuscripts with all corrections incorporated should be re-submitted to the POC within 15 days.
      • POC will convene a meeting with the publication coordinators of all departments once every 3 months. Publication coordinators should update the POC with the current status of all manuscripts submitted from their respective departments.
      • POC will conduct regular programs on COPE guidelines for the students and the faculties to help them carry out and publish better research.
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POST PUBLICATION GUIDELINES

Post publication, it is mandatory to intimate the POC with the following details of the published article at the end of every month.

  • Hardcopy: The first page of the published article.
  • Soft copy: Published article along with the relevant journal details as per the newly attached Post publication template provided.

 

TEMPLATES FOR SUBMISSION

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