Journal of Mental Health and Substance Abuse provides the platform for an international forum to research a topic related to mental health and Substance Abuse and helps us to understand the effects of mental health, Substance Abuse and addiction on individuals, societies, and worldwide healthcare and scientific communities.
The Journal (J Ment Health Substance Use) aims to provide a platform for the research scholars, and academicians throughout the world to rapidly publish at a nominal fee, share, and discuss innovative, rare, and new findings that expand the knowledge in all areas of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
All manuscripts published by Mental Health and Substance Abuse are made freely accessible online immediately upon publication, without any subscription charges or barriers. Minimum three independent reviewer’s approval and an editor's approval are taken into consideration for acceptance or rejection of an article.
Authors are requested to submit their valuable
research, Original article, Case reports,
Review, mini-review, Short communication, Opinion, Letter to the Editor, etc as an attachment to the editorial office at: mentalhealth@gnosceince.com or
editor.substance@gnoscience.com
Mental Health and Substance Use, mental disorders, behavioural disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, mood disorders,feeding or eating disorders, Addiction Epidemiology, Alcohol and Addiction Studies, human addictions, Drug abuse, Substance Abuse, Biobehavioral Sciences, General Psychiatry, substance use disorders, neurocognitive disorders, disruptive behaviour or dissocial disorders, suicide and self-injury, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Depression, Drug Rehabilitation, Anxiety, Neuroscience, Neuropsychiatry, Psychopathology, Substance Abuse Treatment, Heavy metal Toxicity,Nicotine Addiction, molecular Neuropsychiatry, Narcotic Analgesics, Smoking Cessation, schizophrenia and bipolar illness, Alzheimer’s and Post-traumatic stress, Opioid-Related Disorders, Morphine addiction, psychopathology, bipolar disorder, catatonic depression, depressive disorder.
Note: Single-blind peer review is a conventional method of peer review where the authors do not know who the reviewers are. However, the reviewers know who the authors are.
Shmuel Sam Vaknin
Email: samvaknin[at]gmail.com
Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University,
Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Professor of Finance, Russia.
Rogers Shitiavayi Songole
Email: rogerssongole[at]yahoo.com
Department
of Mental Health,
Abdul Majid
Email: maajid72[AT]gmail.com
Associate Professor SKIMS Medical College,
Srinagar
Sinisa Franjic
Email: sinisa.franjic[at]gmail.com
Faculty of Law
International University of Brcko,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Malakeh Zuhdi Malak
Email: malakehmalak[at]yahoo.com
Yury Evgeny Razvodovsky
Email: yury_razvodovsky[at]mail.ru
Yagnik Laxkumar Ravishanker
Email: laxyagnik[@]yahoo.com.
Professor & Head, Department of Psychology, Sardar Patel University, Gujrat, India
Rajib Dutta
Email: rajibdutta808[at]gmail.com
Department of Neurology, India
Antonios Kalentzis
Email: psychologized[AT]gmail.com
Department of Psychology, City Unity College Greece, Greece
Giuseppe Lanza
Email: glanza[at]oasi.en.it
Mohammad Qasim Abdullah
Email: mk.abdalah[at]yahoo.com
Suprakash Chaudhury
Email: suprakashch[at]gmail.com
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Journal of Mental Health and Substance Abuse welcomes the author to submit Research article, Original article, Case reports, Review, mini-review, Short communication, Opinion, Letter to the Editor, etc as an attachment to the editorial office at: editor.substance@gnoscience.com or mentalhealth@gnosceince.com
Scope: All
areas related to Mental health and Substance Abuse aspects such as:
Mental
Health and Substance Use, mental disorders, behavioural disorders,
neurodevelopmental disorders, mood disorders, feeding or eating disorders,
Addiction Epidemiology, Alcohol and Addiction Studies, human addictions, Drug
abuse, Substance Abuse, Biobehavioural Sciences, General Psychiatry, substance
use disorders, neurocognitive disorders, disruptive behaviour or dissocial
disorders, suicide and self-injury, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
Depression, Drug Rehabilitation, Anxiety, Neuroscience, Neuropsychiatry,
Psychopathology, Substance Abuse Treatment, Heavy metal Toxicity, Nicotine Addiction, molecular
Neuropsychiatry, Narcotic Analgesics, Smoking Cessation, schizophrenia and
bipolar illness, Alzheimer’s and Post-traumatic stress, Opioid-Related
Disorders, Morphine addiction, psychopathology, bipolar disorder, catatonic
depression, depressive disorder.
Why
does Gnoscience Group Charge Article processing fees?
Because
Gnoscience is a self-supporting organization and does not receive funding from
any institution/government, at the same time we don't charge subscription or
access fees, we ask authors to contribute to costs incurred by processing and
publishing Open Access work. When you contribute to the Gnoscience Open Access
journal, you're funding tools and resources such as:
We
request authors to contribute minimum publication charges as mentioned in the
table.
Article Type |
Processing Fee |
||
Low Income |
Middle Income |
High Income |
|
Research/Reviews | $150 |
$350 |
$550 |
Case Reports/Mini-Reviews/short Communucation |
$120 |
$220 |
$350 |
Special Issue |
$120 |
$220 |
$320 |
Note:
This publication charges are applicable to invited authors also.
Withdrawal Policy
Authors may wish to withdraw their manuscript after submitting. To withdraw a manuscript, we do not charge any fee, unless we haven’t done with the review process. We ask authors to pay 50% of the original article processing fee in case if author wish to withdraw after the review process is completed.
Articles in the areas related to Mental Health and Substance Use, Mental disorders, Behavioural disorders, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Mood disorders, Feeding or eating disorders, Addiction Epidemiology, Alcohol and Addiction Studies, etc are welcome in the Journal of Mental Health and Substance Abuse.
The manuscripts meeting the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence can be submitted.
The scholarly articles will be published approximately 15 days after acceptance.
The articles go through the Single blind review process, where the names of the reviewers are hidden from the authors
Submission Guidelines
Author of the article must be responsible for the article during the submission and peer review process, and must follow the instructions for submitting the manuscript.
Author must provide a cover letter with the article, where should explain why the manuscript should be published and declare any potential competing interests.
Author can provide the contact details (name and email addresses) of two potential peer reviewers for the manuscript. These reviewers should be experts in their field who will provide an objective assessment of the manuscript.
The suggested peer reviewers should not have published with any of the authors of the manuscript within the past five years, should not be current collaborators and should not be members of the same research institution.
Suggested reviewers will be considered along with potential reviewers recommended by the Editorial Board members.
Procedures to Process to Manuscript
Peer Review Process
After submission, Case reports and Reviews: Open access follows single blinded peer review process where the names of the reviewers are hidden from the authors.
Plagiarism
Only novel manuscripts are approved after submission by the author, following standardized research methods. Manuscripts are subjected towards plagiarism check to determine their originality. Manuscript should not have the same content that is already published online. These acts and gestures are considered unethical publication practices and hence they are not encouraged.
Basic rules to prepare manuscript. Author, kindly go through given instructions
Manuscript Titles
Title should be brief, precise and technical enough to explain the intended meaning of the manuscript. It is usually free from acronyms, abbreviations or punctuation's.
Author Affiliation
Author name includes Last name followed by the concern Initials without space or any punctuation. In case of more than one author, they should be differentiated by the conjunction ‘and’ before the name of the Last author. Their affiliations are denoted by the superscript numbers after the initials of the author’s name. Corresponding author is represented with an asterisk in superscript.
Abstract
The word limit for Abstract is max. 250. It must summarize specifically the scientific content in the manuscript. It should be brief and accurate and must not contain any citations.
Index term/Keywords
Keywords serve as main tool for Indexers as well as Readers to locate your manuscript. Keywords enhance the chances of getting more citations and high readership to your manuscript. An article might contain up to maximum of 4-6 Keywords.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations must be separated by semicolon and all the abbreviations used in the manuscript must be mentioned with its expanded form at first instance.
Introduction
The introduction should discuss the purpose of the study in the broader context. Introduction should be clear to the readers who are not experts in this field. Include a brief review of the key literature. If there are relevant controversies or disagreements in the field, they should be mentioned so that a non-expert reader can delve into these issues further. The introduction should conclude with a brief statement of the overall aim of the experiments and a comment about whether that aim was achieved.
Materials and Methods
This section should provide a complete overview of the design of the study. Detailed descriptions of materials or participants, comparisons, interventions, and types of analysis should be mentioned. However, only new procedures should be described in detail; previously published procedures should be cited and important modifications of published procedures should be mentioned briefly. Capitalize trade names and include the manufacturer's name and address.
Results and Discussion
The results section should provide complete details of the experiment that are required to support the conclusion of the study. The results should be written in the past tense when describing findings in the authors' experiments. Previously published findings should be written in the present tense. Results and discussion may be combined or in a separate section. Speculation and detailed interpretation of data should not be included in the results but should be put into the discussion section.
Conclusion
This section should provide to adhere to support the study conclusions. This section included briefly detailed conclusive parameters of the whole study.
Acknowledgement
Authors can include funding sources and personal acknowledgement in this section. Authors are encouraged to list all the funding sources used for preparation of manuscript. Please provide the grant number and authors associated with specific funding sources.
Supplementary Information
We do not limit the number of supplementary material items that author has to include in the manuscript. Supplementary materials should be named as S (Example Figure S1, Table S1, Video S1, etc.). Make sure that these supplementary items should be cited in the text. They are published as raw dataset along with the manuscript.
References
References must be listed in the numerical system (Vancouver). All references should be numbered sequentially [in square brackets] in the text and listed in the same numerical order in the reference section. The reference numbers must be finalized and the bibliography must be fully formatted before submission.
The references should be relevant to the study and should refer to the original research sources. Self-citation and self-interest should be avoided by the authors, editors and peer-reviewers.
Examples
Journal Article with less than 3 authors: mention name of all the authors.
Nasta AM, Mayo HG, Kim P. Case report of ventral hernia complicating bariatric surgery. J Bio Med Open Access. 2022;3(2):126
Journal Article with more than 3 authors: mention name of the first three authors followed by et al.
Nasta AM, Mayo HG, Kim P, et al. Gemellamorbillorum: An underestimated etiology of central nervous system infection? J Bio Med Open Access. 2014;17(1):145-148.
Exceptions
Book References: name of the author, Title of Book. Nth ed. Country: Publisher; year
Mayo HG, Lichtinger A, Kim P. Principles of Genetics. 8th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons; 2009
Book Chapter: name of the author, Title of book: editors: Country: Publisher; year. Page no.
Yeung SN, Lichtinger A, Mayo HG. Adhesion molecules and site-specific metastasis.In Thrombosis: NeriSerneri SS, Gensini GF, editors: An Update. New York: John Wiley & Sons; 1989. 269-303p.