Editorial

On behalf of the Board of Annals of Biological Sciences survey and co-editors, I am glad to present the Volume 9, Issue 5 of the journal. It is an open access peer review journal in the field of Biological Sciences. Annals of Biological Sciences survey is having International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) of 2348-1927.

With the cooperation of the senior and associate editors, we have created a set of practices and an environment that encourages the delivery of quality reviews in a timely fashion. These policies include the Expedited reviews. Manuscripts are reviewed at the editorin- chief, senior editor, and associate editor levels before being sent out to reviewers. At any of these stages an editor may reject the manuscript or send it back to the author for improvement. This gets a response to the authors much more quickly and preserves reviewing resources for other manuscripts. In the case of immediate revision, authors are given a chance to provide an enhanced manuscript to the eventual reviewers, thus increasing the odds of acceptance. Associate editors complete a short evaluation for each reviewer on each manuscript. This process reminds reviewers that they are responsible for timely, high-quality reviews and also serves to help identify future associate editor candidates.

All scientific manuscripts including editorials are subjected to peer review process. At many instances members of the editorial board also prefer to submit their articles. In fact, ABS encourages editorial board members to actively contribute. However, no special privileges are given to anyone.

Annals of Biological Sciences follow a double blind peer review process where identity of authors and reviewers is not revealed to each other. The review generally involves two to six subject experts. The editorial team consisting of associate editors and assistant editors are involved in the entire article cycle starting from submission to final recommendation. The entire review process is carefully structured so as to minimize possibility of bias.

Annals of Biological Sciences survey functions on principles of scientific excellence, publication ethics and transparency. It makes the authors easy to submit their articles through the online manuscript submission and review system managed by Imed as the publisher. Journal follows strict guidelines related to publication ethics and conflict of interests.

Main aims and objectives of this journal is to publish more and more quality articles of research, review, short commentary, mini reviews, case reports etc which will be very useful for the readers. We would like publish more articles related to Agric. Engineering and Technology, Agronomy, Anatomy, Behaviour, Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biometry, Biosciences, Biomechanics, Psychology, Botany, Cell Biology, Clinical Sciences, Conservation and Management of Ecosystems, Crop Sciences, Cytology, Development and Differentiation, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Evolutionary biology, Fisheries and Aqua-Sciences, Food and Nutrition Sciences, Forestry, Genetics, Horticultural Sciences, Human biology and Science, Human Exercise Physiology, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Morphology, Pathology, Pest, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology, Plant Breeding, Soil Sciences, Special Cultivation Technology, Stress Breeding, Taxonomy and Veterinary Sciences.

Average download per article is increasing and all these are promising signs. Now we are in this stage only through the continuous support of Editorial Board Members and intellectual generosity of the readers and contributors (authors and reviewers).

In future we would like to publish more quality articles related to Biology and the modern research that show good process in science world.

With the support of authors, Editorial board members, reviewers and readers of Annals of Biological Sciences survey became very successful with good number of quality articles and will reach good heights with this continuous support. Thanks to all the reviewers and editors whose cooperation and hard work made this possible. ABS publishes up-to-date, high-quality and original research papers alongside relevant and insightful reviews.