Manuscript Guidelines

Rigorous standards for scholarly submission

Nigerian Publishing House enforces rigorous peer review across all six autonomous imprints. Authors receive structured procedural evaluation, transparent desk screening, and rapid dissemination into international citation indexes.

Procedural Workflow

Four stages of evaluation

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Initial Desk Screening

Double-Blind Peer Review

Revisions and Copyediting

Production and DOI Issuance

Managing editors verify discipline fit, formatting compliance, and institutional clearance documents within seven days of submission.

Independent subject-matter specialists conduct rigorous methodological critiques and factual verification under strict mutual anonymity.

Authors address itemized reviewer reports with detailed response tables before professional editorial proofing commences.

Final typesetting, Crossref DOI registration, and archival deposit in international repositories ensure permanent discoverability.

Submission Checklist

Mandatory author prerequisites

Manuscripts must satisfy verified integrity criteria before editors initiate formal external specialist assessment.

Identity
Transparency
Governance

Verified ORCID Identifiers

Open Data Repositories

Institutional Ethics Approval

Every contributing co-author must supply a valid ORCID profile to guarantee correct attribution across indexing databases.

Empirical datasets, calculation code, and survey instruments must reside in publicly accessible, citable research repositories.

Clinical investigations and human participant surveys require formal review board approval certificates cited in the methodology.

Author editorial inquiries

Editorial desk coordinators answer procedural status inquiries and submission formatting questions across all six imprints.