Journal of Immunology Research

Focus and Scope

Journal of Immunology Research 发表原始研究论文，提供快速的评论和出版物，可自由传播免疫学所有领域的研究结果，包括实验免疫学，先天和适应性免疫，临床免疫学，自身免疫等。该杂志专注于各个阶段研究方法的创新，致力于为所有参与这些领域的人们提供理论和实践经验。

免疫学杂志 旨在通过发表原创文章，案例研究和综合评论来发现免疫学的创新方法，理论和研究。

该期刊的论文范围包括但不限于：

• 天生和适应性免疫
• 实验免疫学
• 炎
• 主机防御
• 临床免疫学
• 自身免疫
• 癌症免疫学
• 移植免疫学
• 疫苗开发

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Copyright Notice

Copyright and Licensing

The authors shall retain the copyright of their work but allow the Publisher to publish, copy, distribute, and convey the work.

Journal of Immunology Research publishes accepted manuscripts under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Authors who submit their papers for publication by Journal of Immunology Research agree to have the CC BY-NC 4.0 license applied to their work, and that anyone is allowed to reuse the article or part of it free of charge for non-commercial use. As long as you follow the license terms and original source is properly cited, anyone may copy, redistribute the material in any medium or format, remix, transform, and build upon the material.

License Policy for Reuse of Third-Party Materials

If a manuscript submitted to the journal contains the materials which are held in copyright by a third-party, authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from the copyright holder to reuse or republish any previously published figures, illustrations, charts, tables, photographs, and text excerpts, etc. When submitting a manuscript, official written proof of permission must be provided and clearly stated in the cover letter.
The editorial office of the journal has the right to reject/retract articles that reuse third-party materials without permission.

Journal Policies on Data Sharing

We encourage authors to share articles published in our journal to other data platforms, but only if it is noted that it has been published in this journal.

Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Immunology Research will follow a rigorous double-blind peer review process, where reviewers and authors remain anonymous throughout the process and the peer review  comments will not be published.

1. New manuscripts will first be reviewed by the in-house editor to check whether the manuscripts conform to the scope and the ethical policies of the journal and whether there is plagiarism. Manuscripts that do not conform to the journal’s ethical policies and standards will be rejected directly. Manuscripts that passed the checking will proceed to the next stage.

2. For manuscripts that have been preliminarily reviewed, editors will assign them to experts in the corresponding research field for review. Reviewers are selected from editorial board members or external reviewers. Reviewers should not work at the same institution as any of the authors, or have recently (e.g. within the past 3 years) served as a mentor, close collaborators or joint grant holders.

If a submission contains supplementary materials, the reviewers are also required to evaluate them at the same level as the content of the main manuscript.

3.The Editor-in-Chief or the academic editor designated by the Editor-in-Chief will make a final decision based on the comments(at least 2 per manuscript) of the reviewers:
Accepted, Revisions Required, Resubmit for Review or Rejected

-If the decision is Accepted, the editorial office will directly send the acceptance letter and arrange for the further processing for publication;

-If the decision is Revisions Required, the author should revise and resubmit the manuscript within 7-14 days;

-If the decision is Resubmit for Review, the author will have more time to revise and resubmit for the second round of review until the manuscript is accepted;

-If the decision is Rejected, the in-house editor will directly inform the author of the final decision and archive submission.

Note: Authors may appeal for a rejected submission. The appeal must be made by letter to jir@bilpublishing.com and attach the detailed reasons for the appeal and the point-by-point reply to the reviewers’ comments. The decision of appeal will be given by the Editor-in-Chief or editorial board of the journal according to the relevant information of the article. Decisions on appeals are final without exception.

For all manuscripts accepted for publication, the peer review process will be deemed to be completed. The manuscript will proceed to be copyedited, layout edited and proofread before being published online.

Authorship

Each author should make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the article, including but not limited to the acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data, drafting of the manuscript or the substantial modification. In addition to reviewing the final manuscript before submission, all authors should have a voice in the final approval of the forthcoming version.

Individuals who do not meet the above requirements but have made valuable contributions to the article can be listed in the Acknowledgments of the manuscript.

The author’s contribution should be stated in the cover letter when submitting the manuscript.

Authorship Changes
Once the manuscript is submitted, it means that the authorship has been determined. If the authorship needs to be changed after submission, it shall be handled according to the following instruction:
-If the authorship needs to be added/deleted or the order of the author needs to be changed before the article is published, the corresponding author needs to explain the reason for the change to the editor by email and provide a statement that all authors agree to the change, and then the editor will handle it accordingly;
-If the authorship needs to be added/deleted or the order of the author needs to be changed after the article is published, the corresponding author needs to explain the reason for the change to the editor by email and provide a statement that all authors agree to the change. After the review of the editorial office the corresponding modification will be made and a correction notice will be issued.

Language

该杂志以英文出版。

作者应确保所有提交的手稿均以清晰，连贯且准确的英语书写，以优化其可读性。

如果作者需要翻译，欢迎作者与双语出版公司联系。可能会收取额外费用。

Editorial Policies

1. Editors adhere to the principles of independence and integrity and strictly abide by COPE's Core practices in the decision-making process, so as to strive for the publication and quality of manuscripts to meet the ethical standards.

2. All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Immunology Research are subject to rigorous peer review.

-Before peer review, manuscripts will be screened to examine the readability, novelty and relevance to the focus and scope of the journal.
-The editor shall maintain the fairness and impartiality of the review. Each manuscript shall be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Whether the manuscript is accepted by the journal will be decided by the Editor-in-Chief or the academic editor designated by the Editor-in-Chief in combination with the reviewer’s comments.

3. Any manuscript submitted to Journal of Immunology Research is confidential. The manuscript will not be disclosed to anyone except the editorial staff, reviewers, editors and other individuals who participate in the preliminary review, peer review, handling and responsible for publication of the manuscript (if accepted).

4. Editors shall not participate in all the processing of articles in which they have an interest.

5. We ensure that the commercial behavior of the journal will not affect the editorial decision, and firmly adhere to the principles of independence and integrity.