International Journal of Advancement in Life Sciences Research

About International Journal of Advancement in Life Sciences Research

International Journal of Advancement in Life Sciences Research — Journal Profile

The International Journal of Advancement in Life Sciences Research (IJALSR) is an English-language, online life-sciences journal published from Kolkata, India, by the Dr Tarak Nath Podder Memorial Foundation. It carries the online ISSN 2581-4877 — no print ISSN is recorded for the title — and registers its articles with Crossref under the DOI prefix 10.31632, so papers appear in the form 10.31632/ijalsr.… The journal began publishing in 2018: Crossref and OpenAlex both record its first twenty or so articles in that year, organised by volume and issue (Volume 4, for example, corresponds to 2021). It publishes original research, reviews, case studies and letters across the life sciences, with a visible centre of gravity in medicinal plants, phytochemistry, pharmacology, microbiology and environmental studies, and it charges a publication fee on acceptance while keeping submission free.

This profile is anchored on the Journals World record for the journal (post title as given above, slug international-journal-of-advancement-in-life-sciences-research, ISSN 2581-4877, publisher record for the Dr Tarak Nath Podder Memorial Foundation, India) and verified against the journal's own website at ijalsr.org — its instructions to authors and its publication ethics and policies page — together with Crossref and OpenAlex records retrieved directly for the journal's ISSN, and a DOAJ check. Where publisher statements and registry records differ, both are reported and the difference is flagged.

Quick facts

History and development

IJALSR is a young journal. Its registered output begins in 2018 with about twenty articles, and Crossref's year-by-year counts show a steady early pattern — 21 works in 2019, 23 in 2020, 20 in 2021, 22 in 2022 and 21 in 2023 — followed by a sharp expansion to 62 works in 2024 and 66 in 2025, with more than fifty already registered for 2026 at the time this profile was prepared. That tripling of volume is the single most important fact about the journal's recent development: it changes the journal's scale, its editorial workload and the meaning of its citation averages, and any evaluation of the title should use year-matched figures rather than lifetime ones. The publisher is a memorial foundation — the Dr Tarak Nath Podder Memorial Foundation of Kolkata — rather than a university or a commercial house, and the journal is its scholarly publishing activity, run through the journal website with an editorial office at the foundation's Dixon Lane address.

The journal's article corpus shows a consistent regional-scientific character. Early issues carry work such as a study of fluoride contamination in the groundwater of Deoghar, Jharkhand (Volume 4, Issue 1, 2021, pages 7–12), and a laboratory study of long-term high-fat-diet mortality in Sprague Dawley rats from a Malaysian university group (same issue, pages 31–37) — Indian and South and Southeast Asian institutional authorship predominates, with topics rooted in regional public-health, agricultural and natural-product questions.

Scope and subject coverage

The journal's remit is the advancement of the life sciences as a whole, and its instructions to authors define the article types rather than a narrow subject list: original articles reporting new research, review articles (editor-invited, though submitted reviews are also accepted and put through editorial review), case studies of special issues or new procedures in limited cases with good but not yet internationally confirmed results, and short letters discussing articles published in the journal during the previous six months. The topic profile that OpenAlex derives from the journal's actual corpus is a fair map of the scope in practice: medicinal plant research; phytochemicals and antioxidant activities; essential oils and antimicrobial activity; natural antidiabetic agents; pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes; and genetics and plant breeding. Environmental and public-health studies (such as the groundwater fluoride work), animal-model pharmacology and nutrition studies, and microbiology also recur. Authors in botany, zoology, microbiology, pharmacology, pharmacy practice, food and agricultural science, and environmentally oriented life science will find the fit natural; authors in fields far from the life sciences will not, and should note that one passage of the journal's ethics page refers incongruously to submissions in "business & tourism" — wording that does not match the journal's stated life-sciences remit or its published corpus, and that readers should treat as an editorial artifact of the publisher's page rather than as scope guidance. The author instructions are the controlling document for scope.

Publisher and editorial governance

The publisher of record in Crossref is the Dr Tarak Nath Podder Memorial Foundation, matching the publisher record on this site and the office address given on the journal's own pages: 34 Dixon Lane, Kolkata 700 014, India, with the editorial email info@ijalsr.org. The journal's publication ethics and policies page sets out its governance expectations: corresponding authors must confirm that a manuscript has not been published previously and is not under consideration elsewhere; all listed authors must have read and agreed the manuscript; after publication the corresponding author signs a copyright transfer agreement under which rights pass to the publisher for the length of copyright; and simultaneous submission of the same research to multiple journals is prohibited. Financial support must be disclosed, and competing interests declared in the manuscript's acknowledgements.

Named editorial-board details are presented on the journal's own website. Because boards of small foundation-run journals change without registry notification, this profile deliberately does not reproduce a masthead snapshot; readers who need the current board — for example to verify a claimed editorship — should take it from ijalsr.org directly and date their note.

Peer review process

The journal describes a two-stage process on its ethics page. Submitted manuscripts are first reviewed by the editorial board against the journal's criteria and standards; plagiarism screening with the Turnitin similarity-detection application is the first step of the review process, and manuscripts with an undesirable level of similarity to published work are rejected immediately. Reviewers handle manuscripts blindly and discuss their remarks in editorial meetings; the remarks go to the corresponding author for modifications, and the corrected version is then reviewed a second time by two or three external reviewers. The journal does not publish average review durations on the pages consulted, so authors should ask the editorial office for current timelines before relying on them in a degree or promotion schedule. The process as described is a genuine editorial screen plus external review; as with any young journal, authors with institutional requirements for documented peer review should keep the journal's decision letters with their records.

Fees, licensing and access

Submission is free. A publication fee is charged on acceptance, and the journal's own pages give two figures that authors must reconcile before submitting: the publication ethics page states an article publication fee of USD 300, while the instructions-to-authors page carries a revised schedule, stated to apply to all articles accepted for publication effective from 1 July 2026, of USD 350 per manuscript, with an article processing charge of INR 15,000 for Indian authors, extra charges where a paper has more than five authors, and individual waiver requests considered on application during submission, normally decided within seven working days. The instructions page is the more recent and more detailed statement and is the one this profile treats as current, but the discrepancy is flagged here deliberately: confirm the amount payable, in writing, at acceptance, and keep the confirmation. Articles are published online on the journal's website with Crossref DOIs. The journal is not listed in DOAJ — verified searches of the DOAJ index by its ISSN and by its full title returned no record — so it should not be described as a DOAJ-listed open-access journal, and no Creative Commons licence statement for its articles could be verified from the pages consulted; the journal's model is a copyright-transfer-to-publisher model under its stated agreement, which authors should read before signing.

Indexing and bibliometric indicators

The verifiable registry footprint is Crossref and OpenAlex. Crossref holds 308 registered DOIs for the journal under ISSN 2581-4877 (309 works in the Crossref index), confirming systematic DOI registration from 2018 onward. OpenAlex's source record (S4210213066), retrieved directly by ISSN for this profile, holds 309 works and 634 citations, with an h-index of 10, an i10-index of 12 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.66; OpenAlex locates the journal in India and records annual output of about 20–23 works a year for 2018–2023 (the 2024–2026 expansion is visible in the Crossref counts above). The Journals World template previously displayed an h-index of 9 for this post, close to the OpenAlex figure of 10 given normal index drift.

Equally important is what could not be verified. No SCImago listing for the journal was found, which means no Scopus-based quartile or SJR should be claimed for it; the Q4 category on this site's record is a site classification, not a SCImago quartile, and readers should not cite it as one. No DOAJ record exists, as noted above. Any claim encountered elsewhere that the journal is "Scopus-indexed" or carries an "impact factor" should be checked against the Scopus source list and the Clarivate Master Journal List respectively; neither could be verified from the authoritative sources consulted for this profile, and the journal's own pages consulted do not substantiate such claims. Judged on verifiable evidence, IJALSR is a small, DOI-registering, fee-charging life-sciences journal with a real but modest citation record and a rapidly growing output since 2024 — a legitimate profile for a young regional title, provided authors go in with their eyes open about fees, licensing and indexing.

Submitting a manuscript

Manuscripts must be written in good English (American or British usage) and submitted exclusively to IJALSR with a signed covering letter incorporating the copyright agreement, naming the corresponding author; the editorial board reserves the right to make changes needed to harmonise a manuscript with the journal's framework. The instructions are detailed and worth following literally:

• Format: MS Word, single style column, 2 cm margins on A4; article title in bold Arial 14 with each word capitalised; authors, qualifications, full postal addresses, telephone and email in the stated styles; the corresponding author should provide a direct contact number for prompt contact.
• Abstract: structured (background, methods, results, conclusion), under 250 words; keywords 3–5. Original articles run 12–22 pages including references; case studies must not exceed 2,000 words; letters must be under 500 words and discuss an article from the previous six months.
• Structure: title page, abstract, keywords, introduction, research methods (with statistical methods and software named), results, discussion (including limitations and future scope stated separately), conclusion, acknowledgements (with funding and competing-interest declarations), references.
• Tables and figures: maximum five tables and six figures; tables placed in the text with captions above, figures at the end with captions below; figures preferably EPS for line art and TIFF at 300 dpi for halftones; colour only where essential.
• References: APA style, alphabetical, every in-text citation matched in the list, with Crossref DOI links or web links with access dates for references cited in the abstract.
• Budget for the publication fee on acceptance (see the fees section — confirm the current amount with the office), and note the extra charge for papers with more than five authors; waiver requests go to the journal's email during submission.

Two further instruction details shape what a good submission looks like here. The discussion section must state explicitly whether the hypothesis set out in the paper is true, false, or whether no conclusion can be derived, and limitations and future scope must be described separately rather than folded into general discussion — a discipline that makes the journal's papers easier to evaluate and to cite. Illustrations taken from other publications require the author's own permission clearance, and the journal caps the apparatus deliberately (five tables, six figures) so that papers argue in text rather than in exhibits. Authors used to journals with looser house styles should treat the final checklist on the instructions page — title page with qualifications and full addresses, structured abstract, keywords, references in order, tables and figures placed and cited, and the signed copyright covering letter — as a compliance gate, because the editorial board's first review is explicitly a criteria-and-standards screen before external review begins.

How to verify this journal

Three checks reproduce this profile's evidence in minutes: search Crossref for ISSN 2581-4877 to see the registered corpus and its growth; open the OpenAlex source record by the same ISSN for works, citations and topics; and search DOAJ by ISSN and title to confirm the absence of a listing before repeating any open-access claim. Fee and policy claims should be taken from the journal's own instructions and ethics pages — and where those two pages differ, as they currently do on the publication fee, the written confirmation from the editorial office at acceptance is the document that counts.

Frequently asked questions

What is IJALSR's ISSN? Online ISSN 2581-4877. No print ISSN is recorded for the title.

Who publishes it and where? The Dr Tarak Nath Podder Memorial Foundation, 34 Dixon Lane, Kolkata 700 014, India. The stored publisher number on this site resolves to that foundation's publisher record.

When did it start? 2018 — Crossref and OpenAlex both record its first articles that year, and its volume numbering (Volume 4 in 2021) is consistent with a 2018 start.

Does it charge authors? Submission is free; a publication fee is charged on acceptance. The ethics page states USD 300; the instructions page states a revised USD 350 (INR 15,000 for Indian authors) effective 1 July 2026, with extra charges for more than five authors and waivers available on request. Confirm the current amount with the editorial office.

Is it indexed in DOAJ or Scopus? No DOAJ record was found in verified searches by ISSN and title, and no SCImago (Scopus-based) listing could be verified. Its verifiable registry presence is Crossref DOIs and an OpenAlex source record.

What are its citation metrics? OpenAlex records 309 works, 634 citations and an h-index of 10. Treat any higher "impact" figures found on unofficial sites as unverified.

What subjects does it cover? Life sciences broadly, with a corpus centred on medicinal plants, phytochemistry, essential oils and antimicrobials, antidiabetic agents, pharmacology and pharmaceutical practice, genetics and plant breeding, and environmental life science.

What article types and lengths apply? Original articles of 12–22 pages, review articles, case studies up to 2,000 words, and letters under 500 words; structured abstract under 250 words; APA references; maximum five tables and six figures.

Sources and verification note

Principal sources: the journal's official website ijalsr.org — Instructions to Authors page (article types and lengths, formatting, final checklist, fee schedule stated as effective 1 July 2026, foundation address and contact email) and Publication Ethics & Policies page (originality and simultaneous-submission rules, copyright transfer agreement, two-stage review with two or three external reviewers, Turnitin screening, USD 300 publication-fee statement); Crossref journal and works records for ISSN 2581-4877 retrieved directly (publisher of record, 308 DOIs / 309 works, per-year counts 2018–2026, DOI prefix 10.31632, and two 2021 article records used as corpus examples); OpenAlex source record S4210213066 retrieved by ISSN (309 works, 634 citations, h-index 10, i10-index 12, mean citedness, topics, country IN); DOAJ searches by ISSN and by full title, both returning no record; and the Journals World saved record for post 31472. Fee figures are publisher-stated and are reported with their page sources because the journal's two pages currently differ.