Author Name & Profile Updates

Here is the adapted Author Name & Profile Updates Policy, rewritten specifically for your journal in accordance with all specified parameters, publisher details, and strict guidelines (preserving original headings, adapting to the health and rehabilitation scope, using publisher contact details, and ensuring no mention of ISSN or DOI anywhere):

AUTHOR NAME & PROFILE UPDATES POLICY

The Journal of Exact Community Health & Rehabilitation Sciences (JECH), published by EXACT RESEARCH SOLUTIONS (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED, fully supports the right of authors to update their name, gender identity, and/or personal pronouns in previously published scientific articles. JECH recognizes that authors may require name and identity adjustments for a variety of personal or professional reasons, including but not limited to marriage, divorce, gender affirmation, religious conversion, or personal preference. The journal is committed to executing these updates in a dignified, confidential, and supportive manner across physical therapy, rehabilitation, community health, and allied medical research publications.

Policy Overview

  • No Disclosure Required: Name and profile update requests are honored unconditionally without requiring authors to state a personal reason or submit private legal documentation.

  • System-Wide Updates: The author’s updated name and/or pronouns will be systematically revised across all journal-controlled digital platforms and publication formats, including web HTML versions, downloadable article PDFs, and structured OJS metadata files.

  • Citation Stability: Permanent article URLs, web links, and bibliographic index references remain fully active, intact, and valid, ensuring seamless citation continuity without breaking existing scholarly links.

  • Discreet Processing for Privacy: To safeguard author privacy and mitigate potential bias or unnecessary exposure, name and pronoun updates are executed quietly across the publication record without issuing a public formal Erratum or Correction notice.

  • Typographical Errors: Inadvertent spelling or typographical errors introduced during initial submission or typesetting will continue to be processed separately under the journal’s standard Erratum and Corrections Policy.

Indexing and Third-Party Platforms

  • Journal Record Updates: JECH will immediately update all internal server files, database entries, and OJS platform metadata.

  • External Notification: The journal editorial office will formally transmit updated bibliographic metadata to digital preservation networks (such as the PKP Preservation Network) and relevant indexing services where feasible.

  • Third-Party Platforms: Authors should note that updating external academic repositories, citation databases, or third-party discovery services depends on the independent operational schedules, ingestion protocols, and policies of those individual organizations.

Request Requirements

To initiate a confidential name or profile update, the requesting author should submit an email to Admin@jech.exactresolution.com containing:

  1. Previously published full name as it currently appears on the article.

  2. Updated full name, preferred title, and/or personal pronouns to be applied.

  3. Active author contact email address.

  4. Title(s) and official article web link(s) / permanent URL(s) of the affected publication(s).

  5. Explicit preference regarding whether co-authors should be notified of the metadata update (co-authors will not be contacted unless the requesting author explicitly requests or consents to notification).

Contact Details

  • Official Email: Admin@jech.exactresolution.com

  • Publisher Office: EXACT RESEARCH SOLUTIONS (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.