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I am thankful to the publishers for providing opportunity to be a member of editorial board of UJPR. Writing for Scientific community is always an arduous task. I have been a silent observer of progress made by UJPR. We must agree that growth is rapid among the long list of journals. UJPR has not compromised with quality which is the biggest achievement. The authors have contributed good quality papers supported by well researched data. They have made job of reviewers difficult. After all a foolproof paper is a challenge to reviewers.  For this both authors and reviewers deserve appreciation.

In recent times the standard of education has gone up worldwide. The terms “developing and underdeveloped countries” is fading away. This has resulted in significant contribution from scientists from these nations in scientific writing and reports.  Students enrolling for pharma education has gone up significantly. Pharm D program has changed the value and acceptance of pharma professionals many fold. The number of students enrolled in Ph. D. programme in this field has seen significant growth over the years.  This has resulted in significant contribution from scientists from these nations in scientific writing and reports. With the boom in digital access, a challenge has emerged for validation of the research publication. Plagiarism has become a common menace for publisher of scientific journals. Plagiarism can easily be understood as false assumption of authorship. Add to this a large amount of fake data just for the sake of publication. Plagiarism has caused challenge and conflict to researchers and academicians who largely depend on data available on internet. The authors must also be careful while writing or checking the manuscript. Sometimes line between plagiarism and original may be very thin. Not putting a quote in inverted comma may result in plagiarism. 

To conclude I must say, the demon is looming large. We as scientific community must identify such offenders. In conferences and workshop such culprits must be highlighted. The area of research must be quarantined for such felon of scientific community. Let us take a pledge to fight against such activity and keep the field of research clean and pious.

My best wishes to all.