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Guide For Editors

Editors in open-access publishing play a crucial role in ensuring the quality, integrity, and visibility of scholarly content. Their responsibilities encompass various tasks that contribute to the successful functioning of the publishing process.

  • Editors must ensure a fair and efficient peer-review and editorial process in a timely manner.
  • Editors should ensure that the manuscripts submitted to the journals remain confidential as long as they are in the peer-review process.
  • The final decision on whether a manuscript can be accepted or rejected for publication is based on the quality, novelty, clarity, as well as the scientific significance of the study.
  • Editors must make sure that the manuscript is within the scope of the journal to which it is submitted.
  • Editors should be ready to clarify any unconventionalities in the described processes.
  • Editors must inform readers about the funding source for research or any scholarly work and the role of funders in the research, if applicable.
  • The editor must respond immediately to any complaints in an honest and respectful manner.
  • The editor must be fair in making decisions for manuscripts. Every manuscript must be judged carefully independent of background, race, religion, gender, affiliation, etc.
  • To avoid conflicts of interest, any paper authored by the editor must not be handled by the editor themselves but must be assigned to another qualified researcher within the scope of the manuscript.
  • If errors are found in a paper published by a journal at any point in time, the editor should assist in preparing a report outlining the errors, and if possible, the correction of such errors should be taken care of. The report can be written by the editor, the author, or any other member of the editorial team.
  • Editors must establish clear guidelines that define authorship criteria. If any author fails to meet the criteria, they should be omitted from the list of authors.
  • Editors should exercise caution when publishing images that have cultural importance or images that may cause offense.