Editor Roles and Responsibilities

Responsibilities toward Authors :

• Providing guidelines to authors for manuscript preperation and submission. p
• Offering a clear declaration of the journal's policies regarding authorship criteria.
• Ensuring equitable, courteous, objective, honest, and transparent treatment to all authors.
• Establishing and outlining policies regarding conflicts of interest for all individuals involved in the publication process, encompassing editors, staff (such as editorial and sales personnel), authors, and reviewers.
• Implementing a streamlined and efficient peer-review system.
• Making editorial decisions promptly and conveying them clearly and constructively.
• Remaining watchful to prevent editors and/or referees from unduly delaying a manuscript for questionable reasons.
• Establishing a protocol for reviewing and reconsidering editorial decisions.
• Consistently reviewing policies related to ethical issues, the handling of misconduct, and uncovering findings involving authors and individuals participating in the peer-review process.

• Notifying authors that their submission will undergo evaluation based on the standard procedures of the journal.

• Collaborating with the publisher to devise mechanisms ensuring the timely publication of accepted manuscripts.

Responsibilities of Editor toward Reviewers

• Assigning papers for review according to the reviewer’s area of interest and expertise.
• Initiating a procedure for reviewers to confirm their commitment to treating the manuscript as a confidential document and completing the review promptly.
• Informing reviewers that they are prohibited from utilizing the work described in the manuscript or deriving any benefit from the knowledge acquired during the review prior to publication.
• Furnishing reviewers with explicit written instructions available on the journal's website.
• Ensuring that the reviewers have no conflict of interest in reviewing the article.
• Exploring methods to recognize the contributions of referees, such as providing professional education credits or extending invitations to join the editorial board of the journal.

Editors have the responsibility to inform and educate readers. Making well-defined and reasoned editorial decisions ensures the optimal selection of content that enhances the body of scientific knowledge. 

Editor Responsibilities toward Readers and Community

Editors have the responsibility to inform and educate readers. Making clear and rational editorial decisions will ensure the best selection of content that contributes to the body of scientific knowledge.

• Viewing and analyzing all manuscripts selected for publication should be proofread to evaluate the authors’ conclusions, and authors’ conclusions reflect the evidence provided in the manuscript. Providing author contact information so interested readers pursue for further discourse.
• Identifying individual and group authorship criteria are met to the best of the editor’s knowledge.
• Requiring all authors to review and accept responsibility for the content of the final draft of each paper or for those areas to which they have contributed.
• Maintaining the journal’s internal integrity.
• Ensuring that the publication process understand that it is inappropriate to manipulate citations, for example, demanding that authors cite papers published in the journal.
• Viewing that all authors must disclosing sources (e.g., authorship and funding)

Editor Responsibilities toward Publishers/ Journal Owners

• Accompanying peer review of submitted manuscripts
• Assembling endorsements about improved evaluation and distribution of scientific material.
• Obeying to the owner’s and publishers fiscal policies towards the journal, as they do not invade upon editorial individuality.
• Adhering to the agreed-upon mission, publication practices, and schedule