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There are some guides for editors in a journal. Journal editors must agree to adhere to the COPE Core Practices, the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing developed by the COPE, and the journal’s ethics and policies.
Editors include the members of editorial board, editorial staff, and guest editors. All the editors must follow the peer review process, and declare the conflicts of interest. In terms of suspected misconducts, please deal with them in accordance with the polices on appeal and complaint, misconduct, AI or AI-assisted tools, and correction, withdrawal, and retraction of the journal.
Editorial Board Members
Usually, Editorial Board Members are responsible for the quality of the publication. They may include the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Editorial Board Members. The positions vary depending on different journals.
An Editor-in-Chief is usually invited by the journal office depending on his/her academic achievements, community reputation, publishing experience, etc. Scholars with extensive academic backgrounds are also welcome to apply for this position. An Editor-in-Chief takes charge of the whole peer review process, and ensures that manuscripts are evaluated fairly and objectively. The Editor-in-Chief’s decision is generally final. The Editor-in-Chief is also responsible for receiving complaints and, where appropriate, conducting investigations into allegations and making final decisions on the allegations.
Main responsibilities of an Editor-in-Chief are as follows:
Associate Editors are usually responsible for quality control of manuscripts in a particular section area. The handling editor assigns manuscripts to an Associate Editor to act as an academic editor, and he/she performs initial review of the manuscript. The Associate Editor reviews the manuscript for research areas, critical statements, authors’ approval, etc., and screens manuscripts for the next stage. Manuscripts that do not meet the scope and requirements of the journal will be rejected at the initial review stage. The Associate Editor is responsible for inviting external-independent reviewers, collecting at least two high-quality review reports, and summarizing comments for the Editor-in-Chief’s decision.
If a journal does not have an Associate Editor, other editors will be assigned as academic editors, such as Editorial Board Members and Guest Editors.
Main responsibilities of Editorial Board Members are as follows:
Editorial Board Members should have an international dimension, such as diversity in research interests, internationalization of regions, internationalization of ethnicity, and gender balance. Members are normally appointed for a period of three years. The journal office will decide on the appointment of members for the next term based on their performance during the term. Any failure to perform will result in the cancellation of the appointment at any time.
Guest editors
Some journals conduct a special issue or a section collection program, where guest editors are invited to promote this program. Please refer to the special issue policy or section collection policy for more details.
Editorial staff
The internal staff of the editorial office in a journal include managing editors, assistant editors, production editors, copyeditors, et al. They work with Editorial Board Members employed by institutes around the world to develop an academic journal. Managing editors take charge of the general management of the journal, and assistant editors support the peer review process, copyeditors and production editors will edit accepted manuscripts according to the journal’s template. The editorial office receives any inquiries, appeals and complaints. Please contact us at editorial_office@sin-chn.net for more details.
Development of a journal
All the participants in a journal have the responsibility to promote the journal in various ways.