Editors Roles
- Chief Editor
- Associate Editor
- Managing Editor
- Statistical Editor
- Editorial & Advisory Board
Chief Editor
Editor-in-Chief is the most senior position in Academic Editors. With the assistance from Managing
Editor, Editor-in-Chief leads the journal with the responsibility to:
- Determine scope and direction of the journal.
- Recommend Editorial Board members.
- Provide feedback timely and to launch the journal with editorial team’s assistance.
- Supervise the journal in technique and to improve its scientific content.
- Pre-check and make decision on manuscripts and to ensure quality of publications.
- Decide development strategy of the journal each year.
- Be actively involved in promoting the journal development and public awareness.
Associate Editor
- Review of manuscripts and suggesting suitable reviewers.
- Ensuring that the publication maintains the highest quality while adhering to the publication rules and procedures of the journal.
- Occasionally, solicit articles / interesting work from your colleagues/acquaintances and help.
- Promote the journal at conferences and meetings.
- Submit an Inaugural Article which may have multiple authors, but the Associate Editor must be a corresponding author.
- Suggest and review the special issues as well.
Managing Editor
- Take an active part in the peer review process.
- Maintain highest standards of ethics and competence.
- Supervise editing of manuscripts for each issue with respect to scientific writing and layout conventions.
- Suggesting changes to enhance the content quality of the journal.
- Systematic evaluation of the review reports , hold vital decision on paper acceptance or rejection.
- No delays in assessing the review reports.
Statistical Editor
- To provide statistical direction to the journal.
- Validating statistical methodology, trends and results.
- To ensure that the statistical tests used were appropriate, the results are properly interpreted and reported.
- Avoid outdated / invalid methods, even if pre-specified in protocol.
Editorial & Advisory Board
Editorial Board is the think tank of the journal that are constituted by a group of prominent experts
who support the journal with the responsibility to:
- Provide suggestion to the Editor-in-Chief regarding to the scope and direction of the journal.
- Provide technical support and professional advice to promote scientific content of the journal.
- Recommend other experts to join Editorial Board.
- Review certain number of manuscript, especially when reviewers provide conflicting recommendations.
- Make decision on manuscripts, especially when Editor-in-Chief or other Academic Editors have conflicts of interest with authors.
- Be actively involved in discussion and finalization on strategic plan and long-term achievement of the journal with Editor-in-Chief and other Editorial Board members.
- Be actively involved in promoting the journal development and public awareness.
