Editors play a vital role in journal publishing by ensuring the development of high-quality published research in their subject fields.

The editor is expected to actively engage with editorial board members and corresponding authors regularly. Editors have the right to seek assistance from esteemed editorial board members, and may invite other members if required. Editorial board members are required to review a fixed, set minimum number of submitted manuscripts annually, based on their expertise.

Maintaining the journal’s standards and the quality of its papers are the primary responsibilities of the editor. In addition to this, the editor ensures that the content is accessible and engaging for the target audience.

The editor of the journal has to focus on many fronts, these are:

• Overseeing the submission and review process to make sure the publication of high quality papers
• Clear instructions to authors during manuscript submission
• Adherence to the double-blind, peer-review process and publication policy
• Addressing misconduct and handling complaints

For more details, please download all the guidelines and editor -related responsibilities: (https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/short-guide-ethical-editing-new-editors)

Reviewer Misconduct

• Misrepresentation or information distortion in the review report
• Deliberate slowness of the peer-review process
• The rejection and criticism of the manuscript grounded unreasonably on non-scientific criteria. Including personal or ad hominem attacks against the author(s)
• Violation of confidentiality of the review report
• Proposing edits that seem to solely endorse the reviewer’s own references
• Utilizing ideas from a manuscript currently under review process

In any such instance, the associate editor or handling editor is required to report to the EIC or publisher