An inspirited Editorial Board Member is very crucial for the successful development of a journal. The major role of a journal editor is to increase the number of quality papers submitted in the specialist field associated with the journal, whilst also promoting the journal as the best journal to publish in.
- Providing appropriate content for the journal, which reflects leading international research and the latest thinking in the knowledge area
- Taking all the necessary steps to ensure confidentiality of the authors work, providing acknowledgement, informing that the submission will be evaluated according to the journal's standard procedures.
- Providing clear set of instructions for reviewers on the journal's standards and expectancy on the scope, quality, and timeliness of their reviews to promote thoughtful, fairness, constructive critique of the submitted work.
- Making final decision of acceptance of the article for publication.
- Maintaining the journal's integrity including the corrections/errata, retractions, supplemental data, and promotional material.
- Allowing constructive discussion on the scientific merits of a paper, for e.g., publishing letters to the editor, inviting commentaries, article blogs, or soliciting other forms of public discourse.
- Encouraging citations for the article published in the journals.
- Engaging in promotion of the journal at relevant conferences and to the interested colleagues.
Benefits of peer-review:
- Establishes the validity of research based upon the expert knowledge of other researchers with the same area of knowledge. Therefore preventing fabricated work from being accepted.
- Provides comprehensive review report so that researchers can revise and enhance their papers before publication.
- Provides comprehensive review report so that researchers can revise and enhance their papers before publication.
- Enables journal editors to select the most significant research articles for publication in their journals, based upon the standard and polices of the journal.