Editor Guidelines

Editors play a central role in maintaining the quality, integrity, and credibility of the journal. They are responsible for managing the peer-review process and making fair, unbiased, and timely decisions on submitted manuscripts.

Editorial Responsibility and Independence

• Editors must evaluate manuscripts solely on the basis of scientific merit, originality, clarity, and relevance to the journal’s scope. • Decisions should not be influenced by the authors’ nationality, institutional affiliation, gender, or personal characteristics. • Editors must maintain full editorial independence from the publisher and any external influences.

Confidentiality

• Editors must treat all submitted manuscripts as confidential documents. • Information about a submitted manuscript must not be disclosed to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, editorial advisors, and the publisher as appropriate. • Unpublished materials must not be used for personal research without written permission from the author.

Peer Review Management

• Editors are responsible for selecting qualified and unbiased reviewers with relevant expertise. • The journal follows a single-blind peer-review process (reviewers remain anonymous). • Editors must ensure that reviews are conducted fairly, objectively, and within a reasonable timeframe. • Where necessary, additional reviewers may be invited to ensure a balanced evaluation.

Ethical Oversight

• Ensure that all research involving human participants or animals includes appropriate ethical approval and informed consent statements. • Address potential ethical issues such as plagiarism, duplicate submission, data fabrication, falsification, or image manipulation. • Take appropriate action in cases of suspected misconduct, including corrections, retractions, or expressions of concern where necessary.

Conflicts of Interest

• Editors must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest (financial, institutional, collaborative, or personal). • Such manuscripts should be reassigned to another qualified editor.

Transparency and Integrity

• Editorial decisions must be clearly communicated to authors with constructive feedback. • Editors should promote transparency in reporting standards and adherence to recognized research guidelines. • Corrections, retractions, and updates must be published promptly when required.

Timeliness

Editors should ensure efficient manuscript handling and strive to provide authors with timely decisions while maintaining rigorous review standards.