Editors Policies
Editor’s conscience- Editors should encourage their journal’s reviewers, authors, and professionals by ensuring their journal’s activities go right conduct with honest editorial teams, reviewer’s selection, review timelines, acceptance rate, and its exercising authority are crystal clear.
- Editors should maintain the confidentiality of the journal’s organizing practices and should thank the reviewers for their extensive support in spending their valuable time.
- Editors must prevent partiality by managing conflicts of interest, and be able to distinguish editorial and business activities
- Editors are responsible in the improvising quality of their journal by practicing research ethics, best peer-review, structured editing, also in conducting programs to evaluate the journal's operation periodically
Editors recommend following the continuous evaluation of manuscript that which has to be ethically conducted, is materially sound with a clear and complete report.
Editors are responsible for making corrections as necessary to maintain integrity in scientific research published and should retract publications if found unethical
Editors should follow lodgments of misconduct towards research, reviewers, and co-editors involved in the issue until it gets resolved
Responsible for disseminating and establishing clear and fair policies for editors, researchers, and reviewers; should consider potential conflicts of interest for editors and reviewers; should accountable in the prevention of conflicts of interest from affecting journal decision making. Should keen on maintaining respectable relationships with individuals, ensure integrity in professional relationships with stakeholders, and should not exercise misconduct using their positions for personal gain
Should uphold the reputation of their journals following ethical behavior and realize the need to cure knowledge deficits in person and their co-editors
We should verify editorial independence from publishers, owners, corporations, industries, laboratories and other scientific groups that may possess potential conflicts of interest.
Should publish the best research through detailed editing; judging journal processes, reviewing journal publication metrics, employing infrequent quality improvement, measuring journal and article impact, reacting to reviewers, authors and reader feedback, ensuring protection of journal content, and exerting board (editor, reviewer) members and author relationships with eminent researchers in the fields similar to their journals.
Should deal with medicine and health-related problems, and misconduct that is relevant to the journal's readers; build the journal approachable to as many readers as possible; and look for the activity of authors, reviewers, and editorial board members from low and middle-income countries.