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EDITORIAL BOARD POLICY
An Editorial Board offers valuable content, expert
guidance, inspires new authors and encourages submissions. The Editorial Board
committee has a team of editors who are subject matter experts. Following are
our Editorial Board policies based on the COPE’s Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers policy:
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The Editorial Board
has ultimate responsibility for deciding whether a manuscript submitted to
journal should be published, and in doing so is guided by the journal’s
policies as determined by the Editorial Board.
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The Editorial Board
must evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to the
race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnic origin,
citizenship, or political philosophy of the author(s).
o
Editorial Board should
not disclose any information about a manuscript under consideration to anyone
other than the author(s), reviewers and potential reviewers.
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The Editorial Board
must persistently make every effort to ensure the integrity of the blind review
process by not revealing the identity of the author(s) of a manuscript to the
reviewers of that manuscript, and vice versa.
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Editorial Board should
request that invited peer reviewers inform them if they delegate peer review.
o Editorial Board should only ask authors to add citations to their papers when there is a strong scholarly rationale for this.
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