The Editor’s Roles
The Editor’s Roles
1. The editor must initially consider the article’s quality without personal biases in all aspects before entering the assessment process.
2. The editor must not take into account any personal interests that may or may be desirable from accepting the article for publication.
3. Over the entire process of assessment, the editor is required to maintain information about the assessment of the article, without disclosing the information to unrelated persons that can lead to discrediting both the author and the journal.
4. If the work is found guilty for copying while in an assessment process, the editor must immediately stop the assessment and contact the corresponding author for clarification. Doing so will help the editor decide whether to continue accepting it for publication or reject it.