Editor Guidelines

Editors are responsible for ensuring a fair, independent, confidential, and academically rigorous editorial process.

Editors should:

Evaluate submissions based on scholarly merit, originality, relevance, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and fit with the journal's scope.

Conduct initial editorial screening before external peer review.

Select reviewers with appropriate expertise and without relevant conflicts of interest.

Protect the confidentiality of authors, reviewers, manuscripts, and editorial correspondence.

Consider reviewer recommendations together with independent editorial judgment.

Ensure that commercial considerations, publication charges, sponsorship, or institutional relationships do not influence editorial decisions.

Manage conflicts of interest and recuse themselves where impartiality may reasonably be questioned.

Investigate credible allegations of plagiarism, data fabrication, authorship misconduct, citation manipulation, or other ethical violations.

Issue corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions when necessary to preserve the integrity of the scholarly record.

Ensure that editorial decisions and communications are recorded accurately in OJS.