Editorial Team Roles

Chief Executive Editor

  • Defining and executing the editorial strategy of a publication
  • Develop content ideas
  • Hiring, managing, and mentoring a team of editors, writers, and other content creators.
  • Manage editorial staff
  • Monitor and evaluate content performance
  • Review and approve content
  • Reviewing and approving all content before publication, ensuring that it meets the standards of quality, accuracy, and style
  • Stay updated and innovative, developing a vision and a plan for the website that aligns with the platform’s goals and audience needs
  • Working with other executives and stakeholders to optimize the website’s performance, reach, and revenue; and staying updated on the latest trends and developments in the online publishing industry and adapting the website accordingly

Founder & Managing Editor

  • Build relationships inside the business
  • Develop and execute content strategy
  • Ensure all those roles stay filled and that everyone works together seamlessly
  • Hiring and overseeing a variety of content roles, including freelancers and part-timers
  • Make content decisions with the business in mind
  • Oversee the content creation process

Editorial Board

  • Attend editorial meetings and assist in strategic decision-making
  • Help the journal attract high-quality manuscripts by promoting the journal at relevant conferences and workshops
  • May be designated by the editor-in-chief to act as a handling editor on relevant articles and oversee the review and editorial decision-making process
  • Provide feedback and suggestions for the improvements of the journal
  • Provide scientific expertise for the journal
  • Serve as peer reviewer on selected articles
  • Suggest topics and authors for commissioned reviews and commentaries

International Advisory Board

  • Be actively involved in discussion and finalization on strategic plan and long-term achievement of the journal with editor-in-chief and other editorial board members
  • Be actively involved in promoting the journal development and public awareness
  • Make decision on manuscripts, especially when Editor-in-Chief or other academic editors have conflicts of interest with authors
  • Provide suggestion to the editor-in-chief regarding to the scope and direction of the journal
  • Provide technical support and professional advice to promote scientific content of the journal
  • Recommend other experts to join editorial board
  • Review certain number of manuscript, especially when reviewers provide conflicting recommendations

Production Editor

  • Avoid outdated/invalid methods, even if pre-specified in the protocol
  • Ensure that all copy editing is done properly then send to the publisher for the final production stage
  • Provide statistical direction to the journal
  • To ensure that the statistical tests used were appropriate, the results are properly interpreted and reported
  • Validating statistical methodology, trends and results

Webmaster

  • Address user complaints, collaborate with team members, and stay updated on web standards and technologies to deliver functional and user-friendly websites
  • Builds, maintains, and troubleshoots websites, tests their compatibility across different platforms, and monitors online traffic and performance
  • Configure and manage web servers, implement security measures, and review search engine optimization (SEO) to enhance website visibility
  • ensure the functionality, security, and efficiency of web infrastructure while optimizing loading speeds, fixing issues, and updating website content
  • Maintaining and managing websites and servers to meet user needs