Editors' Responsibilites

Editors are responsible for:

• deciding whether or not the submitted manuscript falls within the scope of the journal and is of enough quality to be sent out to reviewers;
• handling the review process of submitted manuscripts and taking the final decision whether accepted or rejected;
• protecting authors’ confidentiality and handling submitted manuscripts without revealing its data to anyone outside the review process;
• ensuring a fair, unbiased, objective, and honest peer review process of submitted manuscripts in a timely manner;
• selecting the most suitable reviewers to review the submitted manuscript;
• keeping the reviewers’ identities anonymous to be in line with our single-blinded review process policy;
• ensuring that accepted manuscripts are original, novel, and interesting; and
• replying to the authors’ appeal against the rejections.