Responsibilities of Editors

Editors are responsible for maintaining the quality, fairness, independence, and integrity of the editorial process.

Editorial Decisions

Editorial decisions must be based on the academic quality, originality, relevance, methodological soundness, ethical compliance, and contribution of the manuscript.

Decisions must not be influenced by an author's nationality, gender, ethnicity, religion, institutional affiliation, political beliefs, or other irrelevant personal characteristics.

Initial Screening

Editors must conduct an initial screening to determine whether submitted manuscripts are consistent with the Journal's aims and scope, author guidelines, academic standards, and ethical requirements.

Manuscripts that clearly fail to meet the Journal's requirements may be declined before external peer review.

Peer Review

JCBE employs a double-blind peer-review process.

Manuscripts accepted for external review will normally be evaluated by at least two qualified peer reviewers with relevant expertise.

Editors are responsible for selecting appropriate reviewers and ensuring that the review process is fair, independent, confidential, and academically rigorous.

Confidentiality

Editors must maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts and information relating to authors and reviewers.

Unpublished information obtained through the editorial process must not be used for personal, academic, or commercial advantage.

Conflicts of Interest

Editors must not handle manuscripts where a conflict of interest may affect, or appear to affect, their impartiality.

In such cases, responsibility for the manuscript must be transferred to another qualified editor.

If an Editor or Editorial Board member submits a manuscript to JCBE, that individual must not participate in the editorial handling, reviewer selection, or decision-making process for that manuscript.

Publication Misconduct

Editors must take appropriate action when plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, duplicate publication, inappropriate authorship, citation manipulation, peer-review manipulation, unethical research, or other forms of publication misconduct are suspected.