Benefits, Roles & Responsibilities of Editors
Benefits as an Editor for Alcrut Publishing LLC
- Discounts on publication charges for Alcrut journals
- Certificate of appreciation from Alcrut, honored by the Editor-in-Chief at the end of the year
- Recognition as an editor for Alcrut Open Access journal
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF EDITOR
- Editor should encourage the submission of good quality manuscripts by referring authors/colleagues for manuscript submission
- Editors are requested to assign the reviewers for the manuscripts received from the editorial office. They can inform the editorial office if they are unavailable.
This enables us to assign the manuscript to other editors having similar research interest.
- Timely contribution to editorials/manuscripts for the release inaugural/upcoming issues of the journal
- Editor needs to check the quality of manuscript they have received from editorial office
- Editor needs to respond in timely manner to the editorial office and complete the review process within the provided timeline.
- There is no restriction for number of manuscripts to review. The editor can work according to his interest and time
- Editors should contribute for the development of journal by expressing their new thoughts and suggestions
- Editors have to take responsibility of monitoring the complete peer review process to maintain the quality and standard of the journal
- Editors should maintain contact with other editorial board members
- Editors need to maintain confidentiality and have to comply with data protection ethics
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Editor-in-Chief is the heads of the editorial board and decision maker of the journal, who is expert of the field and prominent.
The senior most editor who has complete obligation for the journal. Typical responsibilities of editors in chief include …
- Ensuring that content is journalistically objective
- Selection of papers and dynamically participate in review process
- Encouraging and developing editorial staff
- Prepare parameters to improve the standards of the journal
- Recommend potential contributors and reviewers to make the journal success
- Contributing papers, editorials and opinions for publication in the journal
- Endorse the journal at international events where you are a participant/organizing committee member
- Advise the journal to your friends, colleagues and students to receive submissions
- Organize special issues if time allows
- Rejecting the articles that appears to be plagiarized, ghost-written, published elsewhere, or of little interest to person who reads
- Assessing and editing content
- Supervision on reader complaints and taking responsibility for issues after publication