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

Editor-in-Chief

  • Be actively involved in promoting the journal development and public awareness
  • Decide development strategy of the journal each year
  • Determine scope and direction of the journal
  • Maintaining content quality and integrity
  • Managing the editorial team
  • Navigating the digital landscape
  • Pre-check and make decision on manuscripts and to ensure quality of publications
  • Provide feedback timely and to launch the journal with editorial team’s assistance
  • Recommend editorial board members
  • Setting the editorial vision and direction
  • Skills required for success
  • Supervise the journal in technique and to improve its scientific content
  • The public face of the publication

Editors

  • Ensure a supply of high-quality manuscripts to Elsevier in quantities that are able to maintain the publishing schedule of the journal. If insufficient manuscripts are being submitted, then you should discuss how to address this with your publishing contact
  • Ensure that the subject matter of the manuscripts reflects any changes of direction in the field of study to incorporate newly-emerging work (this may necessitate inviting articles or special issues)
  • Conduct your activities in accordance with generally accepted industry standards for integrity and objectivity and with the policies of the journal and the publisher. We further recommend that you consult the COPE short guide to ethical editingopens in new tab/window
  • Select the Editorial Board, in co-operation with your publishing contact
  • Continually engage the Editorial Board on the progress of the journal and update and include them on ideas for editorial development. The Editorial Board should be involved formally through an annual Editorial Board meeting or informally in ad hoc meetings and discussions
  • Provide strategic input into your journal’s development. Your publishing contact will be in touch regularly to report on the journal’s performance and suggest possible strategies for development, as well as discuss your suggestions
  • Carefully review communications we send you regarding industry & company developments, and information and advice, all relevant to your role
  • Highlight commercial advertising, supplement, and reprint opportunities, if these form important sources of income for your journal
  • Promote the journal to peers and colleagues

Board of Advisory Editors

  • 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