Policy for the Editor
- Quality Assurance: The editor is fully responsible for maintaining the academic and ethical quality of all published content in the journal.
- Decision Authority: The editor has complete authority to accept or reject a manuscript based on its originality, relevance, presentation, scholarly merit, and adherence to the journal’s scope and policies.
- Blind Peer Review: The editor ensures that each manuscript is evaluated through a rigorous double-blind peer review process to uphold academic standards.
- Plagiarism Check: The editor conducts a thorough plagiarism screening of every submission in compliance with the HEC Plagiarism Policy.
- Editorial Independence: The editor operates independently and makes editorial decisions without influence from institutions, sponsors, or political affiliations.
- Impartial Evaluation: The editor does not discriminate against any author based on gender, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, political belief, institutional affiliation, or academic rank.
- Corrections and Retractions: The editor is responsible for issuing corrections, clarifications, retractions, or apologies when errors, ethical concerns, or misrepresentations are identified in published work.
- Conflict of Interest Management: The editor will not handle any manuscript with which they have a personal or professional conflict of interest.
- Reviewer Transparency: The editor ensures that reviewers disclose any potential conflicts of interest prior to evaluating a manuscript.
- Confidentiality Assurance: The editor safeguards the confidentiality of all submitted manuscripts and review reports before publication.
- Timely Communication: The editor responds to authors and reviewers in a timely, transparent, and professional manner throughout the submission and review process.
- Manuscript Integrity: The editor evaluates all submissions solely on academic merit, avoiding any personal bias or external pressure.
- Reviewer Selection: The editor is responsible for selecting qualified and unbiased reviewers appropriate to the subject matter of the manuscript.
- Editorial Board Management: The editor has the authority to appoint, modify, or remove members of the Editorial and Advisory Boards as needed.
- Editorial Board Meetings: The editor organizes and leads regular editorial board meetings to ensure policy updates, workflow efficiency, and strategic growth.
- Policy Enforcement: The editor ensures that the journal’s editorial and ethical policies are consistently followed by all contributors and stakeholders.
- Author Support: The editor provides guidance to authors on submission requirements and responds constructively to queries regarding manuscript revisions and decisions.
- Review Quality Monitoring: The editor assesses the quality of peer reviews and provides feedback to reviewers to maintain high reviewing standards.
- Research Integrity: The editor actively works to identify and prevent research misconduct, including data fabrication, falsification, and unethical research practices.
- Promoting Academic Dialogue: The editor promotes the journal as a platform for constructive scholarly exchange and interdisciplinary dialogue in the humanities, management, and social sciences.