Editors

Editor Guidelines

Editorial responsibilities for fair assessment, confidentiality, peer review oversight, and integrity of the scholarly record.

Editors Editor Guidelines

Overview

Editor guidance defines how manuscripts, reviews, conflicts, corrections, and integrity concerns are handled.

Editorial decision-making

Editors assess submissions according to scope, scholarly merit, ethics, reporting quality, and reviewer advice.

  • Screen submissions for completeness, declarations, plagiarism risk, and journal fit.
  • Select qualified reviewers and manage reviewer conflicts.
  • Make decisions independently from payment, ownership, advertising, sponsorship, or personal influence.
  • Document decisions, revision requirements, and post-publication actions.

Integrity oversight

Editors protect the scholarly record before and after publication.

  • Request data, approvals, or author explanations when needed.
  • Use corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions where appropriate.
  • Manage appeals and complaints through documented routes.
  • Maintain confidentiality for authors, reviewers, and editorial discussions.

How this page is used

This information supports authors, reviewers, editors, conference contributors, and readers by making the Sciencevio publishing route clear before submission and consistent after publication.

Before submission

Use the policy to prepare declarations, files, permissions, ethics details, and journal or conference fit.

During review

Editors and reviewers use the policy to keep decisions consistent, documented, confidential, and independent.

After publication

Corrections, reuse, metadata, archiving, complaints, and record updates are handled according to the published policy route.