Responsibilities of Editors

All editorial board members are committed to a unified set of procedural duties designed to safeguard the integrity of the scholarly research process:

• Rigorous Vetting and Selection of Reviewers: Exercising strict scrutiny when selecting external reviewers who possess precise expertise in the manuscript's specific sub-field. Editors must verify reviewers' official institutional and academic communication channels to mitigate the risk of fraudulent peer review and prevent the assignment of manuscripts to fabricated or compromised accounts.
• Management of the Peer-Review Workflow: Overseeing the double-blind peer-review process with meticulous diligence to ensure absolute impartiality, neutrality, and objectivity throughout the evaluation cycle.
• Monitoring and Verifying Manuscript Revisions: Methodically tracking the revisions requested from authors and rigorously verifying that all mandatory modifications, structural updates, and scholarly requirements have been satisfactorily implemented prior to final publication clearance.
• Ethical Compliance Enforcement: Enforcing the journal’s established publication ethics policies. Editors are responsible for verifying that all necessary institutional review board (IRB) approvals, ethical clearances, and formal regulatory licenses have been secured for empirical fieldwork, audience surveys, and media content analysis experiments.