Editor Guidelines
Comprehensive responsibilities and best practices for editors handling nanotechnology manuscript reviews and editorial decisions.
Editorial Excellence and Integrity
Editors play a critical, essential role in maintaining the scientific quality and integrity of published nanotechnology research. These comprehensive guidelines ensure consistent, fair, and efficient manuscript handling aligned with international publishing standards and COPE recommendations for ethical editorial practice.
Academic editors serve as scientific gatekeepers ensuring only rigorous, original, and significant nanotechnology research reaches publication. Effective editors balance thoroughness with efficiency, maintaining high standards while respecting author and reviewer time throughout the evaluation process.
Manuscript Assessment
- Evaluate scope alignment with journal coverage
- Check submission completeness and formatting
- Screen for obvious quality or ethics issues
- Identify potential reviewer conflicts
- Assign appropriate expert reviewers
- Make desk rejection decisions when warranted
Review Process Management
- Monitor review timelines proactively
- Send timely reminder communications
- Recruit replacement reviewers when needed
- Evaluate and weigh reviewer feedback
- Make informed editorial decisions
- Communicate decisions professionally
Author Communication
- Communicate decisions clearly and constructively
- Provide actionable revision guidance
- Handle appeals professionally and fairly
- Maintain strict manuscript confidentiality
- Respond to author queries promptly
- Support author improvement and development
Editorial decisions must be based solely on scientific merit, methodological rigor, originality, and significance to the nanotechnology research community. Decisions should be made independently of commercial interests, personal relationships, or author characteristics unrelated to manuscript quality. All decisions must be documented and defensible based on reviewer recommendations and objective assessment.
Decision options and guidance: Accept for publication, minor revision required, major revision required, reject with resubmission possible, or reject without reconsideration. Each decision letter should provide clear rationale with specific improvement guidance enabling authors to strengthen their work or understand the basis for rejection.
Editors must maintain strict confidentiality regarding all manuscript content and review communications. Conflicts of interest must be disclosed and managed appropriately, with editors recusing themselves from handling manuscripts where objectivity cannot be assured. Suspected plagiarism, data fabrication, or other misconduct should be reported immediately to the editorial office for COPE-guided investigation and appropriate institutional notification if confirmed.
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