In your role as an ISI journal Editor, you have four primary responsibilities:

  1. Manage the reviewers working on papers assigned to you. Occasionally, a reviewer may contact you with a question.
  2. For each review, rate the quality of that review on our 5-point scale.
  3. Make a recommendation to ‘reject’ or ‘accept subject to revisions’, and mentor the author via a ‘Development’ letter.
  4. Work directly with authors of papers you ‘accept subject to revision’ to get the paper into a publishable format.

You are never all by yourself. When you have questions or concerns, contact the Editor-in-Chief or Associate Editor-in-Chief who sent you your assignment letter.

Let’s now get into some more detail.