The editors of the CLRS Journal of Global Justice & Governance are trusted to run the journal’s publishing process with integrity, fairness and transparency. These guidelines, in line with the guidance of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), set out the responsibilities and standards that apply to every member of the Editorial Board.
Responsibilities
- Handling manuscripts: oversee the submission, review and decision on each paper assigned to you, promptly and impartially.
- Quality: make sure that what the journal publishes meets its scholarly standards, falls within its aims and scope, and follows its submission and ethical guidelines.
- Peer review: choose qualified, independent reviewers and oversee the double-blind review described in the Peer review policy.
- Decisions: decide to accept, revise or reject on the strength of the reports, your own reading of the paper and the journal’s mission.
- Running the journal: work with the Editor-in-Chief and the rest of the board to keep the journal’s policies consistent and its standing high.
Ethical standards
- Integrity of research: make sure that what is published rests on accurate legal analysis, credible evidence and unbiased scholarship.
- Conflicts of interest: declare any personal, financial or professional conflict, such as earlier collaboration with an author, to the Editor-in-Chief, and take no part in that paper.
- Confidentiality: keep submissions, reviewers’ identities and editorial correspondence confidential throughout.
- Fairness: judge each paper only on its academic merit, without regard to the authors’ identity, institution or nationality.
Particular situations
- Allegations of misconduct: act promptly on suspected plagiarism, falsification or other breaches, following the Publication ethics policy, and consult the Editor-in-Chief and, where needed, outside experts or institutions.
- Authorship: check that the authorship of each paper meets the journal’s criteria, and refer disputes that cannot be resolved to the Complaints and appeals process.
- After publication: handle corrections, expressions of concern and retractions openly, as the Publication ethics policy sets out.
- Intellectual property: make sure that submissions respect copyright and the journal’s licence, and that nothing is reproduced without permission.
Conduct
- Respond promptly to authors, reviewers and fellow editors.
- Record every decision, and give authors clear and constructive reasons, especially when asking for revisions or declining a paper.
- Take part in resolving appeals and complaints when asked, so that every party has a fair hearing.
Guidance
Editors should be familiar with the Peer review policy, the Guidelines for reviewers and the Publication ethics policy. For difficult cases, consult the Editor-in-Chief or COPE’s flowcharts and guidance. Questions may be sent to editor.jgjg@academyclrs.org with the subject “Editorial query”.