For Editors

1. Editor-in-Chief Responsibilities

The Editor-in-Chief, being the primary editorial leader of the publication, will collaborate with the editorial team to ensure a high-quality experience for both authors and readers. The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Clearly and unambiguously define the goals and scope of the journal.
• Supervise the operations and policies of the publishing process.
• Evaluate the scholarly content of the journal for rigor and authenticity.
• Attend meetings with publishers or publication committees to promote the journal.
• Maintain communication with the Editorial Board to aid the editorial team in efficiently managing the journal.
• Demonstrate the ability to offer guidance and counsel to the editor when necessary.

2. Editorial Board Responsibilities

The Editorial Board members are also an integral part of participating in the operation of a journal and can assist in a variety of ways, including but not limited to:

• Working closely with the editor and other members of the Editorial Board to establish the editorial vision, policies, and practices of the journal.
• Providing expertise, advice, and assistance in assessing the editor.
• Supplying scientific expertise to the journal and offering timely advice.
• Promoting the journal to authors and readers by soliciting or accepting high-quality manuscripts annually.
• Identifying potential reviewers and providing assistance to editors.
• Pre-screening new submissions and making decisions regarding their research expertise.
• Recommending whether the submitted articles should be sent out for peer review.

The Editorial Board members are appointed for a preliminary term of one year, which can be extended. Members of the Editorial Board may opt to resign at any time if they find themselves overwhelmed by the demands of the journal's Editorial Board.

Note: The editorial board policy applies to young editorial board members.

3. Guest Editor Responsibilities/Guest Editing a Special Issue

Special Issues are typically edited by a Guest Editor who invites colleagues from the same field of study to publish on a topic within their area of expertise, thereby facilitating the exchange of prominent scholars from around the world. It is worth noting that the acceptance or rejection of a Guest Editor's own papers will be decided by the Editor-in-Chief or another Editorial Board approved by the Editor-in-Chief.

The Guest Editor's responsibilities include:

• Working with the editorial board to prepare descriptions and keywords for their Special Issue.
• Collaborating with the journal on publicity and preparing editorials to open or close the Issue.
• Pre-screening, overseeing the entire peer review process, and making decisions on new submissions for the issue.

4. Editorial Process, Peer-Review and Production

All submissions to the journal published by Forum Multimedia Publishing are initially reviewed by the Editor-in-Chief or another Editorial Board/Guest Editor approved by the Editor-in-Chief. At this stage, manuscripts may be rejected without peer review (double anonymized) if it is felt that they are not of high enough quality, priority, or relevance to the journals. Manuscripts that are not instantly rejected are sent out for double-anonymized peer review, usually to at least two independent reviewers. Based on the feedback from these reviewers and the Editors' judgment, a decision is made on the manuscript. See more details about the Editorial Process and Peer-Review.

We will produce all accepted manuscripts, which includes editing, typesetting, and conversion to XML. Language editing will be carried out by a professional English editor. Therefore, we strongly recommend authors undertake English editing before publication or during the revision period, and provide proof of this to the editorial office.

5. Process for in-House Submissions

Editorials, news and interview articles written by the journal's editors do not undergo external peer review. However, articles written by the editors that report original research, analysis or other content will be subject to peer review. Any such submissions are subject to all the regular procedures of the journal, and peer review is independent of the editors involved and their research teams. For example, articles from the Editor-in-Chief will be assigned to an Associate Editor-in-Chief or, in the absence of an Associate Editor-in-Chief, to Editorial Board members with relevant expertise.

To ensure impartiality in decision-making and to avoid any potential conflict of interest, editors will not be involved in decision-making for manuscripts related to products or services in which they have an interest or other perceived conflicts of interest.

Additionally, if the manuscript is accepted, we will also ask the authors to indicate in a footnote the appropriate conflict of interest (e.g., relationship to the journal, whether sponsorship is included, etc.). Here is an example: XXX is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal, and XXX declares no conflict of interest by not participating in the peer review process. Author XXX is responsible for all content of the manuscript.

6. Editorial Responsibilities

The Editorial Board Members or Guest Editors of a journal will adhere to the editorial policies of Forum Multimedia Publishing and will not use the journal for their own purposes, such as promoting themselves, their colleagues, or their own institutions, or engaging in schemes to accept bribes or other unethical practices that do not meet Forum Multimedia Publishing publication quality requirements. The Editorial Board Members will have complete responsibility and authority to accept a submitted paper for publication or to reject it. The Editorial Board Members may confer with Guest Editors for an evaluation to use in making this decision.

An Editorial Board Members or Guest Editors should give prompt and unbiased consideration to all manuscripts offered for publication, judging each on its merits without regard to race, gender, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors, and respecting the intellectual independence of the authors. Situations that may lead to real or perceived conflicts of interest should be avoided.

The Editorial Board Members or Guest Editors should not disclose any information about a manuscript under consideration to anyone other than reviewers and potential reviewers. Unpublished information, arguments, or interpretations disclosed in a submitted manuscript should not be used in an editor’s or reviewer’s own research except with the consent of the author.

An editor presented with convincing evidence that the substance or conclusions of a published paper are erroneous should promote the publication of a correction or retraction.

7. Editorial Independence

Editorial independence dictates that a decision to accept, revise, or reject a manuscript is based on the scientific merit of the article but not any other relations, for example, pressure from the publisher to the journal editor. This means that Editor is independent in their decision and will not be under the pressure of any influential body or organization.

Our editorial policy is consistent with the principles of editorial independence presented by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).

Updated on January 5, 2026