Editor Guidelines

Editors must maintain strict impartiality in all editorial decisions. They are prohibited from handling any article where a financial or non-financial competing interest could potentially bias their judgment or actions.

• Editors as Authors: An editor is permitted to publish an article in their own journal.
• Non-Involvement in Peer Review: When an ISRN editor is a (co-)author of a submitted paper; they must not be involved in or intervene in any form with that paper's peer review and decision-making process.
• Guest Editor Assignment: In such cases, the Editor-in-Chief will ensure the manuscript is assigned to a guest handling editor—someone who is not an associate editor or the Editor-in-Chief of ISRN.
• Full Disclosure: The author-editor’s affiliation with the journal and their lack of involvement in the submission’s peer review will be explicitly disclosed in the final Declaration of Competing Interests.

Confidentiality and Trustworthiness

Editors have a profound responsibility to protect the integrity of the publishing process and the intellectual work submitted to the journal.

• Strict Confidentiality: All documents and information submitted to the journal must be treated as strictly confidential.
• Respect for Intellectual Property: Editors must respect and safeguard the intellectual property rights of both the authors and the reviewers.