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Editorial Recruitment Workflow
PURPOSE
Generally, the functioning of the journal is supervised by an Editorial Board, which consists of distinguished and qualified researchers in the field who contribute by inviting participation and offering expert views on the suitability of submissions. The Editorial Board consists of the following critical positions.
Editor-in-Chief:The Editor-in-Chief provides overall academic and strategic leadership of the journal by defining its scope and editorial policies, ensuring a rigorous and ethical peer-review process, making final publication decisions, and maintaining high scholarly standards. The EIC oversees and guides the editorial board, ensures timely publication, fosters strong relationships with authors and reviewers, and actively works to enhance the journal’s visibility and quality.
Deputy Editor:
The Deputy Editor supports the Editor-in-Chief in implementing the journal’s vision and policies, overseeing editorial operations, and ensuring the quality and consistency of the peer-review process. They manage associate editors, handle manuscripts and editorial decisions when delegated, and contribute to the journal’s strategic development, including workflow efficiency.
Associate Editors:
Associate Editors manage the peer-review process for assigned manuscripts by selecting reviewers, evaluating reports, and making recommendations on publication decisions. They ensure timely, fair, and high-quality reviews while contributing to the journal’s academic standards, scope development, and visibility through active engagement with the research community.
Editorial Board Members:
The Editorial Board consists of a committee of researchers with expertise in the relevant field.
Editorial board members are expected to:- Carry out peer-reviewing of submitted manuscripts
- Assess submissions based on the policy and scope of the journal
- Organize publication of thematic issues
- Invite new authors and submissions
- Provide editorials for thematic issues organized under their Guest Editorship
- Assist in identifying peer-reviewers suitable to a specific topic and provide second opinions on papers in case of reviewer's conflict
- Suggest appropriate conferences for the editors to attend
- Assist in the announcement of the journal amongst authors, readers, and subscribers and encourage colleagues to submit their best work
- Suggest competent board members
- Carry out submitted manuscript peer-reviewing
- Submit/Solicit review/research manuscript to the journal
Selection Criteria:
We believe that the Editorial Board plays an essential role in the progress of a journal, and the success of our journal owes a lot to our competent editorial board.
Scholars from different regions worldwide are chosen for the Editorial Board to serve the journal with dedication and conviction.
The members are selected as per the following criteria:
· Geographical diversity
· Relevance of expertise
· specific number of publications to their credit
· Eminence as per their posts in key research institutes
Guest editors, previous authors, or peer-reviewers who have worked for the journal, or are endorsed by other board members may be considered for inclusion in the Editorial Board.
When invited to the editorial board, potential candidates must provide a brief description of their responsibilities and a clear statement that their post is voluntary and without remuneration.
Editorial Recruitment Workflow
PURPOSE
Generally, the functioning of the journal is supervised by an Editorial Board composed of distinguished and qualified researchers in the field, who contribute by inviting participation and offering expert opinions on the suitability of submissions. The Editorial Board includes the following key positions.
Editor-in-Chief:
The Editor-in-Chief provides overall academic and strategic leadership of the journal by defining its scope and editorial policies, ensuring a rigorous and ethical peer-review process, making final publication decisions, and maintaining high scholarly standards. The EiC oversees and guides the editorial board, ensures timely publication, fosters strong relationships with authors and reviewers, and actively works to enhance the journal’s visibility and quality.
Associate Editors:
Associate Editors manage the peer-review process for assigned manuscripts by selecting reviewers, evaluating reports, and making recommendations on publication decisions. They ensure timely, fair, and high-quality reviews while contributing to the journal’s academic standards, scope development, and visibility through active engagement with the research community.
EDITORIAL RECRUITMENT WORKFLOW:
Editorial board members are expected to:
- Assess submissions based on the policy and scope of the journal
- Organize publication of thematic issues
- Provide editorials for thematic issues organized under their Guest Editorship
- Assist in identifying peer-reviewers suitable to a specific topic and provide second opinions on papers in case of reviewer's conflict
- Suggest appropriate conferences for the editors to attend
- Assist in the announcement of the journal amongst authors, readers, and subscribers; and encourage colleagues to submit their best work
- Suggest competent board members
- Carry out submitted manuscript peer-reviewing
- Submit/Solicit review/research manuscript to the journal
Selection Criteria:
We believe that the Editorial Board plays an essential role in the progress of a journal, and the success of our journal owes a lot to our competent editorial board.
Scholars from different regions worldwide are chosen for the Editorial Board to serve the journal with dedication and conviction.
The members are selected as per the following criteria:
· Geographical diversity
· Relevance of expertise
· specific number of publications to their credit
· Eminence as per their posts in key research institutes
Guest editors, previous authors, or peer-reviewers who have worked for the journal, or are endorsed by other board members may be considered for inclusion in the Editorial Board.
When invited to the editorial board, potential candidates must provide a brief description of their responsibilities and a clear statement that their post is voluntary and without remuneration.
Publication Fee
Lifescience Global Canada Inc. is committed to disseminating research and scholarly publications as widely as possible. It supports the principle that 'the study results that have been publicly funded should be freely accessible in the public domain. Therefore, it encourages researchers to make their research available through Open Access (OA).
Open access publishing is not without costs. Lifescience Global Canada Inc. provides open access publications partly pay the expenses of journal production, online hosting, and archiving from authors and their research supporters by charging a publication fee for each article they publish.
After editorial approval and peer review, all submitted manuscripts are subject to an article-processing fee for OPEN ACCESS papers covering the cost of production.
Standard OPEN ACCESS article processing fee = US$ 630
Inclusive Bank Charges
Plagiarism Prevention
Plagiarism Prevention Policy:
Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, and by submitting the article for publication, the authors agree that International Journal of Criminology and Sociology has the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors if plagiarism or fabricated information is discovered.
International Journal of Criminology and Sociology uses advanced soft wares to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. These soft wares check the content against a database of periodicals, Internet, and a comprehensive article database. It generates a similarity report, highlighting the percentage overlap between the uploaded article and the already published material. Any piece of content overlap is further examined for suspected plagiarism according to the International Journal of Criminology and Sociology Editorial Policies. International Journal of Criminology and Sociology allows an overall similarity of 20% for a manuscript to be acknowledged for publication. The similarity percentage is further checked keeping the following important points in view:
Types of Plagiarism: We all understand that scholarly manuscripts are drafted after a careful review of previously published articles. It is therefore, not easy to draw a clear boundary between legitimate representation and plagiarism; and authors may be prone to practice plagiarism, although unintentionally. However, the following important features can assist the authors in identifying different kinds of plagiarized content.
- Reproduction of others' words, sentences, ideas, or findings as one's own without proper acknowledgment.
- Text recycling, also known as self-plagiarism: Here, the author reuses his/her own work from a former publication without proper citation and acknowledgment of the original source.
- Poor paraphrasing, copying complete paragraphs, and modifying a few words without changing the structure of original sentences, or changing the sentence structure but not the words.
- Word-for-word copying of text without placing quotation marks and not acknowledging the work of original author.
- Correctly citing a work but poorly paraphrasing the original text is considered unintentional plagiarism. Similarly, manuscripts using both paraphrasing and quoting for a similar idea are not acceptable. Authors should either paraphrase properly, or quote and, in both cases, cite the original source.
Authors are hence, suggested to check for all of the above instances before final submission of their articles to the journal.
Plagiarism in Published Manuscripts: Published manuscripts containing plagiarized text are retracted from the journal website after careful investigation and approval by the Journal's Editor-in-Chief. A 'Retraction Note'(briefly describing the reason for retraction) and a link to the original study are published with the plagiarized manuscript on journal’s website.
Publication Fee
Lifescience Global Canada Inc. is committed to disseminating research and scholarly publications as widely as possible. It supports the principle that 'the study results that have been publicly funded should be freely accessible in the public domain. Therefore, it encourages researchers to make their research available through Open Access (OA).
Open access publishing is not without costs. Lifescience Global Canada Inc. provides open access publications partly pay the expenses of journal production, online hosting, and archiving from authors and their research supporters by charging a publication fee for each article they publish.
After editorial approval and peer review, all submitted manuscripts are subject to an article-processing fee for OPEN ACCESS papers covering the cost of production.
Standard OPEN ACCESS article processing fee = US$ 530
Inclusive Bank Charges