Editor Guidelines

Each Editor of the Editorial Board plays a vital role in maintaining the journal standards and peer review. Editorial boards are an essential and valuable resource for TGC journals. Our editors are experts in their respective fields and are responsible for the peer review process and the content of the journal.

Instructions for the Editors:

Editors should significantly maintain and improve the Journal's standards by handling the quality peer review process.
Their role is to handle the peer review of manuscripts, make recommendations on the acceptance or rejection of a paper and attract high-quality submissions.
Their part is to choose the appropriate reviewers in a particular area to improve the manuscript's quality.
The editor should decide whether the manuscripts submitted are suitable for the journal's scope or not, which is eventually followed by a review process by at least two experts and the editor handling the manuscript.
Acceptance and rejection of articles for publication are based on the final decision of the editor.
Misconduct and unethical behaviour may be identified and brought to the attention of the editor and publisher at any time by anyone.
Reviewers should inform the Editor if the manuscript has already been reviewed by them for any other journal or publication group and seek guidance on whether to carry it further or not.
Reviewers should notify the Editor instantly if they find any partial or whole information in the manuscript that is plagiarized or infringed.
Reviewers must notify the Editor if they have any concerns about the study, ethical aspects or misconduct in the manuscript.
Reviewers should not attempt to communicate with the authors regarding the manuscript without the permission from the Editor.

Responsibilities

Each and every Editor of the Editorial Board plays an important role in the peer review process and in maintaining journal standards. Editors should evaluate the submitted manuscript to determine whether it is within the scope of the journal and should determine the following points:

Editors must ensure the quality of each manuscript. This includes ensuring that the content is original and that the scientific facts are valid.
Editors must ensure that the work rendered meets internationally approved ethical guidelines. There must be a proper citation and the original source of the content should be named.
The TGC Editorial Board will protect all confidential data regarding manuscript submissions. If the author has used information involving human subjects, the Editorial Board must ensure that the author obtained written consent.
The editor will assign the reviewer for the submitted manuscript based on the area of interest.
The editor is the final decision-maker for acceptance or rejection of the article based on the review comments.
If needed editor has to review the manuscript for the second time when the author submits the revised manuscript. The author will receive the review comments based on which the revised manuscript has to be submitted.
The article will be rejected if it is not suitable for publication. The editor gives the comments on the rejection to the author.
An editor should give an unbiased decision to all manuscripts based on the quality of the manuscript.
The manuscript information should not be disclosed by the editor and the editorial staff to anyone other than reviewers.
The editor should not use unpublished information or interpretations in a submitted manuscript except with the author's consent.
If needed/recommended, submissions will undergo a second round of review, where an editor will ask the author to resubmit for the second revision. The author shall receive the decision along with the comments and recommendations from the reviewers.
The editors must ensure all the published articles are properly and permanently archived in databases such as PubMed etc.
The editors must have policies and systems in place so that commercial considerations do not affect their decisions and they should have declared policies on publishing sponsorship supplements in the journal or any advertisements in the journal.

Benefits as an Editor for TGC Journals

Editorial Policy

Editorial policies are optimized to protect and reinforce the journal’s reliability and quality while aiming at the reader’s interest. TGC Open Access Journals provide complete editorial freedom to the Editorial Board members with the authority to determine the journal’s content and it does not interfere with any sort of assessment process for manuscripts. The act of determining the fate of the manuscript—to publish or reject is never affected by the author’s nationality, ethnicity, race, religion or political beliefs. No other private or government policies or agencies away from the journal can determine the decision. The decisions are made purely with respect to innovation, novelty, quality and scientific importance to the readers.

Editors ought to make sure that all the articles are published in relation to the scope of the journal and supported by relevance, integrity, scientific strength, new inputs, potential interest, completeness, clarity and ethics. Decisions must be made strictly based on the article’s scientific validity and importance to the scientific community.