Editor Application

Expectations:

• You have the job of deciding which papers meet the publication standards of THSJ

An Editor's Job:

• Editors first conduct a desk review to ensure anonymity.

• They immediately reject papers with excessive grammatical errors, formatting issues, inappropriate topics, plagiarism, or incorrect information.

• Submissions are then sorted into Google Drive folders.

• Any editor can perform a desk review for any manuscript, as this process involves ensuring anonymity and categorizing the paper by topic and does not require field-specific knowledge.

• After the desk review, editors are divided into committees of three based on their expertise.

• An editor with multiple fields of expertise may join more than one committee simultaneously.

• Each committee is assigned manuscripts that its members have not previously reviewed during the desk review proportional to the number of total submissions.

• Editors are allowed to submit papers, though the Editor-in-Chief will make sure an editor does not review their own paper. For this reason, the Editor-in-Chief may not submit a paper.

• Then, members sort papers into ones that will be accepted immediately, papers that need some revision, and papers that will simply be rejected.

• Editors must provide comments on papers sent back for revision.

• In the second review round, editors are assigned new papers to accept or reject.

• The Editor-in-Chief reviews the rationale for each decision before finalizing it.