Strong editorial vision
- Discusses the importance of having a strong editorial vision for the journal, including how to evaluate trending topics as well as competing journals
- Discusses how to write a clear aims and scope that helps authors identify your journal as the most appropriate platform to reach their target readers
- Reviews organising the structure of your journal, to best help you achieve your aims
Efficient editorial workflow
- Discusses how to organise your editors to best handle submitted manuscripts based on subject expertise
- Reviews how to choose a good editorial board, as well as practically applying their responsibilities
- Discusses improving the lead times of submitted manuscripts, including how to successfully implement efficient peer review
- Reviews the importance of yearly journal evaluation at editorial board meetings to continually develop and improve the journal
Productive peer review
- Discusses the importance of the peer review process and how to find the right reviewers to evaluate submitted manuscripts
- Reviews how to communicate with reviewers so that they know what is expected of them from the journal during this process
- Highlights how to evaluate reviewer reports to make editorial decisions, and how to manage poorly written review reports, conflicting comments, and biased reviewers
Improving visibility
- Reviews ways to improve the visibility of the journal to the field
- Discusses what online indexes like Web of Science, Scopus, and MEDLINE are looking for and how to increase your chance of acceptance for inclusion in these indexes