Editorial: Becoming Part of our Team

Editorial Board Member Role The basic responsibilities of the Editorial Board membership include contributing to defining the strategic direction, policies and procedures for the journal, reviewing papers, organizing special issues, attracting quality papers, suggesting other Editorial Board members who are team players, proposing and attracting good reviewers, among others. The screening process of manuscripts is based on the JTAER quality standards (clarity of writing, adequate paper structure, theoretical and practical contribution, originality, theoretical foundations, and sound methodology) [2]. Additional responsibilities of the Co-Editor are developing journal strategies, setting policies and procedures, negotiating journal abstracting and indexing with organizations providing abstracting services, negotiating publication of special issues, attracting good quality papers for publication in the journal, finding and attracting good Editorial Board members and reviewers.