Editorial and Reviewer Responsibilities

Aureum Academic Journal (AAJ) maintains independent, impartial, transparent, confidential, and academically rigorous editorial procedures.

Editor-in-Chief

The Editor-in-Chief oversees manuscript evaluation, reviewer selection standards, editorial decisions, research-integrity matters, ethical concerns, complaints, appeals, corrections, and retractions.

Editors and Section Editors

Editors are responsible for assessing manuscript suitability, appointing qualified independent reviewers, evaluating reports, managing revision procedures, protecting confidential information, disclosing conflicts of interest, and ensuring fair editorial decisions.

Reviewers

Reviewers are responsible for evaluating manuscripts objectively, providing constructive recommendations, maintaining confidentiality, reporting conflicts of interest, identifying significant scholarly or ethical concerns, and avoiding inappropriate citation demands.

Editorial Independence

Manuscripts must be assessed according to academic merit, originality, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and scholarly significance.

Publication fees, institutional relationships, author nationality, personal interests, political considerations, or commercial pressures must not influence acceptance decisions.

Conflicted Submissions

Manuscripts submitted by editors, board members, or publisher-associated individuals must be assessed through an independent editorial process.