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Editorial and Peer Review Roles and Responsibilities

To ensure academic quality, research integrity, editorial independence, and transparency, Jurnal Garasi Buku dan Obrolan Keilmuan (SIBOOK Journal) applies clearly defined responsibilities for editors, peer reviewers, and journal management personnel.

Editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit, relevance to the journal's focus and scope, methodological quality, peer-review reports, research integrity, and publication ethics. Decisions must not be influenced by personal, institutional, financial, commercial, political, or other inappropriate interests.

Editor-in-Chief

Has overall responsibility for the journal's editorial direction, academic quality, and integrity.
Ensures that manuscripts are handled in accordance with the journal's editorial policies, peer-review procedures, and publication ethics.
Makes the final editorial decision regarding acceptance, revision, or rejection based on scholarly merit, reviewer reports, editorial recommendations, and applicable journal policies.
Ensures the fairness, confidentiality, independence, and integrity of the editorial and peer-review processes.
Ensures that potential conflicts of interest involving editors, reviewers, authors, or other parties are appropriately managed.
Oversees appropriate responses to research-integrity concerns, corrections, retractions, complaints, and other post-publication matters.
Must recuse themselves from handling manuscripts where a relevant conflict of interest may compromise editorial independence.

Editors / Section Editors

Conduct or coordinate the initial editorial assessment of assigned manuscripts.
Assess the relevance of manuscripts to the journal's focus and scope and their compliance with basic scholarly, ethical, and editorial requirements.
Select qualified and independent reviewers whose expertise is appropriate to the subject of the manuscript.
Coordinate and monitor the peer-review and revision processes.
Evaluate reviewer reports and author responses and provide editorial recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief.
Maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, reviewer information, and editorial correspondence.
Declare relevant conflicts of interest and withdraw from handling manuscripts where impartial editorial assessment cannot be assured.

Peer Reviewers

Peer reviewers act as independent scholarly evaluators and are not considered members of the Editorial Team unless they are separately appointed to an editorial position.

Evaluate assigned manuscripts objectively and independently within their areas of expertise.
Assess originality, scholarly contribution, relevance, methodology, analysis, interpretation, research integrity, and the appropriate use of scholarly literature.
Provide constructive, substantive, respectful, and evidence-based comments to assist editors and authors.
Maintain strict confidentiality regarding manuscripts, supplementary files, reviewer assignments, and information obtained during peer review.
Disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest and decline assignments when an independent assessment cannot be provided.
Complete reviews within the agreed review period or promptly inform the editor when additional time is required.
Must not upload unpublished manuscripts or confidential manuscript content to generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems or use AI tools to analyze, evaluate, or generate substantive peer-review reports.

Detailed requirements are available in the Reviewer Guidelines .

Journal Manager

Coordinates the administrative and technical operation of the journal publishing system.
Supports the implementation of editorial workflows through Open Journal Systems (OJS).
Supports administrative communication among editors, reviewers, authors, and other journal personnel.
Maintains journal settings, user roles, workflow arrangements, publication schedules, and other authorized administrative components.
Supports the maintenance of complete and traceable editorial records within the journal management system.
Does not independently make academic decisions concerning manuscript acceptance or rejection unless separately appointed to an editorial role with such authority.

Editorial Secretary

Provides administrative support for editorial correspondence, documentation, and publication workflows.
Assists in monitoring manuscript progress, reviewer correspondence, editorial schedules, and publication documentation.
Supports the maintenance of accurate editorial and publication records.
Maintains the confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts and restricted editorial information.
Does not independently make manuscript acceptance or rejection decisions unless separately appointed to an editorial role with such authority.

Editorial Independence

The Editorial Team exercises independent academic judgment in evaluating manuscripts. The publisher, institutional supporters, sponsors, advertisers, or other external parties must not interfere with decisions concerning reviewer selection or the acceptance, revision, or rejection of individual manuscripts.

If an editor has a personal, professional, institutional, financial, or other relevant conflict of interest concerning a manuscript, editorial responsibility for that manuscript must be transferred to another qualified editor who can manage the process independently.