Editors should strive to improve the quality of the JKASNE. Editors should provide guidelines about research and publication ethics to researchers and information about the submission process and the review system to authors and reviewers. Editors should strive to maintain a fair and blind peer-review system by choosing suitable reviewers in their area of research expertise to review manuscripts. In order to ensure that the peer-review system is effective, editors should develop and update a database of reviewers. The editor-in-chief should identify eligible editorial board members, and provide them with information about the JKASNE. The editor-in-chief should discuss the publication of the JKASNE with editorial board members regularly. Editors should keep information about manuscripts, authors, and reviewers confidential. Editors should not use ideas expressed in the manuscript for the editor’s research without the authors’ consent. Editors should evaluate manuscripts objectively and appropriately without any bias or personal interest. Editors are required to be alert to misconduct or ethical issues in manuscripts, and to follow the standards of research and publication ethics. When an editor finds a fundamental error in a published manuscript, he or she should immediately initiate the process of resolution, including an expression of concern, correction, and/or withdrawal of the manuscript, as required. The resolution process will be initiated following the flowchart provided by the COPE (http://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts).

Regulations for the Editorial Board

1. Purpose

The purpose of these Regulations is to define matters regarding the operation of the editorial board of the JKASNE.

2. Organization of the Editorial Board

The editorial board comprises an editor-in-chief and approximately 10 members.

1) The editor-in-chief is the editorial director of the Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education (KASNE), and the editor-in-chief recommends appropriate editorial board members. The president of the academy appoints them as editorial board members after receiving approval in the board of directors meeting of the KASNE.

2) The editor-in-chief recommends editorial board members among the members of KASNE. In selection of the members, the following criteria should be considered:

• (1) Editors should be those qualified for manuscript review through guidance or review of a thesis related to this society.
• (2) Editors should be holders of a doctoral degree and a university professor or have equal qualifications.
• (3) Editors should have experience in editing and reviewing for a journal.
• (4) Editors should be familiar with the latest knowledge of each research field.
• (5) Editors are selected through consideration of regional distribution.

3. Service Term:

The term of the editor-in-chief and members of the editorial board is 2 years, and they may be reappointed.

4. Duties of the Editorial Board

▘The editor-in-chief represents the board and takes responsibility as the chairperson of the board.

▘The editorial board reviews and decides the following for the publication of manuscripts in the JKASNE, and the editor-in-chief reports the results to the board of directors:

1) Publishing the journal

• • Matters regarding editing
• • Decisions regarding review and publication of submitted manuscripts
• • Final decisions regarding articles to be published in each volume and issue
• • Determine the article processing fee
• • Matters regarding the process for managing research & publication misconduct

2) Preparation for journal evaluation

3) Amendments of ‘Regulations’ related to manuscripts submission, reviewing, and publishing of the journal

4) Nominations and management of reviewers

5) Review and decisions relating to matters to be referred to the board of directors meeting.