Editor Responsibilities

Editorial Standards and Ethical Guidelines

The Editorial Board of Insieme Arti – Journal for Performing Arts is committed to ensuring a fair, transparent, ethical, and independent editorial process.

Editors are responsible for maintaining the quality and integrity of all published content.

1. Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions are made solely on the basis of scholarly merit, originality, relevance, and contribution to the field.

Commercial interests, publication fees, institutional affiliations, or personal relationships do not influence editorial decisions.

2. Fair Evaluation

Editors evaluate manuscripts without discrimination based on:

  • Race
  • Gender
  • Religion
  • Nationality
  • Ethnicity
  • Political beliefs
  • Institutional affiliation

3. Confidentiality

Editors must treat all submitted manuscripts as confidential documents.

Information about submitted manuscripts will only be shared with individuals directly involved in the editorial and peer-review process.

4. Peer Review Management

Editors are responsible for:

  • Conducting an initial editorial assessment
  • Selecting qualified reviewers
  • Ensuring an unbiased peer-review process
  • Making editorial decisions based on reviewer reports and the scholarly merit of the manuscript

5. Conflict of Interest

Editors must not handle manuscripts where a conflict of interest exists.

In such cases, editorial responsibility should be assigned to another qualified editor.

6. Publication Ethics

Editors are responsible for investigating allegations of:

  • Plagiarism
  • Duplicate publication
  • Data fabrication or falsification
  • Unethical research practices
  • Copyright infringement

Where necessary, the journal may publish corrections, expressions of concern, or retractions.

7. Quality Assurance

Editors ensure that published articles meet the journal's standards of:

  • Academic quality
  • Originality
  • Ethical compliance
  • Clarity of presentation
  • Relevance to the journal's aims and scope

8. Corrections and Retractions

Editors will take appropriate action when significant errors or ethical issues are identified after publication.

Such actions may include:

  • Correction (Erratum)
  • Corrigendum
  • Expression of Concern
  • Retraction

9. Timeliness

Editors strive to ensure that manuscripts are processed efficiently while maintaining rigorous peer-review standards.

Authors are kept informed about the progress of their submissions throughout the editorial process.

10. Commitment to Scholarly Integrity

The Editorial Board is committed to promoting ethical research, academic integrity, transparency, and excellence in scholarly publishing.

Editors work collaboratively with authors and reviewers to uphold the highest standards of research publication in the field of performing arts.