Editorial Board Development

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A strong editorial board supports a journal's scholarly direction, quality, integrity, diversity of expertise, peer review capacity, and long-term development. Editorial board development should be transparent, purposeful, and aligned with the journal's scope and CorayNova publisher-level standards.

This page provides guidance for editors-in-chief, senior editors, and journal teams. Specific editorial board members, roles, terms, and responsibilities should be confirmed by each journal and displayed where appropriate on the journal page.

· What an Editorial Board Supports

· Academic direction and scope development.

· Peer review capacity and reviewer recommendations.

· Special issue advice and topic development.

· Ethics awareness and escalation support.

· Author outreach and community engagement.

· Quality improvement, policy implementation, and transparency.

· Diversity of fields, methods, geographies, institutions, career stages, and scholarly perspectives.

· Appointment, Renewal, Review, and Public Listing

CorayNova does not set a single publisher-level fixed term for all editorial board appointments on this website. Individual journals may establish appointment terms, renewal procedures, participation review, resignation processes, and removal procedures according to their discipline, scale, maturity, and governance model.

No individual should be publicly listed as an Editorial Board Member, advisory member, guest editor, or other editorial role unless that person has confirmed agreement to serve in the stated role.

Editorial board participation and continuing fit may be reviewed by the journal. CorayNova does not publish detailed board performance metrics on this resource page. Reviews should focus on responsible participation, continuing relevance, conduct, conflicts, confidentiality, and contribution to the journal's quality and development.

· Board Development Practices

Practice Area

Good Practice

Why It Matters

Selection criteria

Identify members based on expertise, publication record, editorial experience, ethical judgment, field relevance, and commitment to responsible publishing.

Transparent criteria help avoid honorary or purely promotional appointments.

Scope coverage

Map board expertise against the journal's Aims and Scope, article types, methods, regions, and emerging areas.

Coverage gaps can affect reviewer selection, topic development, and editorial quality.

Diversity and inclusion

Consider disciplinary, methodological, geographic, institutional, gender, career-stage, and community diversity where relevant and appropriate.

A broader board can improve fairness, relevance, and responsiveness to the field.

Role expectations

Clarify expected contributions such as reviewing, advising, recommending reviewers, proposing topics, supporting ethics awareness, or attending meetings.

Clear expectations reduce symbolic appointments and improve accountability.

Onboarding

Provide board members with journal scope, policies, peer review model, confidentiality rules, competing interest expectations, and escalation routes.

Onboarding helps members contribute consistently and responsibly.

Performance review

Review participation, responsiveness, review quality, conflicts, conduct, and continuing fit with the journal's direction.

Regular review supports renewal, training, and quality development.

Renewal and rotation

Use transparent renewal, resignation, removal, and replacement processes where adopted by the journal.

Planned renewal keeps the board active and relevant.

· Editorial Board Transparency

Each journal should provide accurate editorial board information on its journal page, including names, affiliations, and roles where appropriate. Information should be kept current and should not list individuals who have not agreed to serve.

Editors should avoid presenting honorary, advisory, inactive, or proposed members as active editorial decision-makers unless their role is clearly defined.

· Conduct, Conflicts, and Removal

Editorial board members should follow journal and publisher expectations for confidentiality, conflicts of interest, respectful communication, peer review integrity, and ethical awareness.

A journal should have a fair process for addressing inactivity, repeated non-response, undisclosed conflicts, inappropriate conduct, breach of confidentiality, misuse of title, or actions that may undermine the journal's integrity.

A journal may remove or replace an Editorial Board Member through a fair process when there is long-term inactivity, repeated non-response, undisclosed competing interests, breach of confidentiality, inappropriate conduct, misuse of role, or conduct that may harm the journal's integrity or reputation.