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CorayNova provides a common framework for editorial governance across journals launched, transferred, relaunched, hosted, or developed in partnership with scholarly societies, institutions, Editors-in-Chief, and other partners. Each journal should adapt this framework to its governance structure and publishing arrangements. Each journal’s governance structure should safeguard independent academic editorial decisions and clearly define the responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief, editorial team, editorial board, journal’s editorial office, technical support team, and any society or institutional partner. It should also clarify CorayNova’s responsibilities for policy implementation, publication ethics, and publishing operations, while respecting the independence of academic editorial decisions.

• Governance Principles

The Editor-in-Chief or authorized journal editor is responsible for academic editorial decisions within the journal's approved editorial process. CorayNova is responsible for publisher-level oversight of policy, ethics, process quality, platform operation, legal obligations, record keeping, brand integrity, and responsible communication. Societies, institutions, sponsors, partners, APC payers, advertisers, donors, and other interested parties must not influence editorial assessment, reviewer selection, peer review, acceptance, rejection, revision requests, correction, retraction, expression of concern, article removal, complaint handling, or appeal outcomes.

Governance Actor	Typical Responsibilities
Editor-in-Chief	Leads academic editorial direction, supports editorial quality, oversees journal-level editorial decisions, manages editorial standards, and works within approved CorayNova policies and journal governance documents.
Associate or Section Editors	Handle assigned submissions, reviewer selection, recommendations, and editorial communication according to the journal's workflow and conflict-of-interest rules.
Editorial Board	Supports subject coverage, reviewer networks, journal development, ethical awareness, community connection, and responsible scholarly standards.
Guest Editors	May support approved special issues or collections under journal policy, CorayNova oversight, and independent handling of conflicts.
Society or institutional partner	May support community engagement, strategic cooperation, outreach, training, funding, or governance discussion without influencing manuscript-level decisions.
CorayNova Editorial Office	Supports policy alignment, ethics handling, workflow quality, escalation, records, editor support, and publisher-level coordination.
Platform and technical team	Supports the CorayNova Journals Platform, journal setup, workflows, access, account support, metadata display, and technical troubleshooting.
Publisher-level leadership	Handles serious institutional-level matters, major cooperation issues, and escalations that require publisher-level attention.

• Editorial Independence Safeguards

CorayNova encourages journals to develop governance arrangements suited to their needs, with reference to its publisher-level policies, and to discuss proposed arrangements with CorayNova where appropriate to support consistency and clarify responsibilities. Journal agreements or governance documents should clearly describe the appointment, renewal, review, resignation, and removal procedures for Editors-in-Chief and other key editorial roles. For journals published and distributed by CorayNova, we recommend coordinating announcements of Editor-in-Chief appointments through CorayNova’s official channels to help keep public information accurate and consistent.

Risk Area	Governance Safeguard
Commercial influence	APCs, sponsorship, advertising, donations, or institutional support must not influence editorial decisions.
Society or institutional pressure	Partners may participate in governance discussions but must not direct manuscript-level editorial outcomes.
Editor conflict of interest	Editors must recuse themselves from manuscripts, appeals, or decisions where they have a relevant conflict.
Guest editor conflict	Guest editor submissions or conflicted submissions must be handled by an independent editor.
Public role announcements	Editor-in-Chief names and official public role information for CorayNova-published journals must be issued through CorayNova's official route.
Policy inconsistency	Journal-specific rules must be reviewed for consistency with CorayNova publisher-level policies.

• Additional Roles

A journal may propose additional roles such as Advisory Board, Editorial Board, Managing Editor, Society Liaison, Institutional Liaison, Data Editor, Ethics Adviser, or other role types. Any additional role must have a clear purpose, documented responsibilities, conflict-of-interest expectations, and CorayNova review and approval. Specific responsibilities for additional roles must be justified and approved by CorayNova before public use. Proposed role titles must not mislead readers, authors, reviewers, partners, or institutions about authority, appointment status, or editorial decision-making power.

• Escalation and Contacts

Questions about editorial model, policy, ethics, journal scope, or governance documentation should be sent to editorial@coraynova.com. Society, institutional, cooperation, promotion, or agreement discussions may be sent to marketing@coraynova.com. Serious institutional-level matters may be sent to executive@coraynova.com. Technical questions about the CorayNova Journals Platform should be sent to support@coraynova.com.