Editorial Responsibilities

Contemporary Accounting Perspectives (CAP) maintains a collaborative editorial structure in which the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Language Editors, the Editorial Advisory Board, and reviewers contribute to the integrity, quality, and scholarly standards of the journal.

All editorial decisions are made independently and are based solely on academic merit, originality, methodological quality, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal’s aims and scope.

Editorial Structure

Responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief

• Ensuring the academic quality and integrity of the journal
• Conducting initial editorial screening of submissions
• Assigning manuscripts to appropriate Associate Editors
• Making final editorial decisions based on reviewer reports and editorial evaluations
• Maintaining editorial independence and ethical publishing standards
• Managing editorial policies, journal development, and publication processes

Responsibilities of Associate Editors

• Evaluating manuscripts within their area of expertise
• Conducting preliminary editorial assessment
• Selecting qualified and independent reviewers
• Managing and monitoring the peer-review process
• Providing editorial recommendations to the Editor-in-Chief
• Ensuring fairness, confidentiality, and objectivity during review

Responsibilities of Language Editors

• Reviewing accepted manuscripts for academic English quality
• Improving clarity, grammar, readability, terminology, and consistency
• Supporting the linguistic clarity and academic style of published manuscripts
• Ensuring consistency with the journal’s publication language standards

Responsibilities of the Editorial Advisory Board

The Editorial Advisory Board supports the academic development, international visibility, and scholarly reputation of CAP. Members of the Advisory Board are not responsible for the routine management of individual submissions unless they are specifically invited to provide advice or expertise on a particular matter.

• Providing strategic academic guidance for the journal’s development
• Supporting the journal’s international visibility and scholarly reputation
• Advising on the journal’s aims, scope, thematic priorities, and academic direction
• Recommending emerging research areas, special issue themes, and potential contributors when appropriate
• Promoting ethical, rigorous, and internationally recognized publishing standards
• Contributing to the journal’s academic network and outreach activities

Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions at CAP are made independently and objectively without influence from authors’ institutional affiliations, nationality, gender, academic position, political views, or personal characteristics.

The Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors are responsible for ensuring that editorial decisions are based solely on scholarly merit, originality, methodological rigor, relevance to the journal, and compliance with ethical standards.

Confidentiality

Editors and editorial staff must treat all submitted manuscripts as confidential documents. Unpublished materials disclosed in submitted manuscripts may not be used for personal research purposes without the explicit written consent of the authors.

Conflict of Interest

Editors should recuse themselves from handling manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, institutional, financial, or personal relationships with authors or institutions associated with the submission.

Members of the Editorial Advisory Board should also disclose any potential conflicts of interest if they are consulted regarding a manuscript, policy matter, or special issue proposal.

Publication Ethics

Editors are expected to uphold internationally recognized publication ethics principles and take appropriate action in cases involving plagiarism, duplicate publication, data fabrication, unethical research practices, citation manipulation, or other forms of academic misconduct.