ASIO EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP

Criteria and Responsibilities for Editorial Board Membership

Overview

An ASIO advisory board is a body that provides non-binding strategic advice to the ASIO management of a corporation, organization, or foundation. The informal nature of an advisory board gives greater flexibility in structure and management compared to the Board of Directors. The Editorial Board is comprised of Co-Editors, Associate Editors, Emeritus Editors, Books and media Review Editor and Editorial Review Board members who have significant expertise and experience in Adapted Physical Activity (APA), a theoretical area associated with research in APA, and measurement models or qualitative approaches associated with APA research applications. Editorial Board members and Associate Editors are appointed by the Editor when a consensus of the Editorial Council (i.e., Advisory Editors and Associate Editors) and current board members approve the nomination.  

Functions:

The function of an advisory board is to offer assistance to ASIO with anything from marketing to managing human resources to influencing the direction of regulators. Advisory boards are composed of accomplished experts offering innovative advice and dynamic perspectives. Meeting quarterly or biannually, boards can provide strategic direction, guide quality improvement, and assess program effectiveness.

Eligibility Criteria

The eligibility criteria for appointment shall include the following:

Demonstrated scholarly expertise and ethical leadership in an area not overrepresented on the existing Editorial Board.  

Published three or more manuscripts in ASIO or a journal of scholarly equivalence.

Demonstration of excellence in the review process, based on independent evaluations of the Editor and Associate and/or Emeriti Editors. 

A commitment to non-biased international terminology, issues, and concerns related to individuals with disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide input on editorial needs and review manuscripts, as requested. 
• Complete assigned reviews in a timely fashion. Offer mutually respectful and constructive review of manuscripts to assist in providing the highest quality papers. 
• Maintain confidentiality and objectivity with regard to manuscripts and the ASIO review process.
• Participate in the evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of ASIO so as to help sustain the highest level of excellence in adapted physical activity.
• Once appointed to the Editorial Board, the member should submit at least one manuscript to ASIO every 3 years. 
• If or when appropriate, encourage authors whose primary language is not English to seek mentorship or assistance from a colleague prior to submitting a manuscript for review. 
• developing an understanding of the business, market and industry trends provide “wise counsel” on issues raised by owners/directors or ASIO management
• provide unbiased insights and ideas from a third point-of-view
• encourage and support the exploration of new business ideas
• act as a resource for executives
• provide social networking platform for directors and the ASIO
• encourage the development of a governance framework that enable sustainable growth of the ASIO
• monitor business performance of ASIO
• impose challenges to directors and management that could improve the business of ASIO

Join us now:

ASIO cordially invites you to join its Editorial Board. There are no regular responsibilities for the Editorial Board Members. Occasionally, you will be requested to give your input on new ideas, decisions or changes in the policies, procedures and guidelines of ASIO. We are always open to new ideas and suggestions for enhancing the quality of our journal. If you are interested to join ASIO Editorial Board, please submit the Editorial Board Membership Form. We would also appreciate it, if you kindly forward to all your Research staff and scholars within your Institute/University/industry.

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A scanned copy of duly filled and signed copy of editorial board membership form with your updated detailed Bio Data can be sent to editor@albertscience.com.  

After submitting editorial board membership, an Email will be sent within two days to your email id regarding acceptance or rejection of your membership on the basis of information given by you in membership form. It is free of cost.

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

The reviewers must treat the papers respectfully, honestly and confidentially. They should inform the editors of any possible conflict of interest with the research or its sponsors. Reviewers must provide honest and constructive evaluation of the papers and shouldn’t use the results and data of the papers in any unethical way.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper. Peer review is an essential component of formal scholarly communication, and lies at the heart of the scientific method. ASIO shares the view of many that all scholars who wish to contribute to publications have an obligation to do a fair share of reviewing.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Reviewer Guidelines

All selected reviewers must adhere and follow the guidelines formed by ASIO editorial board. 

Reviewers must critically review the assigned paper in specified time frame of ASIO. 

Reviewers must follow the full double blind international refereeing process to ensure the quality review. 

All the review feed backs must be provided in written form through ASIO Review template. 

Reviewers must highlight the parts of submitted manuscripts that require amendments from authors. The expert reviewer suggestions will be value added. 

If reviewers find any paper suitable for publishing even then critical remarks should be given in order to improve the quality of manuscripts. 

The paper will be reviewed by the same reviewer once the suggested changes are done in reviewed paper. 

Reviewers must maintain the formatting and style of original manuscripts as strictly adhered by templates of ASIO. 

Editorial board of ASIO has every right to override any suggested changes by reviewers and their decision should not be ruled out by reviewer.

Join in Reviewer Panel

We introduce ourselves as ASIO an initiative to provide an open access forum for researchers to publish their journals. All submitted papers are peer reviewed by international refereeing process. 

You are invited to join on the reviewers list of the journal. All selected reviewers must adhere and follow the guidelines formed by ASIO editorial board. 

Reviewer must have: 

P.G. Degree with five Yrs. Experience Or Ph. D. (Doctor of Philosophy) or With at least 3 years of expertise in respective field. 

If you are interested to join ASIO as a reviewer, please send your CV and a brief summary of your specific expertise and interests at editor@albertscience.com or join us now. 

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Publication ethics and malpractice statement

The editors of ASIO are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journals should be published. In evaluating the submitted works, the editors should limit themselves only to the intellectual content. The editors should not be partial by matters such as race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

The editors can choose to ignore any material that breaks legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors must ensure the confidentiality of the submitted works until they are published. The publication of an article in a peer-reviewed ASIO journals are an essential building block in the development of a logical and valued network of knowledge. It is a direct indication of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and exemplify the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.

Duties of authors

Quality of Contents

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented correctly in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work.
Counterfeit or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Data access and retention

Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should be prepared to provide public access to such data, if feasible, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism takes many forms, from publishing of another‘s paper as the author‘s own paper, to copying or paraphrasing substantial parts of another‘s paper (without acknowledgment), to claiming results from research conducted by others. Plagiarism in all its forms constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.

Multiple, redundant or concurrent publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is intolerable. In general, an author should not submit for consideration in another journal a previously published paper.

Acknowledgement of sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been significant in determining the nature of the reported work. Information obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used without the explicit written permission of the author of the work involved in these services.

Authorship of the paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper, and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Hazards and human or animal subjects

If the work involves chemicals, procedures or equipment that have any unusual hazards inherent in their use, the author must clearly identify these in the manuscript. If the work involves the use of animal or human subjects, the author should ensure that the manuscript contains a statement that all procedures were performed in compliance with relevant laws and institutional guidelines and that the appropriate institutional committee(s) has approved them. Authors should include a statement in the manuscript that informed consent was obtained for experimentation with human subjects. The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author‘s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper. If the editor or the publisher learns from a third party that a published work contains a significant error, it is the obligation of the author to promptly retract or correct the paper or provide evidence to the editor of the correctness of the original paper.

Duties of the Editorial Board

Publication decisions

The editor of a peer-reviewed journal of ASIO is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The corroboration of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism.

Fair play

An editor should evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Editors should recues themselves (i.e. should ask a co-editor, associate editor or other member of the editorial board instead to review and consider) from considering manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers. Editors should require all contributors to disclose relevant competing interests and publish corrections if competing interests are revealed after publication. If needed, other appropriate action should be taken, such as the publication of a retraction or expression of concern.

Involvement and cooperation in investigations

An editor should take reasonably responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper, in conjunction with the publisher (or society). Such measures will generally include contacting the author of the manuscript or paper and giving due consideration of the respective complaint or claims made, but may also include further communications to the relevant institutions and research bodies, and if the complaint is upheld, the publication of a correction, retraction, expression of concern, or other note, as may be relevant. Every reported act of unethical publishing behavior must be looked into, even if it is discovered years after publication.

Co-authors

Each co-author is responsible for the correct presentation of the article and its contents, assuring the research originality and the fact that the article hasn’t been published in other journal.

Duties ASIO publisher

ASIO as publisher of the journals & Books takes its duties of custody over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to make certain that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue has no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, the ASIO Publishing House and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers where this is useful and necessary.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

The reviewers must treat the papers respectfully, honestly and confidentially. They should inform the editors of any possible conflict of interest with the research or its sponsors. Reviewers must provide honest and constructive evaluation of the papers and shouldn’t use the results and data of the papers in any unethical way.

Permission to Reuse

No part of materials published in ASIO Journals may be reproduced without written permission of the publisher.

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