Organizational Structure of the Journal
The organizational structure of the journal comprises:
- The Editorial Board: the Editor-in-Chief, the Managing Editor, and a number of faculty members of the Academy.
- The Scientific Advisory Committee: faculty members and specialized experts from within and outside the Academy.
- The Journal Secretary (and Treasurer).
- Two linguistic reviewers for manuscripts submitted in Arabic and English.
The Editorial Board is appointed by decision of the President of the Academy; the Secretary is appointed on the nomination of the Dean of the School of Applied and Engineering Sciences. Full details of each member are published on the website, including: name, affiliation, official e-mail, a short scientific biography, a Google Scholar profile link, and an ORCID iD.
Duties of the Editor-in-Chief:
- General supervision of the scientific and administrative affairs of the journal.
- Convening and chairing Editorial Board meetings, and preparing progress reports for the Dean of the School.
- Conducting correspondence and liaising with scientific institutions locally and internationally to support the journal and obtain accreditation and indexing.
- Coordinating with organizers of conferences and seminars within the journal's scope to publish their peer-reviewed work.
- Providing the author with a notification of acceptance after completion of review, and performing any tasks assigned by the Editorial Board.
Duties of the Editorial Board:
- Setting the journal's work plans and detailed publication rules and supervising their implementation.
- Designing the peer-review form and the intellectual-property form.
- Selecting the members of the Scientific Advisory Committee and reviewers across disciplines and maintaining a reviewer database.
- Approving manuscripts for publication and periodically evaluating the journal to raise its scientific standard.
- Maintaining strict confidentiality regarding any information related to manuscripts under review.
Duties of the Managing Editor:
- Receiving manuscripts and verifying compliance with publication requirements, and following up on review procedures and the implementation of reviewers' comments.
- Communicating with reviewers, authors, and the linguistic reviewer, and technically supervising production and electronic publishing.
- Verifying originality using plagiarism-detection software, and promoting the journal at scientific forums.
Duties of the Journal Secretary:
- Preparing the minutes of Editorial Board meetings and performing secretarial duties and document retention (paper and electronic).
- Formatting manuscripts in accordance with the journal's academic writing rules, and any other tasks within the journal's scope.