Three Consciousnesses for Editorial Affairs Staff

Abstract

The editorial affairs are involved in every aspect of daily work in an editorial department, and they are an indispensable part in the normal operation of a journal. The editorial affairs staff have a deep influence in quality on publishing efficiency, quality and reputation of the journal, and both position and role of editorial affairs should not be neglected. Any one who wants to become an outstanding editorial affairs member should have the consciousness of dedication, responsibility and innovation. Overview of Editorial AffairsDefinition and Content of Editorial Affairs. Just as its name implies, the editorial affair means the transactional management of an editorial department as well as the fundamental work guaranteeing the journal publishing operation. Any editorial department with complete organization and clear division of work should be allocated with the corresponding editorial affairs staff besides a certain number of editors [2]. The editorial affairs staff are a link of readers and authors, the assistants of chief editors and editors, and the support crew of an editorial department. As we all know, the periodical publishing is involved in topic selection, contributions soliciting, manuscript examining, editing & processing and editorial affairs, of which the editorial affairs are most rarely known. Both editorial affairs staff and editors are equally to serve the periodical publishing. Compared with the latter, the former mostly do the work behind the scene, and their job duties are different depending on the scale, manning quotas and periodical property of an editorial department, generally including collection of manuscripts, register, detection of academic misconducts, sorting and entry of manuscripts examining opinions, statistics and accounting of manuscript examining fees, file archives management, establishment and maintenance of expert and author databases, periodical presentation and publishing, response to author's inquiry on contributions, manuscript scheduling inquiry, letter receiving and posting and external communication and liaison. It is thus seen that editorial affairs staff' duties are trivial and obscure [2].