Our journal, which aims to be a significant
part of the scientific community in its related areas, seeks for new team
members in various positions, such as: editor, editorial board member, copyeditor, language editor.
RESM is a non-profit organization and does not charge fees to authors or readers. Thus, there is no financial remuneration available for any editorial position in our journal.
RESM does not enforce editors or other journal members to publish or recommend articles to the journal, and does not ask for any financial contribution from them.
Enthusiasm is not less important than academic titles. Therefore, we would like to specify that younger and enthusiastic researchers at earlier stages of their career have also an important chance to be selected.
Descriptions of the positions in editorial procedures:
The editors perform editorial tasks given by the editor in chief like; deciding if the new submissions have adequate quality to initiate further editorial processes, finding suitable reviewers, final acceptance/rejection evaluation based on reviewer reports, etc.
Copyeditors deal with the formatting of the articles and compliance to the journal style and scientific writing procedures.
Language editors examine and correct papers for proper use of English.
Also, we would like to accept all our team members as a part of
the RESM family and see them as representatives to help the promotion and
advertisement of the journal.
Provided
advantages:
This position offers excellent experience in an academic publishing environment, as well as opportunity for greater interaction with scholars working in related research areas. In this sense editors may have the following advantages:
- Greater
familiarity with ongoing research in your field
- Greater
visibility within your research community
- Having an impact
on the scientific studies in your field
- Acknowledgement
of your expertise and leadership within a subject
- Positive effect for
promotion and grant applications
Required qualifications:
- Good communication skills; fluent English (especially written)
- Self-motivated
and self-managed; ability to meet deadlines
- Desire to
contribute to the improvement of the journal and follow editorial rules
- A cheerful
attitude and ability to work with other editors and management
- Familiarity with demands/criteria of academic publishing
- Preferred to be addressed in a region from Europa, America and Austrilia continents (for the time being, see below)
Application & Evaluation Process:
This call has no specific termination date. However, the geographical distribution of the journal members are important. Therefore, applications from Europa, America and Australia continents are most welcome. For other regions, we also accept the applications for the present time period.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please forward a CV and short cover letter to editor.jresm@gmail.com. State the positions you want to participate (may be more than one) in your application. Please direct questions, if any, to the same address.