Journal editors

Discover how to attract submissions, promote your journal, build lasting relationships with your reviewers, and improve your journal's reputation.

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We value our editors. We understand that the time and effort you invest in your journal has an enormous part to play in its success. Here, you'll find tips and information designed to support you in this crucial role.

Benefits of being an editor

Did you know, being a journal editor with Emerald entitles you to:

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Watch our video to see how we support our authors and editors. 

 

break the bias

Our commitment to equal representation

As a publisher we know that we’re not perfect, and we know we have a responsibility to help make the publishing more inclusive and equally representative. So our goal is for equal representation across our publishing practices, including editorial boards, reviewer pools and lead authors on our books front list, starting with 40 titles that we know are facing representative challenges, by 2025. Our ambition it is to extend this to everything by 2030.  

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Understanding our Editorial teams survey results 2024

During summer 2024, we launched a survey to our Journal Editors which aimed to find out more about our Editors and how they felt about working with us. We also asked a series of market questions around open access publishing, how Editors work with libraries and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).

Whilst we undertake our 2025 version of the survey, we have picked out a few highlights to share from last year's findings:

NPS Scoring

Editors gave us a very high recommendation score of 51 when scoring us on the Net Promoter Score (NPS) metric.

We will continue to monitor and compare this each year we conduct the survey.

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:

The Sustainable Development Goals are important to Emerald, and it was encouraging to hear that two-thirds of our Editors consider them fairly important or very important for their research.  

Faculty and Library Relationship:

When asked about the importance of the relationship between faculty and the library, 61% of respondents said it is fairly important or very important. 

We may ask for Editor support in helping libraries subscribe to journals. 

Diversity of Editorial Boards:

Survey responses provided an insight into the diversity of our Editorial Advisory Boards. 

We are working closely with our journal Editors to ensure that the Editorial Advisory Boards for our journals reflect the diversity of the research communities in which they work.  

Regional Differences:

Our Editors and Editorial Board members come from all regions of the world. 

The question that saw the largest difference in a response asked how important publishing your research as open access is to your institution. 

Over 65% of respondents in Europe indicated it was fairly important or very important, while only 30% in North America agreed. 

Promoting Your Journal:

We wanted to understand the different ways that our Editors promote their journals. 

The two most popular activities were promoting the journals at conferences and events (75%) or to relevant societies and networks (70%), and the least popular was sharing journal news and content on listservs (33%). 

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