Our Editorial board consists of eminent scholars from around the world. It advises and supports the editors for sourcing research papers and providing help in finding out the latest research carried in different parts of the world. The Editorial Board members:

• Contribute to the management and development of 8M Journal.
• Update reviewers and authors with new policies and guidelines.
• Ensure the protection of individual data and maintain confidentiality.
• Elevate Journal's reputation among the affiliated academic community.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Consulting Editor, Managing Editor and Associate editors are responsible for the Journal.
• They develop the Journal and suggest/modify according to the latest developments.
• They encourage submission of quality manuscripts.
• They annually review the peer review process and the timely publication.
• The editors promptly write to the authors regarding acceptance or rejection of the manuscript and re-submission requests required for ensuring quality of the manuscripts.
• The Managing Editor provides the final approval after checking the content quality, writing style and construction, grammar, spellings, data presentation and organization prior to publication.
• The managing editor ensures that the manuscripts are not plagiarized.

Peer Review is a collaborative process that allows manuscripts submitted to a journal to be evaluated and commented upon by independent experts within the same field of research. The evaluation and critique generated from peer review process provide authors with feedback to improve their work and critically allows the editors to assess the manuscript's suitability for publication in the journal. Peer review helps to ensure that the published research is accurate, trustworthy and meets the highest standards of research within a given field. The practice of peer review is to ensure that good research articles are published. It is an objective process for good scholarly publishing and is carried out for Mass Communicator also. Our reviewers play a vital role in maintaining the highest standards of quality control and all manuscripts are peer reviewed following the procedure below:

Initial manuscript evaluation

The Executive and Managing Editors first evaluate all manuscripts. The exceptional manuscripts are accepted at this stage itself. Those rejected at this stage have either serious flaws or are outside the aims and scope of the journal. Those meeting the minimum criteria are passed on to an expert for review.

Authors of manuscripts rejected at this stage are normally informed within 2 weeks of receipt.

Type of Peer Review

8M journal employs blind reviewing where both the reviewer and author remain anonymous throughout the process.

Selection of Reviewers

Reviewers are selected for a manuscript according to their expertise. The Journal has a policy of using blind peer review.

Reviewer reports
Reviewers evaluate whether the manuscript:

• Is original
• Is methodologically sound
• Follows appropriate ethical guidelines
• Has results which are clearly presented and support the conclusions
• Provides references correctly to previous relevant work

Reviewers are not expected to correct or copyedit the manuscripts. Language correction is not a part of the peer review process.

The manuscript is to be reviewed within 30 days. All our reviewers also sign a conflict of interest statement. Revised manuscripts received from the authors are usually returned to the initial reviewers. Reviewers, if required, may ask for more than one revision of a manuscript.

The Executive Editor is responsible for the final decision to accept or reject the article.

Every article submitted to the journal is subjected to strict plagiarism check through a Software.