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Guidelines for Action Editors

Each article will be assigned by EICs to an action editor, who
will be fully responsible for identifying reviewers, soliciting reviews,
and making recommendations to EICs as to whether to accept or reject the
article. The members of the editorial board will serve as action editors
at the request of the EICs (under normal circumstances, each member will
not be asked to handle more than two papers each year, excluding re-reviews). 

The assignment of action editors will NOT be based on narrow
disciplinary boundaries.

To fully assess multidisciplinary implications, significance, and 
accessibility  of a submission, the action editors need to assemble an
interdisciplinary panel of reviewers.  The general rule is:
Each article should be reviewed by at least two reviewers,
from at least two  different disciplines.
If an article involves more than two disciplines, more
reviewers should be consulted.


Steps for action editors:

1.  identify an interdisciplinary group of reviewers
2.  contact the reviewers to obtain reviews
3.  based on the reviews, make decision recommendations to EICs
in the form of an Action Editor's Report (which should include
all the reviews received).

Action editors should return the recommendations to EICs within 5 weeks.



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Guidelines for Reviewers:

Although each reviewer will comment from his/her own disciplinary background,
each reviewer should also keep in mind the inter-disciplinary nature of
this journal.  In the review, please assess the potential inter-discipinary
contributions. Also assess the readability/accessibility of a submission
to a multi-disciplinary audience. Please be constructive and detailed.

Because we aim at fast turnaround time, please return the reivew within
3 weeks.