Editorial Team

Editorial Responsibilities: The Editor-in-Chief provides overall academic leadership and strategic direction for the journal, establishes and oversees editorial policies, coordinates the editorial board, supervises manuscript evaluation and peer-review processes, and makes final editorial decisions based on scientific quality, originality, ethical compliance, and relevance to the journal's focus and scope. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for maintaining editorial independence, publication integrity, and the continuous improvement of scholarly publishing standards.

Editorial Responsibilities: Journal Editors are responsible for conducting preliminary manuscript assessments, evaluating the scientific relevance and originality of submissions, coordinating peer-review processes, assessing reviewers' recommendations, and providing editorial recommendations based on methodological rigor, research significance, and the journal's publication standards. They collaborate with the Editor-in-Chief to maintain consistency, transparency, and academic excellence throughout the editorial evaluation process.

Editorial Responsibilities: Section Editors manage manuscripts within their respective scientific areas, including food technology, food processing and safety, sustainable cultivation, aquaculture, biotechnology, and food-related innovation. Their responsibilities include examining the scientific suitability of submissions, identifying qualified peer reviewers, monitoring review progress, evaluating revisions, and providing editorial recommendations to ensure that accepted research meets the journal's disciplinary standards and publication requirements.

Editorial Responsibilities: The Copy Editors are responsible for improving the linguistic accuracy, clarity, readability, and consistency of accepted manuscripts. This includes reviewing academic grammar, scientific terminology, sentence structure, citation and reference formatting, manuscript organization, and adherence to the journal's editorial style. The Copy Editors also coordinate necessary textual corrections while preserving the authors' intended scientific meaning, methodological explanations, and research findings.

Editorial Responsibilities: The Layout Editor is responsible for preparing the final visual presentation and publication-ready formatting of accepted articles in accordance with the journal's official template. This includes ensuring consistency in typography, page layout, headings, tables, figures, captions, pagination, author information, and reference presentation. The Layout Editor also prepares and checks final publication files to maintain professional readability, technical accuracy, and visual consistency across published articles.

Editorial Responsibilities: The Proofreader performs the final examination of manuscripts before publication to identify and correct residual typographical, grammatical, punctuation, formatting, and presentation errors. Responsibilities include checking consistency between the final text and approved editorial revisions, verifying tables and figures, examining references and citations, and reviewing the completeness and accuracy of publication metadata. The Proofreader works with the Copy Editors and Layout Editor to ensure that published articles meet the journal's technical and editorial quality standards.