The Journal is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief (EIC) or team of co-Editors-in-Chief (EICs). The role of EIC is an unpaid position.
The Editor-in-Chief has the following responsibilities
Key responsibilities
- Managing progress, communicating with, and assigning tasks within the editorial board and associate editors
- Fielding inquiries from authors, readers, and potential editors, making initial editorial determinations and final decisions on all incoming submissions
- Securing and maintaining operational funding, budgets, and accounts
- Setting overall strategic vision for the journal
- Setting up and maintaining users in the editorial management system and registering article DOIs
- Maintaining and updating the journal website, including entering information for journal issues
Additional responsibilities
- Delegating submissions to associate editors and following up on associate editor work processes
- Entering into contracts with suppliers and coordinating outgoing payments
- Managing post-acceptance and post-rejection author communication
- Managing communication with copyeditor
- Producing and typesetting final article PDFs
- Communicating with graphic designers about journal cover art and text
- Chairing editorial board meetings
- Serving as editorial board representative at charitable association board meetings
- Handling author and reader complaints.
Experience and qualifications
Essential experience and qualifications
- Experience as an editor with active paper-handling responsibilities in a selective, peer reviewed journal
- Substantial experience as author of papers published in selective, peer reviewed journals
- Knowledge of the field of island studies
- Commitment to multidisciplinary approaches: The journal publishes papers from across the range of sciences, social sciences and humanities disciplines, without discriminating against particular approaches
- Commitment to the principles of peer review and publishing ethics
- Commitment to diamond OA publishing
- Commitment to diversity in publishing: The journal is open to publishing papers from across a range of political positions so long as they are not offensive, hateful, threatening, or discriminatory. While individual authors and editors will hold political beliefs, the journal itself does not take political stances. The journal does not support formal or informal bans against groups of authors on the basis of nationality, ethnicity, gender, or other characteristics.
Desirable experience and qualifications
- Experience with or ability to acquire funding to support journal publication
- Experience with both social sciences and humanities approaches, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches
- Experience of organisational governance.
Process
Interested EIC applicants or teams of EICs should e-mail their CVs and a letter (no more than 4 pages) explaining why they are qualified to serve in the role to us, by 20 December 2025.
As a new journal, we wish know you earlier.
