The Editorial Team of Advances in Healthcare Research (AHR) supports independent scholarly evaluation, editorial governance, peer-review coordination, journal administration, copyediting, production, indexing, communication, and technical operations. Academic editorial authority is separated from administrative and publication-support functions to preserve scholarly independence, research integrity, transparent governance, and responsible academic editorial decision-making across the healthcare and health-related fields recognized within the journal's Aims & Scope.
Academic editorial decisions are based on scholarly merit, relevance to the current AHR Aims & Scope, originality, scientific quality, methodological or review-methodological rigor, research integrity, peer-review evidence, author responses, and applicable journal policies. All recognized healthcare and health-related scholarly fields have equal standing in editorial scope assessment.
The Chief Executive Editor provides principal academic editorial leadership and oversight of scientific-editorial decision-making. The Managing Editor coordinates editorial workflows, manuscript administration, editorial communications, journal operations, and the implementation of applicable editorial procedures. Section Editors undertake scholarly assessment, manuscript handling, reviewer coordination, and editorial responsibilities within their assigned authority and relevant expertise.
Academic editorial decisions must remain independent of Article Processing Charge payments, waiver eligibility, sponsorship, advertising, publisher ownership, institutional relationships, commercial interests, and other non-scholarly considerations. Editors must disclose relevant conflicts of interest. Where a material conflict exists, manuscript responsibility should be assigned to another qualified and sufficiently independent academic editor.
Academic editors may conduct initial scholarly screening, evaluate alignment with the current Aims & Scope and submission requirements, select or recommend independent reviewers, assess peer-review reports and author responses, verify substantive revisions, and make or recommend scientific-editorial decisions within their assigned authority and in accordance with applicable AHR policies.
Editorial Team members may submit manuscripts to AHR but receive no preferential treatment. Editorial affiliation does not provide exemption from scientific requirements, guaranteed acceptance, expedited scholarly evaluation, or any other academic editorial advantage.
An editor must not participate in the screening, reviewer selection, review assessment, revision evaluation, or scientific-editorial decision-making for their own manuscript or for another manuscript where a relevant material conflict of interest exists. Such manuscripts should be handled by another qualified and sufficiently independent academic editor in accordance with the journal's editorial procedures.
AHR applies double-anonymous peer review, under which author and reviewer identities are concealed from one another during the review process. Reviewers are selected according to relevant scientific or methodological expertise, independence, and suitability for the submitted manuscript. Reviewer assessments and recommendations are advisory. The responsible academic editor evaluates the scholarly and editorial record, including reviewer reports, author responses, manuscript revisions, research-integrity considerations, and applicable journal policies, before reaching or recommending a scientific-editorial decision.
After final scientific-editorial acceptance, manuscripts enter post-acceptance administration, copyediting, proofreading, production, metadata verification, Version-of-Record preparation, and publication. Administrative, copyediting, indexing, production, communication, and OJS technical-support personnel do not independently determine scientific acceptance or rejection.
Material scientific inconsistencies, unresolved scholarly concerns, ethical issues, and research-integrity problems identified during post-acceptance processing must be referred to the responsible academic editor. Editorial or production support must not introduce unsupported scientific claims, alter research findings, or independently resolve substantive scientific disputes.
The current AHR editorial-governance framework provides the basis for the journal's ongoing editorial operations. Editorial appointments and operational assignments may change over time without retrospectively altering valid historical editorial decisions, reviewer records, publication dates, DOI records, volume or issue assignments, or other established scholarly records.
Principal editorial correspondence may be directed to Advances in Healthcare Research at editor@advancesinresearch.id. Editorial and administrative support may be contacted at advancesresearch@gmail.com.
The Editorial Team operates within the journal's stated Aims & Scope, peer-review procedures, publication ethics, editorial-independence requirements, and applicable author and reviewer guidelines. Academic editorial responsibilities remain distinct from administrative, indexing, publication, and technical-support functions.