Step 4: Editorial Boards. Evaluating and selecting publications.

Distribute yourselves in four editorial Boards, one for each Journal. You are now referees.

Referees are expert scientists contacted by the Journals to evaluate if the articles are accepted or not.

To do so, you have to choose one of the following scientific journals (take in account that some journals are more selective, and thus, to publish there gives you more opportunities to get good collaborations and finantial support).

Editorial Boards

Your work in this step, is to read the articles sent to your Journal and discuss about its quality, taking in account the selection criteria of your Journal.

If an article sent to your journal is accepted, communicate it to the authors.

If an article sent to your Journal is not accepted, you have two options:

• If it needs just some modifications, tell the authors to modify it and send it to your editorial board again.
• If it is definitely wrong, just sent it back to the authors, telling them the reasons why it is rejected.

Authors

• If your article is accepted: congratulations! it is important, as it makes evident that your work is interesting.
• If your article is rejected: you cannot argue with the Editorial Board. Select another, lower-impact Journal. Use the reasons given by the Editorial Board to improve your article.