The EIC is the chairman of the Editorial Board. In general, the editor in chief is responsible for the technical content, quality, and timeliness of the journal issues. The editor in chief is generally NOT responsible for the layout, printing, production, subscription, copyright, payment, pricing, budget, or funding of the journal.
     Specifically, the EIC has executive responsibility for:

• Defining and updating the aims, scope, and list of interesting topics of the Journal.
• Determining overall policies of the Journal, including the Journal's style, type of content, frequency of publication, length of issue and paper, intended audiences, and expected contributors.
• Establishing editorial guidelines and detailed process, determining policies concerning the acceptance and rejection of submissions.
• Recruiting, selecting, and appointing Editorial Board members.
• Soliciting and obtaining manuscript submissions from prospective authors.
• Assigning paper refereeing to the appropriate editor, coordinating the peer-review process, setting and enforcing deadlines.
• Interacting with editors for receipt of reviews, recommendation, decision, etc.
• Interacting with authors for receipt of manuscripts, paper revisions, editorial feedback, etc.
• Making final decisions on paper selection, based on reviews, recommendations, and/or votes of reviewers.
• Accepting final manuscripts for each issue, and timely sending them to the Production Editor for publication.
• Soliciting and interacting with Guest Editors for Special Issues that focus on a particular topic or for highlighted conferences.
• Setting and adhering to all publication schedules that include a minimum number of issues per year.
• Responding to all correspondence with authors, editors, reviewers, and readers, forwarding correspondence as needed.
• Writing or delegating the writing of editorials, articles, status reports, and other materials as appropriate.