Editor in Chief
Tesera Bitew (PhD, Assoc professor)
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Tesera Bitew (PhD) is specialist in complex intervention adaptation and development. His educational background includes Masters of Arts Degree in counselling psychology and PhD in Mental Health Epidemiology. He is currently working in Injibara University, Department of Psychology. Dr Bitew has ample experiences of conducting qualitative research, systematic reviews, randomized clinical trials and cross-sectional studies. He is interested in the education and mental health of the vulnerable persons such as women, children and people with disabilities. Dr Bitew has contributed publications in internationally recognized journals.
His publications include: qualitative studies, cohort studies, systematic reviews and cross-sectional studies. He has won early career awards in France, Paris in 2019, Bangalore, India in 2018 and Dakar, Senegal in 2019. The detail of his publications can be obtained using the Scopus Author ID and ORCID links below.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2270-9542
Contact Address
Email: ijssb@inu.edu.et or tesera2016@gmail.com
Tel.: +251911173656
Duties and responsibilities
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- Defines the journal’s aims, scope, policies, and editorial coverage.
- Assign associate editors in consultation with the editorial board and the advisory board
- Delegates editorial duties to associate and managing editors
- Oversees procedures for manuscript submission, acceptance, release, and publication, as well as the criteria for review and referee of papers.
- Evaluates the submitted manuscript if it complies with the journal scope. If it could comply with the scope, he/she will send it back to the author. If it fits with the scope, the Editor-in-chief sends to the corresponding associate editor.
- Provides final decision on manuscript acceptance or rejection
- Resolves conflict of interest among reviewers, editors, and authors
- Implements policy decisions approved by the editorial board and the advisory board
- Confirms confidentiality and proper review process of submitted manuscripts
- Follows up the overall quality of the journal
- Prepares an annual report for the advisory board and the college academic council describing the journal status and recommendations for improvement.
- Approves the minutes of the annual board meeting each year.
- Working with Associate Editors to determine future issue topics, content, and contributors
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