Academic Editor

🚀 PLOS Global Public Health Is Recruiting Academic Editors! Join Us!

PLOS Global Public Health is growing, and we’re excited to announce that we are now seeking passionate, mission‑driven Academic Editors to join our diverse, global Editorial Board!

If you believe in equitable, inclusive, and open science, and you’re excited about shaping a journal that centers interdisciplinary research and amplifies diverse voices in global health, we want to hear from you. Our editors play a critical role in guiding high‑quality, impactful scholarship—work that supports communities, informs policy, and drives meaningful change worldwide.

As part of the PLOS GPH editorial community, you’ll collaborate with dedicated researchers from around the world, contribute to improving the peer‑review process, and help ensure that vital global public health research remains accessible to all, for all.

🌍 If you're ready to champion equity-focused, interdisciplinary research and help shape the future of global public health publishing—this is your moment.

We are looking for expertise in the following Sections:
✔️ Global Health Security
✔️ Global Mental Health
✔️ Indigenous Health
✔️ Sexual and Reproductive Health
✔️ Social Behavioral, and Qualitative Research
✔️ Emergencies and Humanitarianism
✔️ Nursing and Midwifery
✔️ Gender and Health
✔️ Non-communicable Diseases
✔️ Nutrition
✔️ Policy and Finance

🔎 More about the Academic Editor role here

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PLOS Academic Editors form an international Editorial Board of active researchers who ensure that innovative, rigorously conducted research submitted to the journal is made available as soon as possible and without restriction.

As experts in the fields of research they serve, editors voice the needs of their community and are active participants in scholarly communication discussions around open access, open data, open science, and peer review.

Academic Editor Responsibilities 

Applies to:
PLOS Climate | PLOS Global Public Health | PLOS Mental Health | PLOS ONE | PLOS Water

Academic Editors oversee the peer review process from beginning to end, taking responsibility for conducting an initial assessment based on the criteria for publication, finding and inviting reviewers, evaluating their feedback, making editorial decisions, and communicating decisions to authors. Academic Editors play an active role in the community and are highly engaged as representatives of PLOS.

Responsibilities:

Our Academic Editors oversee the peer review process from beginning to end, taking responsibility for conducting an initial assessment based on the criteria for publication, finding and inviting reviewers, evaluating their feedback, making editorial decisions, and communicating decisions to authors. Academic Editors play an active role in the community and are highly engaged as representatives of PLOS.

To ensure an efficient peer review process for our authors, our Academic Editors strive to:

• Agree to handle one to two new manuscript assignments per month
• Handle each manuscript assignment from first assessment to final decision
• Respond to manuscript invitations (Accept or Decline) within two days
• Assess whether the manuscript is suitable for peer review within four days of agreeing to the invitation
• Secure at least one reviewer on manuscripts that are suitable for review
• Submit a decision within four days of receipt of the complete reviews
• Adhere to Editorial and Publishing Policies

Ambassadorship

Our editors are ambassadors for their journal and for PLOS, empowered to use their expertise to spread awareness of the journal, its mission, and values in the global research community; forge inclusive relationships; guide and encourage a diverse group of prospective and current contributors; reflect community needs; and increase goodwill.

Code of Conduct

In addition to these role expectations, all editors adhere to PLOS’ Code of Conduct for Editorial Board Members.

Posted by: Julia Robinson