Assigning Full -time Managing Editor for Sustainable, Accredited, and Indexed Journal

Abstract

In 2019 (2012 E.C.), the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Former MoSHE) introduced national journal accreditation system to enhance the number of scientific journals that publish quality works. Accordingly, it accredited 16 journals among 34 submitted for accreditation. The Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences and Language Studies (EJSSLS) is one of the first nationally accredited journals. Since its accreditation in December 2020 (2013E.C.), the number of manuscripts contributed to the journal has been increasing and this in turn has increased the burden of the editorial board members in general and the editor-in-chiefs and managing editor’s in particular. This editorial focuses on the role the managing editor plays and suggests the importance of assigning a full-time managing editor.