Criteria - What Makes an Edanz Editor

Edanz employs only editors who are well qualified to work on manuscripts from our author clients. An overriding criteria, however, is that our editors must be native speakers of English; that is, our editors are born into an English speaking environment and so speak and write in a way that only a native speaker can. This is our guarantee to ensure that your manuscript meets the native-English requirements of SCI (Science Citation Index) journals.
Before becoming an Edanz Editor, all qualifying candidates go through a training program and are then tested for their editing ability to raise the English language in a manuscript to the level necessary for successful submission to an author’s target journal. Only candidates who meet our high standards go on to become an Edanz Editor.
All editing work performed by Edanz is monitored by in-house editors for quality. Special attention is given to the work of new editors; these are monitored by our Executive Editor or Science Director who give feedback as part of our ongoing editor training program.

1. Expert Editors with PhD
   These are editors who have been awarded a PhD in their specialist field. They have research and writing experience. Many have an extensive publication record and are well recognized in their field. Some remain active researchers and authors, while others have left universities or research laboratories to become full-time science editors.
2. Expert Editors without PhD
   These are native-English editors who have been chosen because of their language editing skills and specialist knowledge. They must also have experience relevant to a scientific field. All have been selected because of their ability to edit and raise the level of English language in a manuscript to the level necessary for successful submission to SCI journals.

To qualify as an Edanz Editor, editors need to meet one or more of the following criteria.

• They have a relevant publication record, and/or 3+ years research experience. Some are in the late stages of their PhD candidacy, and already have the necessary research and writing experience.
• They have 3+ years experience working in the journal publishing or the pharmaceutical industry as a language editor.
• They have an internationally recognized editing qualification such as the BELS Board-certified editor or a post-graduate Editing Certificate from the University of Chicago’s Graham School.