Editorial Team

Annals of Infectious Diseases and Therapy is governed by an international Editorial Board of active researchers and practitioners in infectious diseases and therapy. Board members are appointed by the Editor-in-Chief for renewable three-year terms and serve in a voluntary capacity.

Structure

Editor-in-Chief — María Jimena M
Holds final responsibility for all editorial decisions and for the journal's ethical standards.

Associate Editors
Handle manuscripts in their area of expertise: select reviewers, weigh reviews, and recommend a decision to the Editor-in-Chief.

Editorial Board Members
Advise on journal strategy, review manuscripts, propose special issues, and act as ambassadors for the journal.

Editorial Office
Somato Publications staff who manage submissions, production, and correspondence. Staff do not make editorial decisions.

Responsibilities of editors

Editors of Annals of Infectious Diseases and Therapy are expected to:

  • Evaluate manuscripts solely on academic merit, relevance, and originality, without regard to the authors' nationality, ethnicity, gender, religion, political views, or institutional affiliation.
  • Keep all submitted material confidential and use it for no purpose other than evaluation.
  • Declare any conflict of interest with a manuscript and recuse themselves from its handling.
  • Follow the COPE Core Practices and the journal's published policies.
  • Act promptly on allegations of misconduct in accordance with the Publication Ethics policy.
  • Not use their position to advance their own work; an editor's own submission is handled entirely by another editor with no visibility to the author-editor.

Board membership listing

The public Editorial Board page lists each member's full name, current institutional affiliation, country, and ORCID iD. The list is reviewed annually and members who are inactive are removed.

Joining the board

Researchers with a strong publication record in infectious diseases and therapy, prior peer-review experience, and an institutional email address may apply by sending a curriculum vitae and a short statement of interest to editor@somatopub.com. Appointments are made by the Editor-in-Chief.

Last updated: 29 September 2026