Editorial Policies

Open Christian Press follows a single-anonymous, one-reviewer peer-review method; editors and reviewers know authors, yet reviewer names stay concealed. Decisions—Accept, Accept with Revisions, or Reject—arrive within three calendar days, assuring rapid, respectful, Scripture-aligned, SEO-enhanced scholarly assessment for global academic visibility. 

Submitting authors affirm originality, accurate citations, biblical fidelity, and transparent funding. They disclose ethical approvals plus any generative-AI assistance, cooperate promptly with revisions, and consent to open-access CC-BY licensing and Zenodo DOI registration, promoting trustworthy, SEO-friendly global knowledge dissemination worldwide. 

Authors generously share underpinning datasets, code, and multimedia via Zenodo, OSF, or similar repositories, citing persistent links and licences. Detailed Data-Availability Statements enhance reproducibility, open science compliance, SEO indexing, and faithful stewardship of resources entrusted to the academic community worldwide. 

All contributors disclose financial, institutional, or personal relationships that might influence evaluation. Transparent conflict statements nurture reader trust, protect SEO credibility, uphold impartial editorial decisions, and demonstrate humble commitment to scriptural ethics and professional standards across interdisciplinary, faith-integrated research domains. 

Open Christian Press provides immediate CC BY 4.0 open-access distribution, enabling free global reading, sharing, adaptation, and citation. This humble, inclusive model meets funder mandates, boosts SEO visibility, and removes financial barriers hindering equitable participation in rigorous, Bible-anchored academic discourse worldwide. 

Our continuous publication workflow assigns a Zenodo DOI and releases the formatted article online within twenty-four hours post-acceptance, expediting SEO discovery, citation accrual, altmetric tracking, and timely dissemination of faith-infused knowledge to scholars, practitioners, and policymakers globally across diverse sectors. 

When honest errors emerge, we publish linked corrections promptly. Proven ethical violations trigger transparent retractions; pending investigations may warrant expressions of concern. These humble practices protect scholarly integrity, SEO accuracy, and reader confidence in Open Christian Press archives worldwide forever. 

Generative-AI tools may assist drafting, translation, or analysis, yet cannot receive authorship. Usage must be clearly acknowledged. Undisclosed AI ghost-writing contravenes ethics, risking rejection, correction, or retraction, and safeguards SEO credibility, scholarly authenticity, and humble trustworthiness before God and readers. 

Each reviewer pledges confidentiality, constructive tone, timely three-day turnaround, and avoidance of coercive citations. Conflicted reviewers recuse themselves. Outstanding service earns Watchman Reviewer Awards and APC-waiver credits, strengthening SEO reputation and nurturing a supportive, Christ-centred scholarly community of global excellence.