Editorial Review

Our Editorial Commitment

CORALS’ Insights and Review (C’IR) is committed to elevating applied scholarship through fast-track, editor-reviewed publishing. We serve professional practitioners, scholar-consultants, and thought leaders across disciplines by providing a rigorous, respectful, and ethical editorial process that honors both innovation and integrity.

We believe that applied insight deserves a publication home even before large-scale validation. However, every submission must meet professional standards of quality, clarity, and conduct.

Review Process and Decision Path

All submissions undergo a two-stage internal editorial review:

Stage 1 – Ethical and Professional Screening

Before formal scoring, each submission is screened for alignment with C’IR’s ethical publishing standards. Submissions will be rejected without full review if they contain:

  • Discriminatory or degrading language or themes
  • Plagiarized, AI-fabricated, or unverifiable content
  • Material that promotes unethical or misleading practices
  • Previously published or copyrighted content without permission

Authors must affirm originality, proper attribution, and legal responsibility through a signed disclosure.

Stage 2 – Structured Editorial Rubric

Submissions that pass the ethical screen are evaluated using a structured rubric that assesses:

  • Clarity: communication structure, grammar, APA 7 citation style, format and page number, and a meaningful, logical flow.
  • Relevance: strength and integration of practical grounding within current research practices in the professional practice.
  • Originality: contribution to the field - (i.e., will anyone care?)

Reviewers provide a final recommendation: Accept, Revise and Resubmit, or Decline. Most decisions are returned within 2–4 weeks.

Publishing Ethics and Retraction Policy

C’IR reserves the right to retract any published work found to:

  • Contain fabricated, falsified, or plagiarized content
  • Violate ethical or professional standards
  • Pose reputational or legal risk to the journal or its community

We expect all authors to cite real, verifiable, and retrievable sources and to follow APA 7th edition guidelines – including disclosure of AI-generated content.

Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Michelle K. Preiksaitis – CORALS LLC, Owner
Researcher, Attorney, Associate Professor at University of the Cumberlands, Kentucky

Associate Editor

Dr. Amanda Tanner
Assistant Professor at University of the Cumberlands, Kentucky, Faculty at Capella University, Research Consultant CORALS LLC

Consulting Editor

Dr. Bruce Chapman
Senior Research Consultant CORALS LLC, Statistician, Engineer, Rare Elephant Founding member (Keyboard)

Drs. P, T, and C will be Stage 1 reviewers.

Editorial Review Panel

C’IR’s editorial review panel is joy on a page. See our amazing team – these are the folks who will provide Stage 2 reviews and approve your work into C’IR, or provide constructive feedback if needed. Depending on which of the senior editors initially approved the submission, some Stage 2 reviews may be done by other senior editors. While your specific editor will remain anonymous, in a single-blind editorial review process, you will receive personalized feedback from a senior editor regarding next steps towards publication.

Guest editors may be appointed for themed calls or special collections.