Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences is the Publisher of Archives of Clinical Epidemiology (ACE). The University provides the journal's institutional framework, server and hosting infrastructure, and management of journal user information.

Treata Scholars is the Co-Publisher of ACE and covers the journal's publishing costs. Its publishing and administrative services support the operation and dissemination of the journal without conferring authority over the scientific or editorial outcome of individual manuscripts.

The Editor-in-Chief and designated academic editors retain independent responsibility for manuscript assessment, peer review, decisions to accept or reject manuscripts, and protection of the scholarly record. Publishing support, institutional affiliation and financial arrangements do not entitle either organization to direct individual editorial decisions.

Detailed information about the no-fee publishing model, financial support and advertising is provided in the Financial Model, Revenue and Advertising section of Editorial and Publication Policies.

The Editor-in-Chief has overall academic responsibility for the scientific direction, editorial standards, and integrity of the journal. The Editor-in-Chief oversees implementation of editorial policies, coordinates the journal's academic editorial structure, and retains ultimate responsibility for ensuring that editorial decisions are made independently and consistently. Editorial responsibilities may be delegated to qualified academic editors when appropriate.

The journal's academic leadership and Editorial Board are listed on the Editorial Team page.

ACE maintains a clear separation between editorial decision-making and institutional, financial, commercial, or publishing interests. Decisions to send a manuscript for review, request revision, accept, or reject a submission are made on academic and scientific grounds. The publisher, co-publisher, sponsoring bodies, advertisers, service providers, and other external parties do not have authority to require the acceptance or rejection of an individual manuscript.

Editorial decisions are based on considerations such as scientific validity, methodological quality, ethical integrity, relevance to the journal's scope, reporting transparency, originality, and scholarly contribution. An author's institutional affiliation, geographic location, professional seniority, financial circumstances, or relationship with the journal does not determine the editorial outcome.

Related provisions are set out in the journal's Editorial and Publication Policies.

The Editorial Board supports the scientific development and academic operation of ACE. Members are selected on the basis of relevant scholarly, clinical, methodological, or editorial expertise and contribute to subject areas within the scope of the journal.

ACE maintains an Editorial Board whose expertise and geographic representation are appropriate to the breadth and international scope of the journal. Editorial Board members may advise on scientific direction, support manuscript handling and peer review, recommend qualified reviewers, and contribute to the development of journal policies and standards. Board membership does not provide preferential treatment in publication decisions.

Editorial Board membership is reviewed periodically so that member information remains current and the composition of the Board remains appropriate to the journal's scope and publication activity. Current membership is available on the Editorial Team page.

ACE applies conflict-of-interest disclosure and recusal requirements to editors and Editorial Board members. An editor does not make decisions on a manuscript when a relevant financial, professional, academic, institutional, or personal conflict of interest prevents independent assessment. In such cases, responsibility for the manuscript is transferred to another qualified editor without the relevant conflict.

The same principle applies to manuscripts authored by the Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board members, journal staff, or individuals with a close professional relationship to the journal. No editor participates in the editorial decision on their own manuscript. Detailed requirements are described in the journal's Editorial and Publication Policies.

The Editorial Office coordinates the administrative operation of the journal. Its functions may include manuscript administration, communication with authors and reviewers, technical screening, maintenance of editorial records, production coordination, metadata preparation, and communication between the editorial and publishing teams. Administrative and production personnel do not replace academic editors in scientific decision-making.

The official editorial contact is acejournal@treatascholars.com. Additional contact information is available on the Contact page.

Special issues, thematic collections, and supplements remain under the overall editorial oversight of ACE. Guest Editors, when appointed, are selected on the basis of relevant expertise and are subject to the same requirements for confidentiality, editorial independence, and competing interests as other journal editors. Guest Editors do not make decisions on manuscripts where a relevant conflict of interest exists.

Financial or institutional support for a special issue or supplement, where applicable, will be disclosed. Sponsors do not control reviewer selection, manuscript acceptance, editorial conclusions, or publication of unfavorable findings. The Editor-in-Chief retains overall responsibility for the scientific and editorial standards of all content published under the ACE title.

Detailed requirements for special issues, thematic collections, and supplements are set out in the Editorial and Publication Policies.

ACE distinguishes the responsibilities of the publisher, co-publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board, and Editorial Office and maintains public information concerning its editorial structure, publishing arrangements, peer-review model, open-access status, author charges, licensing, policies, contact information, discoverability, and preservation arrangements.

Information published on the journal website is maintained to reflect the journal's actual practices. ACE does not claim organizational memberships, indexing coverage, metrics, or publishing services that cannot be verified. Material changes affecting the publisher, co-publisher, Editor-in-Chief, editorial structure, access model, or publishing arrangements are disclosed transparently.

Related information is available in the journal's Editorial and Publication Policies and Open Access, Copyright and Licensing page.