OWNERSHIP & MANAGEMENT DISCLOSURE

The Link journal of Speech, Language and Audiology (JSLA) is owned, managed, and published by Link medical interface (Private) Limited, Pakistan, which provides the legal, administrative, technical, and financial infrastructure required for journal operations. The publisher is responsible for maintaining the journal’s publishing platform, ensuring stable access to journal content, supporting production and administrative workflows, and enabling long-term preservation arrangements. Journal correspondence is managed through the official journal contact address, and publisher-level information is made publicly available to support transparency and trust in the journal’s governance.

Publisher: Link medical interface (Private) Limited, Pakistan. The publisher’s registered address is 8 Commercial, Sunny Park, Lahore 54000, Pakistan, and its official website is https://bmuventures.com. The official journal contact email is editor@jsla.com.

Journal Ownership

JSLA is wholly owned by Link medical interface (Private) Limited, which is responsible for the journal’s operational sustainability and continuity. This includes providing financial and administrative support for publishing operations, maintaining the journal website and journal management system, supporting staff functions related to manuscript processing and production, and ensuring that published articles remain accessible and preserved through the journal’s stated preservation arrangements. The publisher may also support participation in recognized preservation services, platform security practices, and continuity planning to protect the scholarly record.

Management Structure

Editorial Independence

JSLA maintains strict editorial independence as a foundational governance principle. Editorial decisions are made solely on the basis of scientific merit, ethical compliance, relevance to the journal’s scope, and the quality and clarity of reporting. The publisher does not interfere with editorial decision-making and does not influence the acceptance, rejection, or retraction of manuscripts. This separation is maintained to protect the credibility of peer review, ensure fairness to authors, and safeguard the integrity of the scholarly record.

Editorial Team

The editorial leadership of JSLA led by the Editor-in-Chief and supported by associate editors and the editorial board manages the editorial process from submission through decision-making. This includes overseeing peer review, selecting appropriate reviewers, evaluating reviewer reports, issuing editorial decisions, ensuring adherence to ethical requirements, and applying consistent quality standards. The editorial team is responsible for managing corrections, retractions, and post-publication updates in accordance with the journal’s ethics and integrity policies.

Separation of Roles

JSLA maintains transparent separation between editorial responsibilities and publishing/administrative responsibilities. Editors retain full authority over acceptance and rejection decisions, while the publisher provides administrative, technical, and financial support necessary for journal operations, including production and online dissemination. Publication fee payments are handled administratively after acceptance and are not used as an input to editorial evaluation. This separation is intended to prevent real or perceived financial influence on editorial outcomes and to ensure that peer review standards are applied uniformly.

Transparency

JSLA is committed to clear public disclosure of its governance and operating model. The journal discloses its publisher identity and ownership information, editorial structure, peer review model, funding mechanisms and author charges, and the ethical standards and integrity safeguards applied throughout publishing. This disclosure is intended to support accountability, enable informed author decisions, and meet transparency expectations commonly applied to reputable open access journals and indexing evaluations.