Editorial Platform
Editorial Platform
Welcome to the Editors Home, your central hub for overseeing submissions, coordinating peer review, tracking journal workflows, and accessing your editorial toolkit. This page helps you jump quickly into your tasks and provides insight into journal metrics, resources, and support.
What You Can Do Here
- View & manage manuscript queues
- Unassigned submissions awaiting assignment
- Manuscripts in review
- Manuscripts in revision or editing
- Accepted manuscripts awaiting publication
- Search and filter submissions
- Use filters (date, topic, author, status) to locate particular submissions or monitor progress in specific subject areas.
- Track journal performance metrics
- Average turnaround times (submission → first decision, revision → decision)
- Review completion rates
- Acceptance / rejection trends
- Backlog of accepted manuscripts awaiting publication
- Issue & production management
- Create, schedule, and manage upcoming journal issues
- Edit content, arrange article order, and adjust issue metadata
- View published issues or special collections
- Notifications & alerts
- Receive alerts for overdue reviews, missing author responses, ethics checks pending, or system flags (e.g. similarity reports, missing disclosures)
- Quick access to tools & resources
- Editorial policies, guidelines, and manuals
- Conflict of interest forms, reviewer templates, and checklists
- Training materials, webinars, and FAQs
- Support / contact link for technical or editorial assistance
Best Practices & Editor Workflow Tips
- Stay on top of deadlines
- Use alerts and reminders in the system to prompt reviewers or authors at key stages to avoid bottlenecks.
- Monitor performance data regularly
- Use your dashboard metrics to spot slowing trends or recurring delays, and initiate process improvements.
- Ensure fairness & transparency
- Recuse yourself from manuscripts with potential conflicts of interest, and delegate to associate editors or board members when needed.
- Communicate clearly
- Use the platform templates for decision letters, but always customize where needed; record rationale and editorial decisions in the system notes.
- Be proactive with ethics tasks
- If the system flags plagiarism, image duplication, or other potential misconduct, pause progression until clarification is received.
- Support your editorial team
- Assign tasks judiciously to associate editors or guest editors; maintain oversight and review critical decisions.
