In this interview, Jennifer Mahar, Executive Peer Review Manager at Origin Editorial, shares how she uses data insights to iteratively improve areas of peer review within editorial control, like the time it takes to complete manuscript quality checks, as well as areas outside of editorial control, like reviewer response rates.
With ingenuity and attention to detail, there are many aspects of journal operations that can be optimized to cut down publication time. In this post, we look at four ways journals can decrease days to manuscript decision to publish new articles faster.
From disorganized journal data to scattered communication, there are a lot of traps journals can fall into that complicate peer review. Here are 3 ways your journal may be making peer review harder than it needs to be.
No matter how clear your team believes your journal's author instructions to be, there's always the possibility that they're not as obvious as you think. Here are some of the most common places where journals can improve their author instructions and how.
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From your editorial board's vantage point, all the benefits of a scholarly journal management system are plain to see. But how can you make your stakeholders feel the same?