Peer review, simplified
A fully-featured peer review system for your scholarly journals
Manuscript Manager is a modern peer review tool for publishers in search of a flexible submission system and a state-of-the-art peer review platform.
Why publishers join us
Everything a journal portfolio needs, without the overhead
A cost you can predict
Predictable pricing based on journal and submission volume. No start-up fee, no seat licences. Setup help and email support is included.
Tailor your workflow
Configure submission steps, forms, review stages, and decisions per journal. Change them whenever you need to.
Faster to a decision
Real-time metrics, adjustable deadlines, and automated reminders keep manuscripts moving. Manuscripts can cascade to your other journals.
An easy switch
Run a free trial alongside your current system. We help configure your workflows, import data, and prepare your team.
The platform
For every role in peer review
as well as +10 additional roles
Submission in clear steps
A minimal, step-by-step submission that authors can work on in their own time. You decide the steps, fields, and files for each journal.
Everything for a decision in one place
Manuscript details, PDFs and video, reviewer search and invitations, and optional AI checks makes for smooth decisions.
Quick reviewing
Reviewers evaluate an assigned manuscript in a few short, configurable steps, with editable reminders.
The whole journal at a glance
Your editorial office sees every manuscript, deadline, and bottleneck, with graphs and reports always ready.
Friends and integrations
We work with the services you already use
Similarity checks, identifiers, reviewer-finding, and open access services, connected to your workflow.
Testemonials
Words from editors who have been with us for many years
We are finding this system very easy to use, and frankly very similar to the much more expensive systems that exist. We looked at systems like OJS, but decided that while the system is ‘free’ it would end up costing us a lot of time, labour, frustration, not to mention needing a server to run it on. Manuscript Manager feels like a perfect middle ground between free systems like that and the much more expensive systems from the big companies.
Kamden StrunkSection Editor, The Professional Educator, Auburn University
Highly flexible
“Manuscript Manager is configured to precisely fit our workflow. It is simple to navigate and is appreciated by our co-editors, authors and reviewers. The support has always been excellent and I fully recommend this product to anyone wishing to upgrade.”
Anders RydholmEditor-in-Chief, Acta Orthopaedica
Great usability
“We evaluated a number of online peer review systems. We chose Manuscript Manager for our journals because it is easy to use.”
Lori BatemanJournal Publications Director, Quintessence Publishing Chicago
Quick to get going
“The program is easy to understand, easy to switch roles. Authors only see what they need to see. This will definitely be a platform that suits us.”
Arjan ConijnEditor, Journal of European Landscapes, Amsterdam University Press
Get started
Try it with your own journal
Start a free trial and set up your first workflow, or book a call, and we will walk you through it.