by Leah Kristensen | Nov 15, 2017 | Best Practices, Peer Review, Tips for editors
The Reviewer experience Peer review is the key to maintaining the high academic standards of our scholarly journals, yet how often do we think about the external reviewer experience”? Let’s take a look at the peer reviewer experience and be sure that we are...
by Leah Kristensen | Nov 9, 2017 | Best Practices, Peer Review, Tips for editors
Registering areas of expertise Registering Areas of Expertise External reviewers all have specific areas of expertise, but how they are registered can have a big impact on both the journal and the reviewer experience. Valuable contributors The peer...
by Leah Kristensen | Nov 1, 2017 | Best Practices, Peer Review, Tips for editors
Checking for plagiarism Considerations when checking for plagiarism As an editor, when is it worth your while to check for plagiarism and when is intuitive screening enough? Online plagiarism tools can be extremely useful, but does every manuscript need to be...
by Leah Kristensen | Oct 30, 2017 | Peer Review, Tips for editors
Inviting external reviewers Inviting external reviewers: how many? when? How many external reviewers should be invited to review a manuscript and at which point? Is there an industry norm or recommended strategy, and what features would be necessary to support...
by Leah Kristensen | Oct 27, 2017 | Best Practices, Peer Review, Tips for editors
Your Journal’s Review Time Review Time There has been a big push over the last 10 years to get academic work published as quickly as possible. As time to publication becomes more and more critical, there is a trend to make review times shorter now than before....
by Leah Kristensen | Oct 20, 2017 | Best Practices, Peer Review, Tips for editors
Should your peer review move online? When is an online editorial management system necessary? Many academic journal editors struggle with the question of whether it is necessary to convert to a web-based peer review system. While it’s no secret that an online...