PeerTrack™ Manuscript Submission, Tracking, and Peer Review

PeerTrack™, a web-based manuscript submission, tracking, and peer review software program, will perform all of the vital editorial office tracking functions. Using the system, authors submit original and revised manuscripts, editorial staff send manuscripts out for peer review, reviewers conduct reviews and return comments, and editors make final decisions. This program is designed for editorial personnel who require data entry, data retrieval, correspondence, reporting, workflow control, manuscript file management, and database access from office, lab, home, or the road.

Powered by Aries Editorial Manager® technology, PeerTrack can be quickly and easily deployed in a variety of workflows, with the flexibility to mesh into each journal’s established processes. This system has a proven record and is capable of organizing, simplifying, and accelerating the peer review process through an easy-to-use interface and timely setup.

Benefits
 

Save valuable time and energy
Reduce administrative effort within editorial offices/teams, especially logging in of manuscripts and standard correspondence, which become automated processes. Tracking manuscripts online significantly reduces the length of time from submission to acceptance, making your publication more appealing to authors. The use of automatic e-mails and instant notification saves journal staff time. The savings in time, expense, and energy for most journals easily offsets the cost of PeerTrack.

AUTHORS love PeerTrack because of its updated look and feel, ease of use, faster turnaround through streamlined internal and external handling, and access to status information.

REVIEWERS enjoy reliable delivery and the ability to provide certain information, such as comments and recommendations, online.

EDITORS benefit from readily available information to assist with selection of reviewers, reduction of paperwork, and automatic organization of workload.

Tailor the system to meet individual publication workflow needs
PeerTrack offers hundreds of configuration options that enable tailoring of the system to meet individual publication workflow needs without costly engineering change requests. With PeerTrack, you need not wait for software modifications when your needs change. Configuration options include user registration options, author submission forms and questions, unlimited article types and upload items, classifications and keyword terms, unlimited e-mail templates, unlimited custom reports, unlimited user roles and permissions, links to third-party bibliographic databases, transfer of files and XML to production systems, unlimited reviewer scoresheet questions, and forms by article type. The Allen Press application support team will assist you with configuration of the system and will provide ongoing support and training.

Stay on schedule with automatic reminders and instant tracking
PeerTrack allows you to instantly see where each and every manuscript is at any stage of the reviewing process. It also provides you with automatic reminders of material that is overdue and allows the editorial office to send automated group e-mail messages to tardy reviewers, authors, and editors.

Speed up manuscript review for rapid turnaround
PeerTrack allows for a brisk turnaround. Authors have the advantage of seeing their papers accepted in a more timely fashion because of the automation. PeerTrack includes a number of features that can significantly enhance the editorial process and reduce production time. PeerTrack fully integrates these functions into the peer review process so that the tasks are performed automatically at configurable checkpoints in the workflow:

• Reference linking and reformatting to journal style using eXtyles®
• Integrated author, title, classification, and keyword searches on the bibliographic databases of your choice (such as Medline® and Google™ Scholar)

Streamline reviewer selection with categorization and reviewer rating tools
PeerTrack automatically allows you to categorize reviewers and choose and notify the best candidates at the click of a mouse. It also has a built-in rating system so you can rate reviewers for future assignments.

Stay up-to-date with no additional charges or headaches for new software versions or upgrades
Updates to PeerTrack are automatic and ongoing. There is no additional charge for a new version update. There are no IT staff members to hire to maintain and upgrade your system. Maintenance and upgrades are all-inclusive in the contract. For those societies and associations who require specialized programming, programming services are available at competitive rates.

Enjoy peace of mind with a reliable hosting infrastructure, disaster recovery provisions, state-of-the-art security, and continuity of service
PeerTrack stores data that are mission critical to publishing enterprises. Disaster recovery, continuity of service, and data security are essential attributes of an enterprise-class system.

Attract an international audience and authors
PeerTrack can help you increase the number and ease the handling of international manuscripts. Because submission, review, revision, and acceptance are done online, long postal delays are eliminated. A 10–20% increase in manuscript submission is common for clients who choose PeerTrack, especially from journals that accept international manuscripts.

Maintain more accurate data
The PeerTrack system allows participants to update their personal information. With so many editors, reviewers, and authors, you are bound to have those who change contact information throughout the year. PeerTrack allows them to update their contact information with the use of a user ID and password. This assures a more accurate database. It also allows for an alternate contact listing for those going on vacation, on sabbatical, or to a conference.

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