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Editorial Work and Decisions

Following submissions in the queue, screening them, inviting reviewers, issuing decisions and corresponding with authors.

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See the submissions in scope (editor queue)

Editors follow submissions on the Editorial → Editor queue screen. A submission goes through screening, moves on to peer review and ends with a decision. The Next step card on the submission's page says what needs to be done at that moment.

The Section editor screens submissions, invites reviewers, corresponds with the author and records a decision recommendation. The Editor-in-chief also issues the final decision, assigns editors to submissions and manages the journal settings. The System administrator cannot issue final decisions. If a role was granted for one journal, only that journal's submissions are visible.

If the system administrator has made two-factor authentication mandatory for editorial roles, your editor permissions do not work until you set it up. The set-up is described in Using Two-Factor Authentication. Start by getting to know the Editor Queue screen.

Topics in this section

How-to guides

  • Screening a Submission

    Checking the form of a new submission, asking the author for missing documents and sending the submission to peer review.

  • Desk-Rejecting a Submission

    Rejecting an out-of-scope or unsuitable submission without sending it to reviewers, or saving a rejection recommendation for it.

  • Assigning Editors

    Assigning a handling editor, section editor or editor-in-chief to a submission and removing an assignment.

  • Inviting Reviewers

    Inviting a reviewer to a submission under review, from the reviewer pool or by e-mail address.

  • Tracking Invitations and Reviews

    Following the status and deadlines of invitations on the Reviewers tab, reading reviews, changing deadlines, cancelling an invitation or inviting a reviewer again.

  • Making a Decision

    Reading the reviews of a review round and making the final decision, or saving a decision recommendation as a section editor.

  • Starting a New Round After a Revision

    Making a decision directly after the author submits a revision, or sending the submission to a new review round.

  • Messaging the Author

    Sending messages to the author from the Messages tab of a submission, writing internal notes between editors and following the correspondence.

  • Submitting on Behalf of an Author

    Opening a submission draft for a registered author account, filling in the metadata, authors and files, and leaving the draft to the author.

  • Downloading the Referee Dossier

    Downloading the referee dossier of a submission, which TR Dizin asks for, as a single PDF.

Screens and settings

  • Editor Queue

    The quick filters, filters, columns and sorting of the screen where editors follow submissions.

  • Editor Submission Screen

    The header, Next step card, tabs, cards and rules of the screen where an editor opens a submission.

  • On-Behalf Submission Screen

    The New draft card of the screen where editors open a draft for a registered author, and the list of the drafts they started.

  • On-Behalf Draft Screen

    The header, the Metadata, Authors, Files and Status tabs and the rules of the screen where you fill in a draft opened for an author.

Concepts

  • Separation of Duties

    An editor who reviewed a submission cannot decide on it, authors take no role on their own submissions, and only the editor-in-chief makes final decisions.

Troubleshooting

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How-to guides

Concepts

  • Peer Review Types

    What authors and reviewers see of each other in double-anonymous, single-anonymous and open review, and when the type is set.

  • Reviewer Deadlines and Reminders

    The response and review periods of reviewer invitations, when reminders go out and how unanswered invitations close.

Troubleshooting

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