Did you know? Authors can recommend Reviewers

Editorial Manager can be configured to permit Authors to “Suggest Reviewers” during manuscript submission. Some journals find that providing Authors’ recommendations saves Editors time and may increase the relevance of reviews.

Editors can easily find and assign suggested Reviewers by selecting “Suggested by Author” from the Reviewer Search drop-down box. If suggested Reviewers are not already in the journal database, it only takes a few clicks for the Editor to register and invite the new Reviewer.

Screenshot showing results of a search in which one Reviewer suggested by Author was found in the journal database, and another Reviewer suggested was not found

If you need help configuring this feature, please contact your Aries Account Coordinator, who will be happy to assist.

Journal production covered at the CSE Annual Meeting

At the Council of Science Editors’ Annual Meeting, two Aries customers were among panelists in the session 20 – Journals Production: Workflows, Efficiency, and Metrics.

The American Meteorological Society and the American Society of Civil Engineers, both Preprint Manager users, addressed efficient workflow management.

In related news, Aries’ Director of Product Management, Tony Alves, has been appointed CSE Program Co-Chair for 2013.

ORCID and Contributor ID update

At the recent ORCID Outreach Meeting, Richard Wynne, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Aries, presented Aries’ phased implementation of ORCID and discussed potential benefits of ORCID integration with journal workflow.

Wolters Kluwer, Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Springer Science+Business Media announced that they will be early adopters of ORCID in conjunction with Editorial Manager.

In the last newsletter, we asked readers to tell us which is their preferred standard for identification (ISNI, ORCID, PubMed Author ID, Researcher ID, or Scopus ID). Though responses to the survey were sparse, all respondents selected ORCID.

Register for EMUG today!

The 10th Annual Editorial Manager User Group (EMUG) Meeting will be held this week – on Thursday, June 21 and Friday, June 22! Download the agenda to see the compelling line up of session topics and guest speakers.

There are still a few spaces left, but please register soon if you plan to attend. We hope to see you there!

California Dental Association deploys Editorial Manager

The Journal of the California Dental Association recently adopted Editorial Manager Software-as-a-Service for manuscript submission and peer review. Visit the EM submission site, www.editorialmanager.com/jcaldentassoc.

Thieme selects Editorial Manager for Global Spine Journal

Thieme, an award-winning medical and science publisher with offices around the world, recently activated EM for Global Spine Journal.

A single language (English) was chosen for this journal’s submission site, which may be accessed here. The EM submission site of another Thieme journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, accessed here, is in German.

South African Thoracic Society chooses Editorial Manager

Aries is pleased to announce that the South African Thoracic Society has selected EM as the workflow solution for South African Respiratory Journal.

According to Professor Keertan Dheda, “Having used Editorial Manager frequently as a contributing author for numerous publications, I was well aware of its ease of use and the efficiencies brought about by the web-based system. Additional research proved it to be the option offering the right combination of configurability, features, and price.”