manuscript communicator

The Manuscript Communicator is a user-friendly common platform for the authors, reviewers and the editorial team members of the journals to submit, review, track and communicate the manuscripts. This journal management software allows customization and configuration as per the theme and scope of the journals.

Manuscript Communicator is a publication peer-review management system specifically built for the management of journals. The virtual platform of the Manuscript Communicator minimizes the effort required for record keeping and other management issues faced in offline manuscript management and journal publications. The Manuscript Communicator is designed with the objective of streamlining the manuscript submission, peer-review, acceptance and publication. Safety and security of the manuscript against unauthorized usage is another field that is taken care of by the system.

Highlights

Manuscript Communicator - Journal Management software

Role based platform for the users

Manuscript Communicator is a user-friendly platform for the users who can login, create their own account and get their credentials for subsequent logins. Based on their roles, the users can login as:

Authors: Submission, resubmission, tracking of manuscripts and their movement through out the process of publication can be accomplished.
Editorial team members: Tasks attributed to the various roles can be accomplished through the Manuscript Communicator that includes review, make decision and communication.
Reviewers: External reviewers get a platform to accept, review and submit the review manuscripts.

Online Submission and tracking

The Manuscript Communicator acts as a portal for submitting the manuscript by furnishing the details about the manuscript, uploading different files regarding the title page, article, tables and figures as mandated for the type of the manuscript.

The details of the manuscript, files uploaded and phases of the manuscript publication can be accessed through the dashboard after the online submission.

Editorial dashboard for easy access

This is a single click task management dashboard that assists the members for efficient task assignment, tracking, communication and management.

The editorial team members get access to all the tasks, manuscripts and decisions about the manuscripts assigned to them.

Customization and settings

The Manuscript Communicator is customizable and user friendly which provides an opportunity to tweak the Manuscript Communicator to comply with the aim, scope and themes of the Journal.

The settings for the various aspects of the submission, assignment of tasks, review, duration of tasks and making decisions can be configured as per requirement by entering the details and choosing from varied functions and settings.

Online task assignment

Assignment of tasks and their follow up can be efficiently managed by the editorial board members through the Manuscript Communicator.

The communication of the task assignments, decisions and reminders can be done with the click of a button that sends automated emails about the actions.

Reviewer’s dashboard

Login for the reviewers provides access to their own dashboard and options to add comments online within the Manuscript Communicator.

The manuscript assigned can be accessed, tracked, reviewed and submitted through the Manuscript Communicator by following self explanatory steps.

Analytics

A comprehensive report about the submission, decisions and phases of the publication of an issue of the journal can be obtained in a graphical representation, accessible to all members of the editorial team. Analytics can be generated based on the following data points:

Duration of phases of publication of a manuscript.
Types of manuscripts submitted to the journal.
Number of users of the Manuscript Communicator and their roles.
Manuscript statistics.

Features

User friendly platform

Exclusive logins for users

End to end tracking of the manuscript

Complete control on the features to the journal editorial office

Easy assignment of roles and tasks involved in journal publication

Dashboard to track manuscript status

Archiving of the manuscript versions

Automated and pre-set reminders to all the users

Guidelines for authors and reviewers

Editable email templates for communication

Analytics - Quick look graphical reports

Secure manuscript management

Testimonials

It is my pleasure to state that, as an Editor-in-Chief, I am at ease after incorporating the Manuscript Communicator as part of our iSee Journals publication process. It has offloaded a lot of responsibilities from my shoulder due to its streamlined and easy to use features…there are pre-drafted emails for communication with manuscript submission history. The configuration features, accessibility to reviewers, assignment of tasks is just click-of a button-away, I am truly satisfied with the product.

Prof. Natarajan Gajendran

Editor-in-Chief, INDJST

Chennai, India

We have used the manuscript communicator and allied services for journal management and publication services. The user-friendly features, configuration settings are the most impressive of the array of features of the manuscript communicator. The manuscript communicator impressed us so much that we visited its creators in India and have made an understanding to promote the product at our region.

Mohammed Qadi

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Our association with SCIRESOL has been robust since it's inception. SCIRESOL has withstood the testing time in bringing the JMDR journal to the present state with the IDEA association. We look forward to achieving newer scales in the future.

Dr Shanthala B M

Found Secretary

IDEA

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