Editorial assignments
Manual assignments
Configuring a manual assignment is done at the profile level. For a given profile:
- ensure it can manage editor assignment,
- and check which profiles he can see.
For example, an Editor-in-Chief will usually have the right to assign:
- himself or another EIC
- an associate editor
- a guest editor
Automatic assignment strategies
Automatic assignments are defined on this dedicated page:
When an article lands in the status "Awaiting assignment", Nestor will check the strategies defined here and apply them if the criteria are met. The goal is to quickly dispatch articles to relevant editors based on the article metadata. The dispatch criteria can be any standard or custom field.
Stragegies are sorted by priority, with upper strategies having higher priority. As soon as a criteria is met, the strategy is applied, and lower strategies are ignored. An automatic assignment with inactive editors will always be ignored (see ⚠ in the screenshot)
For example in the screenshot above, a paper with:
- no topical issue
- in section "3. Cosmology"
- and which is a regular paper
will match the second strategy and be dispatched to Pascale and Thierry.
Strategies and filiation links
For a given strategy, multiple editors can be assigned on the fly:
When there are multiple editors in a strategy, Nestor will assign them sequentially from left to right and apply responsability rules. As such, the rightmost editor in the strategy will always be the current editor and receive the assignment notification. His parent editors are merely put in cc of the notification.
This is extremely useful to assign several affiliated editors to handle e.g. a special issue:
Editor-in-Chief > Associate Editor > Guest Editor (= current)
In that example, the Guest-Editor will be responsible for handling the peer review, and his decision proposal can be subject to validation by his parent editor (in the screenshot above: the Associate Editor).