Editor in charge and personal dashboard

The editor in charge of a manuscript is responsible of the scientific evaluation, oversee the review process, and proposes or takes the final decision. Contrary to the current editor, the editor in charge remains the same throughout the life of the article.

Let us consider the following examples:

• An editor (in charge) recommends acceptance to his parent editor: the parent editor is now current.
• The parent editor accepts the article and pass it on to a copy editor, the copy editor is now current.
• Meanwhile, the editor in charge remained the same, as he handled the review process.

 

This notion serves two purposes:

• To keep track of which editor handled the biggest workload (useful for searches, exports and statistics)
• In peTo fetch articles outside of the to-do list