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:
AnThe editor(incharge)charge recommends acceptance to hisparent editor:Editor-in-Chief: theparentEIC editor is now current.- The
parent editorEIC 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.same.
The
editorThisin charge notion serves two purposes:
To keepKeeping track ofwhich editorwho handled the biggest workload (useful for searches, exports and statistics)InTopeTodisplayfetchrelevant articlesoutside ofin theto-dopersonallistdashboard: