5.50 - Landing pages, secure deep links, article history for authors, production workflow
21 March 2024 🌻🌼🌹
Landing page behaviour
The behaviour of Nestor at login has been refined according to your profile and activity. Depending on the following priorities, you will either land on the author, referee or editor dashboard:
- If you are editor of the journal, you will always land on the editor dashboard
- Otherwise, if you have pending articles as referee, landing on the referee dashboard
- Otherwise, if you have active articles as author, landing on the author dashboard
- Otherwise, if you have active articles as coauthor, landing on the coauthor dashboard
- Finally, if none of the above apply, you will land on the author dashboard.
This behaviour will help people to easily identify actions they have to undertake.
Secure deep links
Referees and co-authors are the people likely to receive invitations via Nestor deep links. When using those, users will now be restricted to the action page they are invited to. If they want to check their whole Nestor activity, those users will be prompted to log in, using their credentials.
Disconnection warnings, autosaved referee reports
Nestor will now warn you if you have been disconnected while performing an action. This will help prevent data loss.
In the same vein, referee reports are now saved automatically during the course of the drafting.
Referee contact form
Referees can now contact the editor directly from the report page:
Article history now available to authors
New production statuses
The production workflow has been refined again with three new statuses, triggered by specific actions. This will help authors and editors to get a better understanding of the article history during the production process.
| Action |
Old status |
New status |
| Author sends corrections on proof |
--> In production |
Proof correction |
| EO sends corrections on proof | --> In production | EO proof correction |
| EO validates proof | --> In production | EO proof validation |