5.80 - Editorial assignment tool, correcting co-authors addresses, workflow dates

29 July 2024

More information on the assignment tool

Editors-in-Chief will now benefit from a revamped interface to assign papers, where all the necessary information is summarized:

Active editors

Expertise fields of each editor

Current workload

Various warnings (availability, conflicts of interest)

This will be activated by default and can be disabled in the profile configuration. Ensure to inform your EICs in advance!

To disable:

Correcting co-authors addresses

Pending co-authors (with a question mark) sometimes need their addresses to be corrected, especially their invitation to be sent back again. This is now possible:

Workflow dates more up-to-date

2 subtle changes to the due date and the last action date.

In article lists, editors can identify relevant papers to work on thanks to these dates:

Concerning the last action date, it will be updated when the following events are executed:

Message from editor to author

Message from editor to referee

Message from editor to editor (provided the sender is the editor in charge)

Concerning the article due date, it will be automatically postponed in one very specific case: when an editor manually reminds a referee. With this postponment, the article will not appear red any more in article lists.