6.00 - Refreshed articles, sorting expertise fields, referee exports

2 October 2024

Refreshed articles

In Nestor lists, delayed articles are tagged in red:

This color is solely based on the article due date, whether it has passed or not.

In some journals, this proved confusing for editors, who expects the color 'red' to reflect if an editorial action is needed or not. In particular, they expect the paper to revert to a normal color when they execute an action (based on last action date):

This new behaviour is configurable by article type. When activated, this option will temporarily 'refresh' the paper where an editorial action has just been taken.

Sorting expertise fields

At long last, expertise fields can be sorted in the configuration pages. The order will be reflected in user pages (account creation and consultation) and article pages (submission and edition).

Referee exports

List of referees can now be exported, based on specific search results. For example, one can look at all reports submitted in 2024. The data is complete but still in raw format, we are working on providing an Excel template to get usable statistics.

Terminate or close the article before technical check!

We have disabled this workflow security. Beforehand, a paper could not be rejected directly when registration was pending. This simple feature is available to editorial offices straight out of the box.

Fix the editors' list at any given time

Yet another workflow simplification. This simple feature is available to all EIC/EO, no configuration is needed.

Reset referee reports (be careful!)

Referee reports can now be deleted altogether. This should be used carefully, to correct specific referee cases/mistakes. The action can only be executed when the following conditions are met:
- a report can be reset only on a current version
- the article is being evaluated (status)