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6.20 - Improved files management, linking existing accounts
30 January 2025 File transfers The way we handle file transfers and storage has received a mu...
6.30 - Automatic renaming and stand as
17 March 2025 File types: automatic renaming This feature used to apply only during the auth...
6.40 - Document counters, automatic computations based on metadata
1 April 2025 File types: pages and words counting This nice feature allows editorial offices ...
6.50 - new user exports, referee invitation, stop production
14 May 2025 Authors and editors exports Following the referees' activity last year, we releas...
6.60 - Metadata configuration, unfolded articles flag, LaTeX extractions
16 June 2025 Standard, special and custom fields now all benefit from a unified configuration:...
6.70 - Prophy referee suggestions
15 July 2025 Prophy integration summary: https://doc.nestor-edp.org/books/editor-guide/page/re...
7.00 - Metadata & questionnaire configuration
8 September 2025 Metadata configuration Following 6.60, metadata benefit from a series of upd...
7.10 - Search criteria, system events, referee form, warnings
13 November 2025 New criteria for advanced searches Two cool date criteria are now available ...
7.20 - Duplicate submission warning, relaxed reverts
12 January 2026 Duplicate submission warning Before creating a new submission, Nestor will ch...
7.30 - Coauthors Cc, LaTeX addresses extraction, lax ORCID account linking
4 March 2026 E-mail: more copies to coauthors The new version of Nestor allows you to put coa...
7.40 - CRediT
21 April 2026 Submission: implementation of the contributor role taxonomy Nestor now allows a...
What is the status of my article?
In your author dashboard, the workflow has been divided into functional steps (who is working on ...
Statistics
Day-to-day statistics To prepare statistics on articles, you can use advanced searches and data ...
How does editorial responsibility switch?
For a given article, editorial responsibility is indicated by the colored tags in the assignment ...
Upper area: the main information
The main information module is located in the upper area. It contains the most important info...
Assigning editors
If you are an Editor-in-Chief, you will likely assign articles to other editors (e.g. Associate E...
Taking the editorial decision
Accessing decisions Once expected reports are received on a version, the article will switch t...
Dashboards, status and counters
Nestor dashboards offer a quick overview of the journal activity, sorting articles by status an...
Configuration of automatic reminders
Automatic reminders are configured here, they are sorted by family of recipients: Author a...
Finding/creating a referee
In the referee module, click on the ‘Invite a referee’ button. You can search a referee...