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The editor in charge of a manuscript is responsible of the scientific evaluation, oversee the review process, and proposes the final decision. Contrary to the current editor, the editor in charge remains the same throughout the life of the article. Let us con...

For a given article, editorial responsibility is indicated by the colored tags in the assignment module. Note that the editor in charge and the current editor can be the same person! In fact, this will be the case for most of the article life. Becoming ...

Depending on his/her profile, an editor can either propose or take a decision on a version (cf. the related editor guide). This is defined in the article workflow rights: Decisions and proposals: purposes Your journal may or may not ...

04 May 2023 Ajax everywhere Thanks to Ajax, Nestor quits refreshing whole pages each time you edit an article! Now, Nestor refreshes only necessary parts, in the background. On the whole, response times and user experience feels much faster. Editor interfac...

The due date is indicated in the upper part of the article page. The due date indicates: who must take action to move the article forward? when is the action due? According to the article status, it is used: as a deadline for the edit...

Automatic reminders are configured here, they are sorted by family of recipients: Author and referee reminders Author and referee reminders work similarly. Every morning after coffee, Nestor will check all articles submitted in the journal: for each...

File types may be configured in the journal configuration, where file types are listed, and may be created, updated, or deleted: Clicking on “Edit file type” will get you to the file type configuration, where the following options must be edited for any giv...

I cannot send my decision on this article, what happens? If the buttons are unavailable in the decision module, this means either: the status of the article does not allow a decision or your profile does not have the right to take the decision Most o...

Nestor provides a wide choice of tools to categorize articles: For a specific article, categories are available and may be corrected in the metadata module. Category name Particularities Expertise fields Tree structure Used to categ...

  Overview From the dashboard, clicking on a status will lead you to the list of articles matching the status: From this list, you can reach any article just by clicking on the reference. Articles with red statuses have their due date exceeded: Cus...

Depending on your workflow needs, your journal can use very specific labels for decisions. Some decisions will be related to scientific corrections, others may be related to copyediting or language corrections. In Nestor those labels are called "recommendation...

Creating an e-mail template is straightforward, just click here: You will be prompted with the template creation form, where you first must select an event. It is very important to select the correct event, as the system will use your template only when t...

All templates linked to your journal are stored in the templates configuration: Existing templates are sorted: First, by recipient. Each family of recipient gets a thumbnail, where all templates are stored for this family: ...

In Nestor, all users are considered potential authors or referees. Consequently, author and referee profiles are unique. For a given journal: when submitting a paper, all users will share the configuration of the author profile when reviewing a paper, all ...

Contrary to the author and referee profile, editor profiles are not unique. It is very common for a journal to configure several profiles, with different sets of rights. The reason is that editor profiles are used by people with different tasks as regards arti...

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Important e-mails are sometimes lost in the crowd and overlooked by editors. This is especially true for e-mails outside of the workflow, dealing with particular cases etc. Notifications are here to prevent this! Nestor tracks e-mails tagged as "important" a...

In Nestor, critical actions will trigger a message and update the article status / dates when necessary. There are also cases when sending an e-mail should trigger an update of the article data, such as the section, or typically, a custom field. E-mail ...

Writing in progress...    ↁ_ↁ Any enquiries? please contact us:  support@nestor-edp.org Modifying date formats {{ "now"|date("m/d/Y") }} Test variables   {% if article.articleType.code == 'LETTER' %}letter{% else %}paper{% endif %} {% if articleEnti...

Nestor uses a programming language to generate text in messages. You can harness this and use branching conditions in your templates: https://twig.symfony.com/doc/2.x/tags/index.html. The configuration is a bit technical, but will result in: modulable texts...