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13 November 2025 New criteria for advanced searches Two cool date criteria are now available to create dynamic searches: New system events Two system events are now implemented properly: "Resubmission after technical check": after a technical ch...

12 January 2026 Duplicate submission warning Before creating a new submission, Nestor will check if the author already has a paper ongoing. The idea is to prevent unintended duplicates at revision. Relaxed reverts In order to simplify workflow correc...

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4 March 2026 E-mail: more copies to coauthors The new version of Nestor allows you to put coauthors in cc of some messages sent to the corresponding author. This way, coauthors are better informed about the evaluation process. For this to work, you will ne...

21 April 2026 Submission: implementation of the contributor role taxonomy Nestor now allows authors to indicate the roles of co-authors for a given paper. This follows the CRediT specification. as defined here. This must be activated in the article type co...

16/06/2026 Orcid peer review activity Nestor is now able to update the peer review activity in ORCID. For this to work, the referee must link his ORCID when uploading the report: The feature is available only for future reports, and must be performed im...

A request of revision must be created with the event: "Request for revision": Once the template is created, it must also be linked to a specific recommendation:

Article type configuration The technical check workflow is first defined at the article type level. For each article type, you can enable/disable the technical check, and set up the time granted to the author to satisfy the technical check: Profile c...

Manual assignments Configuring a manual assignment is done at the profile level. For a given profile: ensure it can manage editor assignment, and check which profiles he can see. For example, an Editor-in-Chief will usually have the right to assign: ...

Configuration of the referee questionnaire First, configure your questions to the referee here: Article type configuration Once the questionnaire is ready, activate the peer review and set up the questionnaire in each relevant article type.  For each...

The workflow is divided into statuses, an article will go through a series of statuses to reach a final decision. Below is a diagram of the Nestor workflow. For each status, Nestor expects an action from the indicated user, and use the due date to calculate d...

03/09/2026 Automatic assignment strategies The automatic assignment feature has received a long-awaited makeover! The old configuration settings (article type/section/topical) have been discarded to make room for a dedicated page: When an article lands ...

The behaviour of Nestor at login differs according to the user's profile and activity. Depending on the following priorities, the user will either land on the author, referee or editor dashboard: If the user is editor of the journal, he/she will always lan...