Online submission system provider Aries Systems Corporation, US, has announced a partnership with ProQuest to empower journal editors with reviewer discovery utility. Submitted manuscripts can now be automatically matched with reviewers drawn from an external pool of more than 3.5 million curated scholar profiles.
Using an Application Programming Interface (API), Editorial Manager transmits manuscript metadata to the ProQuest Pivot service, which streamlines workflow in university research offices. The proprietary software algorithms of Pivot create a digital 'fingerprint' from the metadata, match the fingerprint to its embedded collection of scholar profiles, and then generate a relevance-ranked candidate reviewer list.
Editors can click on names to view biographic and bibliographic details including CrossRef links to candidates' published articles. This makes it quick and easy for editors working in Editorial Manager to find and assess the viability of candidates as reviewers for manuscripts under consideration.
On the same web page, editors can then conveniently invite selected reviewers. Editorial Manager takes care of downstream workflow activities such as email notifications, due date tracking, reminders, review submission, etc.
Aries Systems will market the solution under the product name of 'Reviewer Discovery.' For a limited time, journals can evaluate Reviewer Discovery at no charge for a three-month period; thereafter annual fees apply. Reviewer Discovery can be activated in Editorial Manager Version 10.1 (currently in Beta Test and planned for initial release in June 2013). It will be available for demonstration in the exhibit hall at the upcoming SSP Annual Meeting in San Francisco on June 5-7.
