After a successful pilot, Springer Nature has taken the early decision to roll out ‘In Review,’ its new author submission service, across the BMC series journals.
At the end of October 2018 Springer Nature piloted ‘In Review,’ a new first-of-its-kind author service which provides a pre-publication platform, along with other author services and benefits, to open up the submission, review and editorial process. ‘In Review’ offers a detailed peer review timeline so that authors can easily track the status of their manuscript while it’s out for review, as well as share it with the wider community earlier in the submission and peer review process.
The service had been trialled on four BMC journals but received such positive take-up and feedback that the decision has been taken to roll it out and offer it as an option for all authors across more BMC journals, starting with the 50 BMC series journals.
Results from the pilot saw an opt-in rate across the four journals of 55%; for BMC Anesthesiology 64% of authors submitting papers to that journal chose to use the service. This is in comparison to under 20% take-up from other publisher / platform initiatives and 2% industry average for preprints more generally.
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