At PA EDitorial, we have earned our exceptional reputation by going above and beyond to provide a truly outstanding, personalised service for each of our clients.
Some of the world’s most well-known academic publishing houses trust PA EDitorial to manage their journals. They know that our broad experience and ability to transform problematic journals with efficient workflows means they can concentrate on the research while we deliver a smooth-running operation.
We specialise in peer review management and offer our clients the highest level of support by developing intricate but effective workflows while adapting easily to the preferences and work styles of a wide range of clients.
Our Team
We’re a team of over 40 highly experienced managing editors specialising in peer review management. We offer the highest level of support by developing intricate but effective workflows while adapting easily to the preferences and work styles of a wide range of clients.
Our team provide support, quality management and escalation points for all journal teams and publishers.
They have:
- Expert knowledge of various submission systems, ScholarOne manuscripts and Editorial Manager, including setup and configuration
- A detailed understanding of supporting Society Titles, including FEMS, EACTS, EHJ, ISCB and many more
Our Team's Capabilities
- Action submissions within 48 hours
- Administer the journal mailbox – responding to questions and queries within 24 hours (excluding holidays and weekends)
- Assist authors, reviewers and editors
- Ensure action is taken every week using the overdue manuscripts report
- Invite submissions
- Keeping track of submissions
- Manage copyright transfer agreements
- Manage new submissions (original, revised and resubmitted)
- Offer technical support to all journal contributors
- Provide in-house holiday cover
- Provide journal reporting: annual, monthly and ad hoc reports
- Have first-hand experience using WoS, iThenticate and UAR
- Support editors to create and deliver each issue’s table of contents
- Take online and telephone meetings
- Undertake day-to-day peer-review journal management
- Engage in long-standing publisher contracts, proving loyalty, service satisfaction, dedication and experience
They also:
- Action submissions within 48 hours
- Administer the journal mailbox – responding to questions and queries within 24 hours (excluding holidays and weekends)
- Assist authors, reviewers and editors
- Ensure action is taken every week using the overdue manuscripts report
- Invite submissions
- Keep track of submissions
- Manage copyright transfer agreements
- Manage new submissions (original, revised and resubmitted)
- Offer technical support to all journal contributors
- Provide in-house holiday cover
- Provide journal reporting: annual, monthly and ad hoc reports
- Have first-hand experience using WoS, iThenticate and UAR
- Support editors to create and deliver each issue’s table of contents
- Take online and telephone meetings
- Undertake day-to-day peer-review journal management
- Engage in long-standing publisher contracts, proving loyalty, service satisfaction, dedication and experience
Our Commitment
Our flexibility means we can work with publishers and journals, creating bespoke packages to suit every need.
As a result, our business is adaptable and able to accommodate projects of all sizes.
To assist all journal contributors, we have compiled some handy tips:
System Support Services
Our team have expert knowledge of ScholarOne Editorial Manager, EJournalPress, OJS, EES, Evise and PXP.
Some of the world’s most well-known academic publishing houses trust PA EDitorial to manage their journals. They know that our broad experience and ability to transform problematic journals with efficient workflows means that they can concentrate on the research while we deliver a smooth-running operation.
Our team have migrated several journals, with either partial or no previous use of peer-review submission systems, to a new submission platform. In addition, we have assisted publishers in moving journals from an existing platform to a mainstream or bespoke platform.
Our senior team undertake regular site reviews on each journal managed by PA EDitorial. This provides them with excellent, in-depth knowledge of all the hundreds of different workflow options each journal chooses to utilise. In turn, this gives us the knowledge and understanding needed to provide our clients with the relevant system support.
Submission Systems
If you already have editorial support in place but need additional help with your submission systems, our team can step in and provide a site review. We will run through a well-established list of checks and questions and assist your journal team in implementing the most efficient workflow. Further to this, we can provide submission system configuration assistance.
Get in touch for more details or provide us with your exact requirements so we can help you establish the best way forward.
What We Do
- Provide submission site reviews
- Submission system maintenance
- Invite submissions
- Manage special and thematic issues
- Day-to-day peer review journal management
- Administering the journal mailbox (responding to questions and queries)
- Conduct video and telephone meetings where needed, particularly when offering support and training
- Source and invite peer reviewers
- Conduct journal reporting (annual, monthly and ad hoc reports)
- Manage book reviews
- Offer editor training
- Managing new submissions (original, revised and resubmitted)
- Assisting editors, authors and reviewers
- Experience using Moodle, Asana, TEAMS and various other management systems
Proofreading is about finalising your work to ensure it is polished and professional. It comes at the end of the writing process and is the ultimate and final check before your work is released into the world.
Journal Launch Services
With a team of expert publishers on board, we are able to support you with the launch of your first journal.
Journal Launch: Case Study
PA EDitorial Ltd was approached by The Delirium Society (a society where members regularly submit and publish manuscripts to various medical journals), which didn’t have the option to submit their manuscripts to a journal specifically dedicated to Delirium.
They wanted to establish a pair of journals – one selective, one inclusive – to respectively increase the quality and quantity of knowledge in the field. The journals aimed to be continuously published online, with open access but modest APCs. Their ambition was to pass savings to authors and lower barriers to publication.
The Delirium Society recruited 30 of its members to join their editorial board, who would be able to represent the diversity of the professional backgrounds and practice settings.
Our team guided and assisted them throughout the journal launch process, taking them every step of the way to their launch date.
🎉 We have assisted publishers before with launching #newjournals, but this is PA EDitorial’s first launch of a journal without a publisher to manage everything outside of the #peerreview process.
— PA EDitorial Ltd (@PAEDITORIAL) March 16, 2022
🎉We are so proud of @DeliriumCommsJ & @DeliriumJournal. #WDAD2022 https://t.co/CDt10cxVw0
Reporting Services
Reporting, spreadsheets and data are necessary, essential and significantly help publishers and editorial boards understand what is happening with their journals.
However, here at PA EDitorial, we know that undertaking such processes isn’t for everyone. So, to support our clients further, we introduced a dedicated reporting specialist to our team.
Our team have all the essential skills and training to create reports for our clients, especially those with other journal priorities, but it is PA Editorial’s Reporting Manager who has created hundreds of straightforward and accessible reports for our journals, whether they be annual or quarterly status reports, ad hoc reports for special issues, submission information or editor assessments and bespoke reports tailored to the needs of our clients.
Looking for a hybrid delivery model?
EDiTech combines the scalability and efficiency of offshore resource with experienced onshore management,
oversight and quality assurance – giving you a single, accountable PA EDitorial team.
Giving You Back Your Time
PA EDitorial can provide reports on almost anything you need (system allowing), yet we don’t need to manage your journal to create them: we can pop into your system, create the reports, and pop back out again.
If you require specific information for your journal and don’t have the time to learn how to use reporting tools such as Cognos (the editorial managers reporting tool), get in touch, and we will be able to help.
