April 28, 2020 – London | Singapore – IOP Publishing (IOPP) has announced a full integration of its article submission system ScholarOne with the Editage Online System, allowing authors using Editage services to submit directly to IOPP.
Marc Gillett, head of publishing operations at IOPP, said, “We know that authors find entering manuscript information into multiple systems frustrating, and that they can spend up to 14 hours formatting a manuscript for submission. IOPP already allows format-free submissions to all its journals to reduce unnecessary administration for our authors. We developed the integration with Editage and Clarivate Analytics so that key information from the edited manuscript – such as the article title and author details – is automatically passed from Editage to ScholarOne, further reducing the administrative burden.”
“We also expect this development to support peer reviewers. Our research with reviewers highlighted the problem of papers being rejected due to the quality of the writing, rather than the quality of the science. Reviewers are under more pressure than ever to return reviewed manuscripts quickly. We expect this development to help reviewers focus on the science rather than the writing. This will benefit reviewers, authors, and the scientific community,” Gillett adds.
Editage’s Nikesh Gosalia, Senior Vice President, Global Academic & Publisher Relations, said, “We have been offering language editing and plagiarism and technical checks to IOPP authors since 2016. These services have proven very popular with their authors, with over 75 percent of them rating the service as ‘Outstanding’ in 2019.”
Gosalia adds, “Besides the responsiveness and high-quality guarantee of edited documents, owing to a powerful team of subject-matter specialists, native-English editors, and professional reviewers, we have been able to deliver every client order in just three to four business days. Similarly, this integration makes the process from manuscript preparation to journal submission a lot faster and smoother, and will usher in a paradigm shift in the way other publishers design their submission processes.”
Authors can submit their final article and access other manuscript preparation services at editing.iopscience.iop.org.
About Editage Founded in 2002, Editage (editage.com) has so far helped over 430,000 authors publish around 1.2 million research papers in scholarly journals across over 1000 disciplines through editorial, translation, transcription, and publication support services. Editage is a brand of Cactus Communications (cactusglobal.com), a global scientific communications company that also offers strategic and tactical scientific content solutions to global life science organizations (Cactus Life Sciences); an AI-powered tool and marketplace that brings together researchers and journals and enhances the efficiency of scholarly publishing (PubSURE); solutions for science dissemination and engagement with peers, public, and policymakers for wider research outreach (Impact Science); and AI tools and solutions for publishers to grow business opportunities and improve publishing workflows (UNSILO). Its innovation and R&D cell (Cactus Labs) powers all CACTUS businesses with latest technologies. CACTUS also incubates seed and early-stage startups that share its mission to solve global problems with science and technology solutions. It has offices in London, Princeton, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Aarhus, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Mumbai; a global workforce of over 3,000 experts; and customers from over 190 countries.
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