ScholarOne Manuscripts Ideas

ScholarOne Manuscripts Ideas is a community forum for clients to engage with each other and with the ScholarOne Product team around ways to improve the platform experience. Ideas submitted in this forum are useful in surfacing themes and items of critical importance to our users, prioritizing roadmap initiatives, and fine-tuning feature development.

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Make navigating easier for manually impaired users by improving/extending voice commands

A user with manual impairment relying on voice commands has reported difficulties navigating the platform. Whereas before we believed the challenges were limited to the report submission process (for which we offered a submission via email workaro...

Created 27 Mar 03:36am by Guest

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Change author surname field to be optional

Please consider modifying the author surname field to be optional (not required), as a means of being inclusive of individuals who have no formal surname. Only having a first name is not uncommon and you can read more about the challenges this pre...

Created 29 Sep 07:29pm by Guest

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Improvement to sending manual reminders to overdue users

We do have a separate folder which could be configured to list all the long-standing papers in the journal from where the reminders could be sent to the overdue users as required. However, consider the case of a journal which receives high volume ...

Created 23 Sep 09:10am by Parthiban Gurusamy

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Long-Standing Papers Queue

It was recently brought to our attention that the "Long-Standing Papers Queue" which allows the Admin/EiC to view the oldest papers in review (based on a configurable threshold), will no longer be supported. This queue has been incredibly helpful ...

Created 20 Aug 06:03pm by c.kurzawa@ieee.org

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Add the ability to add a manuscript flag from multiple screens instead of just the main manuscript screen

At the moment, the only place we can add a manuscript flag is from the manuscript information screen. It would be really handy if the flags option was carried over and available on multiple tabs/tasks in S1. Flags are used in a variety of differe...

Created 13 Mar 04:38pm by Guest

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bring back the quick access bar at the top!

Please bring back the bar that allows users to click only once to go to main menu, admin dashboard, etc., instead of having to first click a pulldown bar to make it appear. Please also leave the search box fixed at the top so it too doesn't have ...

Created 29 Sep 05:45pm by Sven Molter

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Warning for large attachments

It would be convenient to receive a pop-up or red-text warning when an email attachment you have selected exceeds the allowable file size. I try to be conscious of file size when sending requested files to editors/reviewers, but I often find I ha...

Created 30 Sep 12:16pm by Sven Molter

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I have a dream of a pre-production centre that's straightforward to use

I have a dream. In this dream, when accepted papers move into the pre-production centre, there is a checklist page like now but there is also a list of the files from the manuscript files tab that has one column of tick boxes next to it. This colu...

Created 29 Sep 05:45pm by Sven Molter

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Create a feature to auto add former Reviewers and Editors to a new submission using the Companion Paper section

It would be useful if Admins/Editors could have an option in the Companion Paper feature where they could click to automatically re-add the former Reviewer List and or Editor(s) to the new submission once 2 papers are linked together using the Com...

Created 7 Aug 08:59pm by jacobs.s@ieee.org

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Place "Edit this information" at top

We have a lot of custom author questions, and it takes a lot to scroll to the edit the information button when I want to change the article category. Not a big deal, but annoying. Perhaps this button (and the save button) could also be placed at t...

Created 29 Sep 05:45pm by Sven Molter

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