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✨ Happy New Year from Scholastica! ✨ As we enter 2025, we extend a heartfelt thank you to our amazing community of scholarly journal editors, publishers, and partners. Cheers to your ongoing efforts to disseminate novel research with the power to change the world. Here's to new opportunities, challenges, and successes in the year ahead! 🥳

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🎊 As 2025 approaches, the Scholastica team has New Year's resolutions on our minds to help journals optimize their peer review and publishing processes. Last #JournalTipsTuesday, we covered automation opportunities to speed up editorial workflows. Today, we're focusing on resolutions to make life easier for peer reviewers. Let's get to it! 💡 Why prioritize your reviewer experience in the new year? First, as the often unsung heroes of scholarly publishing who freely give their time and expertise to advance scholarship — reviewers deserve support. Are we right?! By optimizing your reviewer experience, you'll also increase the likelihood of reviewers wanting to work with you again. So it's a win-win! Steps journals can take to improve their reviewer experience in the new year include: 1️⃣ Take a data-driven approach to reviewer outreach First, we recommend keeping tabs on how frequently you reach out to each of your reviewers and any pending assignments they have so you can ensure you're not making too many requests of the same individuals. Tracking the average # of days it takes each reviewer to complete an assignment can also provide a helpful window into their bandwidth — reviewers who tend to submit assignments on the wire (or late) may need a break. Journals can use the above data to implement an internal reviewer rating system (e.g., via tags added to reviewer profiles) to help editors more easily determine which reviewers to invite back and which to hold off on contacting. We also recommend tracking reviewers' specialties in a searchable/sortable database so it's easy for editors to identify the best-fit reviewers for submissions. 2️⃣ Clarify reviewer expectations Sending clear and concise reviewer invitations that include an overview of the manuscript's topic and an estimate of the time commitment the review will take can also go a long way. Additionally, we recommend implementing a structured peer review process if you haven't already. By that, we mean providing reviewers with a feedback form that includes a required series of questions all reviews should cover, so reviewers don't have to guess about which areas of the manuscript they need to respond to (e.g., don't assume everyone will know to address the methods section). 3️⃣ Recognize your reviewers Finally, remember recognition matters! Some specific ideas for recognizing reviewers from the 2024 ISMTE Headquarters conference included: ☑ Sending personal thank you notes ☑ Holding receptions for top contributors (e.g., during scholarly society meetings) ☑ Highlighting reviewer contributions in public profiles at the end of the year (e.g., posting photos/bios of the top 10 reviewers on social media) ☑ Offering to send a letter of recognition to the reviewer's PI or institutional dept head as a formal way to show the impact of their work 🎁 Wrap up We hope you found these tips helpful. Do you have any to add? Let us know in the comments! #scholarlypublishing

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Many are weighing in on ways to better the author experience from the editor and publisher perspective. But what's the opinion of scholars? 🤔 We decided to ask: https://lnkd.in/gGkWstKb #scholarlypublishing #peerreview #authorexperience

❄️ Taking a winter break and looking to get caught up on journal publishing best practices? Check out the Scholastica resources page for handy guides and webinars on peer review optimization, metadata management, OA publishing, and more! https://lnkd.in/eBHxmcqU

🥳 The new year is nearly here! Have you made any resolutions to optimize your journal publishing workflows in 2025? This #JournalTipsTuesday, we have ideas to help you get started with a focus on automation. Let's get to it! ⏳ Why prioritize automation this year? Time is precious. Each turn around the sun reminds us of that! Think about what tasks you and your team are doing manually now and how you could automate them to streamline journal operations (and preserve your sanity!) as you work to keep up with new publishing standards. Below are key areas to consider.👇 📤 Recurring peer review communication One low-hanging fruit workflow optimization opportunity is automating recurring communication (i.e., the nearly identical emails you send referees, authors, and editors). Even if you're already doing this, you likely have opportunities to do it more. For example, the Scholastica Peer Review System enables editors to create templates for review reminders, manuscript decision letters, and even one-off emails (e.g., answers to author/reviewer FAQs) — all with customization opportunities to keep the personal touch. 💪 Submission/article formatting The journal production process is also brimming with automation opportunities — from layout to typesetting to reference checking. One of the best moves you can make (if you haven't yet) is transitioning to a single-source journal production process where *one code-based file* is used to generate all final article formats. Single-source production processes eliminate manual submission formatting steps for authors and editors, making author guidelines and technical checks less tedious. And since edits to source files universally apply to ALL article outputs, journal teams don't have to worry about going through multiple rounds of file conversions/versioning control. All of this can reduce the potential for errors and help lower the cost of publishing. For example, Scholastica's production service uses software to simultaneously create PDF, HTML, and full-text JATS XML articles from original DOCX or LaTeX manuscript files. So authors and editors don't have to worry about formatting steps! 🗂 Content registration, archiving, and indexing Finally, another area of publishing ripe for automation is content registration, archiving, and indexing. Journal teams can leverage FTP servers and API integrations to automate XML metadata and article deposits to scholarly databases. In addition to saving time, automating content deposits is a best practice because machine-readable files are generally more robust, uniform, and less prone to inaccuracies than manual metadata entries. 🎁 Wrap up We hope you found these tips helpful. Here's to more efficient and enjoyable journal publishing in 2025! #scholarlypublishing #peerreview

Happy holidays from team Scholastica! ☃️ We wish you a wonderful rest of the year and hope you're getting ready to enjoy some well-deserved R&R! By that, we mean rest and relaxation, not revise and resubmit requests — a little scholarly publishing humor for you! 😁