Submissions

Upgrade the form, keep your PRS

Authors are tired of clunky, repetitive submission forms. Editors waste time correcting what they let through. But improving the experience has always meant a costly migration.

ChronosHub gives you a form that’s quick to complete and validates metadata in real time. The submission and manuscript then transfers directly into the peer review system you know and trust.

Save authors time

Fields populate automatically with information extracted from the manuscript. Authors spend less time on admin and more on their research.

Make clean metadata the norm

Metadata is verified against trusted identifiers and issues are flagged. Editors get submissions they can work with, not corrections to chase.

Take control of your setup

Configure the submission experience to match the needs of each journal, without depending on support tickets or release cycles.

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ChronosHub has helped us get submissions down to six minutes in many cases. And we’re getting better metadata feeds into our peer review than ever before.

David Haber
Publishing Operations Director, American Society for Microbiology

Streamline author interactions Extract metadata with AI

AI-assisted submission

Once a manuscript is uploaded, ChronosHub extracts details such as the title, abstract, affiliations, and author roles from the file itself, then fills in the relevant fields.

Author details are matched against identifiers including ROR and Ringgold. Anything it can’t verify is flagged for review, so the metadata is cleaner from the start.

One experience, every submission type

Original submissions, revisions, resubmissions, transfers, and invited articles all follow the same route. ChronosHub reuses information you already have rather than asking authors to provide it again.

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Built-in funder compliance

ChronosHub extracts funder information from the manuscript and checks it against funder and policy databases.

Where something doesn’t add up, authors see what needs attention before they submit. You find out whether funding requirements are met early, rather than once the manuscript has moved on.

Direct transfer into peer review

ChronosHub integrates with the peer review system(s) you already use. Once an author presses submit, files and metadata are formatted and transferred automatically.

No manual uploads. No duplicate data entry. Just a clean handoff into the next stage of the workflow.

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All features in one place

Manuscript Upload with Metadata Extraction

Upload a manuscript and supporting files, and ChronosHub automatically extracts title, abstract, affiliations, and author information. 

Identity Sync

Author details are verified against identifiers including ROR and Ringgold, with potential issues flagged before submission. 

Streamlined Submission Form

A modern submission experience that reduces manual data entry and can be configured to meet the needs of individual journals. 

Peer Review System Ingest

Files and metadata are automatically formatted and transferred into your peer review system once a manuscript is submitted. 

Reviewer Suggestion

Surface reviewer candidates based on expertise, conflicts of interest, and availability as manuscripts enter the workflow. 

Submission Workflow Toggle

Turn journal submission workflows on or off yourself, without raising a support ticket. 

Submission System Configuration

Your journal setup is read live rather than copied, so the form and the system can’t drift apart and a new journal goes live in days. 

Submission Form Self-Service Configuration

Give publisher teams direct control over submission-form questions and requirements. 

Sanctioned-Country Screening

Automatically block submissions that reference sanctioned countries, helping support compliance requirements. 

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ChronosHub automates your manuscript submission workflow with AI. Data extraction, validation, and compliance checks happen upfront. Authors get a faster experience and you get cleaner metadata.

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Publishing Hub

Journal selection becomes simple 

The Publishing Hub acts as a bridge between all your systems. So you can welcome authors into a single, user-friendly interface with all the workflows and links they need.  

Journal Guide

Help authors find the right journal

With a branded, searchable Journal Guide, you make all your publications’ charges, agreements, and compliance details clear from the jump.

License Management

Fast forward the signing of licenses 

License signing used to involve lots of emails, manual uploads, and lost time. With ChronosHub, you can automate the process so it takes minutes.  

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