Manuscript tracking

Manuscript status, without the chase

Authors ask the same question every day: where is my manuscript? Answering it usually costs an email, a support request, or another login.

ChronosHub pulls statuses out of your PRS and into a kanban-style dashboard. Authors and reviewers can follow multiple manuscripts, and your team stops fielding routine questions.

Reduce status inquiries

Answering status questions isn’t editorial work, but it fills editorial inboxes. Stem the tide and get your team back on the work that matters.

Keep manuscripts in your portfolio

Is a manuscript better suited to another journal? Authors can accept a transfer and continue without starting the process again.

Bring fragmented journeys together

Post-submission is an anxious time for authors. Keep them in your environment and keep them updated. Not waiting on your vendors.

Automatic status updates

Status updates are retrieved directly from your peer review system and shown in a simple view: under consideration, decision made, preparing publication, and so on.

In the backend, your team can retrieve updates on demand when they need an immediate answer. No waiting on scheduled jobs.

Peer review status decoder

If you run different PRS systems across your portfolio, you’ll know the frustrations of trying to find common ground between them. Different vocabularies, different interfaces.

ChronosHub translates technical, editor-facing PRS statuses into fewer, author-facing ones. That makes for a familiar journey regardless of which journal or system sits behind it.

Seamless journal transfer

When a manuscript is better suited to another journal in your portfolio, authors can accept a transfer instead of starting over.

The manuscript carries forward with its existing information. Authors have less to redo, and you keep suitable research inside your portfolio.

Reviewer dashboard too

Reliable reviewers are worth their weight in gold. So you want to hand them a great experience.

Manuscript Tracking brings their disparate assignments together in one dashboard. They see where things stand at a glance and decide where to focus their time next.

All features in one place

Manuscript Status Retrieval

Retrieve status updates and editor messages directly from the peer review system that holds the manuscript, either automatically or on demand.

Author Dashboard

A single place for authors to track manuscript progress, milestones, and editorial decisions.

Reviewer Dashboard

A consolidated view of assigned manuscripts and review progress.

Cross-System Status Mapping

Translate status information from multiple peer review systems into one consistent experience across the portfolio.

On-Demand Status Retrieval

Allow publisher teams to manually retrieve the latest manuscript information whenever it’s needed.

Journal Transfer

Enable authors to accept a transfer to a better-fit journal without resubmitting their manuscript from scratch.

All features in one place

Manuscript Status Retrieval

Status updates come directly from whichever peer review system holds the manuscript. Continuously by feed, or on demand when someone needs an answer sooner.

Author Dashboard

Authors can follow their manuscript from submission to final decision, without an account on your peer review system.

Reviewer Dashboard

Reviewers see every manuscript they’ve been assigned, and where each review stands, all in one place.

Author-Initiated Journal Transfer

If a manuscript gets declined but could be better suited elsewhere, the author can accept a transfer to another journal in your portfolio, carrying the manuscript forward instead of starting over.

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Manuscript Tracking one-pager

One place for every manuscript in progress. It connects with your existing publishing systems, so next steps and statuses flow into a single view. Authors know where their paper stands. You spend less time chasing updates.

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