Use Case

Administrator-initiated transfer was built to support a specific transfer workflow and business process already in place. In this process, participating journals make a transfer offer post-rejection which is distinct from the decision letter. This process occurs outside of Author Portal Transfer and outside of the peer-review platform.

Once an author accepts a transfer offer, an Author Portal Transfer Administrator manually transfers the submission from the source journal to the destination journal. This workflow would need to be replaced by a comparable process for tenants to use Rex Transfer as designed. The existing initial administrator-initiated transfer functionality was not designed to support or replace existing ScholarOne-to-ScholarOne transfer functionality.

While administrator-driven and not fully automated, Author Portal Transfer functionality significantly reduces the manual administrative work to transfer a submission from one site to another. Previously, such transfers were completed using the ScholarOne user interface. In a worst-case scenario with large numbers of files and/or extensive author lists, this process could take up to two hours. Using Author Portal Transfer, the process takes only a few minutes per submission.