Troubleshooting Publication Errors

If a journal is not correctly configured, this will lead to errors when attempting to publish the configuration from the Publish Changes tab.

See the related information for resolution steps to each of the following errors that can be displayed when attempting to publish a journal configuration:
  • External id shouldn't be empty.
  • File designation is required: Main Document - PDF
  • Minimum or Maximum keywords of research topics question should be less then whole list of topics
  • Preferred Editor question should contain at least one editor role
  • Questionnaire for article type '{article type}' and kind 'PreSubmission' should have at least one question, where {article type} can be, for example, Research Article
  • Questionnaire for article type '{article type}' and kind 'Submission' should have at least one question, where {article type} can be, for example, Original Paper
  • There are not enough editors to implement the preferred editor question
  • The site name already used by other published journal