About the Submission Screening Report

The Submission Screening Report provides editors with useful and automated bibliography/reference screening results, helping them review references faster.

The Submission Screening Report report is included in the submission package and contains:
  • The report header, which displays the article type, title, authors, affiliations, journal name, Author Portal submission ID, and key dates.
  • The Submission Data Quality, which indicates if key metadata such as title, abstract, authors, and affiliations was extracted from the manuscript or provided manually by the author.
  • The Submission Metrics abstract word count, with manuscript word count, number of figures, and number of tables.
  • The Scope Check, which assesses how well a manuscript fits the scope of the journal by comparing it to content previously published by that journal.

  • The References report, where each reference is listed, as well as:

    • Validated, corrected, and converted to journal style.
    • Linked to DOI, PubMed and other sources, if available.
    • Flagged to indicate retraction, expression of concern, pre-print, or inability to validate the reference.

    Reformatted references are included in an MS Word document.

  • The Submission Requirement Acknowledgements, which are the submitter's answers to the submission requirement questions, as collected in Author Portal.
  • The report footer.