In-flight Submissions

Manuscripts without a final decision that were initially submitted to a third-party peer review system such as ScholarOne do not appear in Author Portal.

Their submission details are not searchable in the Author Portal Admin Tool nor are they present in the author’s Author Portal account under My Submissions. These articles are referred to as in-flight submissions.

You will need to make a workflow decision about how you want to handle in-flight decisions during the transition period. You have the following options:

• Completely process all manuscripts that were begun in the third-party system. Only new submissions will enter the publication workflow in Author Portal Submission.
• Have the editorial office staff manually create submissions for all in-flight manuscripts from the third-party system in Author Portal.
• Ask the authors to submit their revisions using Author Portal rather than using the third-party system where they originally submitted their manuscripts.