August - October 2022

Structured Keywords (Research Topics)

A new Research Topics additional information has been added that supports a structured, hierarchical list of keywords (research topics).

• Configure Keywords (Research Topics) in S1M
• Configure Research Topics Keywords in Author Portal
• Research Topics (Structured Keywords)

Improved Author and Administrator Experience for Submissions That Are Resubmitted as New

When administrators resubmit a submission as new, only the latest submission is displayed in the submitter's Author Portal dashboard, but they can access the initial submission by clicking a hyperlink.

• Document has not been ingested / document has not been unsubmitted / Lock editing of unsubmitted manuscripts is unchecked

Increased Limit of Journals per Journal Administrator

The limit of journals that can be administered by the same Journal Administrator was increased from 25 to 300.

• Administrative User Levels
• Grant Administrator Access

Automatic Parsing of Unmatched Author Affiliations

When Author Portal is unable to match authors' affiliations as provided in the manuscript, it now automatically parses the relevant affiliation text in the manuscript and attempts to extract the following data for each affiliation:

• Institution name
• Department(s)
• Country
• State/Province
• City
• Postcode
• Street Address

Author Portal then sends the extracted data to ScholarOne.

Article Type Deactivation and Activation

Administrators can now deactivate an article type without deleting it in a journal configuration.

• Article Types

Double-Anonymized Peer Review and LaTeX Support

Single-Blind and Double-Blind language in Author Portal has been replaced with Single-Anonynmized and Double-Anonymized.

Additionally, double-anonymized peer review is now supported for journals that accept submissions where the main document is in LaTeX format. Previously, when configuring a journal in Author Portal, it was not possible to enable both LaTeX main document support and double-anonymized peer review.

• LaTeX Main Document Support
• Configure Peer Review Policy in S1M
• Peer Review Policy

Updated Journal Administrator Access

To avoid unintentional misconfigurations, Journal Administrator access has been modified so that users with that role can no longer edit in Author Portal additional information questions that require ScholarOne configuration.

• Administrative User Levels

Early Career Research Additional Information Question

The question title has been updated from ECR (Early Career Researcher) Outreach to Early Career Researcher Services and an additional option has been added.

• Early Career Researcher Services

Submission Owner Reassignment Failure Warning

Author Portal now displays an error message if submission ownership reassignment fails either when an admin initiates it or when a submitter attempts to accept ownership.

• Change Submission Ownership

Improved Author Usability

Unnecessary fields, such as Abstract, are no longer included in the Final Review submission step.