Manuscript Submission and Peer Review Management

PeerTrackTM is an intuitive cloud-based system with expert support designed to enhance your peer review workflow.

A simple and easy to use manuscript submission and peer review management site is critical for an efficient editorial office. KGL PeerTrack provides journals, books, reference works and other scholarly publications an intuitive, cloud-based system for managing manuscript submissions and peer review.

Our knowledgeable staff will configure the software to meet your journal’s unique editorial needs. We’ll be with you every step of the way for ongoing support to ensure that you have the service you need to efficiently manage the peer review process for your publication.

PeerTrack is highly configurable and can handle all the tracking functions you need so you can establish workflows and automate communication the way that works best for you.

Flexible Configuration

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PeerTrack offers hundreds of configuration options that enable us to tailor the system to meet individual publication workflow needs without costly engineering change requests. Configuration options include:

  • User registration options

  • Author submission forms and questions

  • Unlimited article types and upload items

  • Unlimited email templates with merge fields and encrypted links

  • Automatic reminders

  • Unlimited custom reports

  • Unlimited user roles with distinct permissions

  • Transfer of files and XML to production systems

  • Unlimited reviewer scoresheet questions

  • Submission and publication fees

Integrations and Data Standards

PeerTrack includes a number of features that can enhance the editorial process and reduce production time. The following functions can be integrated into the peer review process so that tasks are performed automatically at configurable checkpoints in the workflow:

  • Reference linking and reformatting to journal style

  • Integrated author, title, classification and keyword searches on the bibliographic databases of your choice (such as Medline and Google Scholar)

  • Plagiarism detection through Similarity Check

  • Ingest files and JATS XML from third party submission partners

With so many services available to both authors and publishers, you need a peer review system that accommodates recognized data standards to ensure accurate metadata and clean data transfer. 

  • Export and ingest XML manuscript metadata using the JATS standard

  • Collect ORCID IDs for Authors and Co-Authors

  • Normalize institution names with Ringgold IDs

  • Normalize funder names with FundRef taxonomy

  • Normalize country data with ISO 3166

  • Ensure reliable transfer of non-roman and diacritic characters with ISO 10646-1 (Unicode Standard)

  • Assign and manage DOIs

  • Link bibliographic references to external databases (such as CrossRef and PubMed)

Analytics and Reporting

PeerTrack features both standard and customized reports so you can easily measure results and manage inefficiencies in the peer review process. Reports can be automated and delivered by email at any time.