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Location: Pune(Kharadi)

Job Title: Editorial Advisor

 

About the team:

Transfer Desk is a manuscript transfer service, which provides author with a convenient way of resubmitting their manuscript to a more suitable journal. Finding the right journal can be difficult and sometimes sound manuscripts are rejected because they don't precisely match a journal’s aims and scope. Transfer desk team helps authors to leave with a positive experience & encourages them to come back to us in future while giving editors the first choice of new research. They help authors find the most suitable journal, recognizing the scientific merit of their manuscript and ensuring it can be submitted elsewhere within SpringerNature without delay.

 

Purpose of the Role

A manuscript transfer service, which provides author with a convenient way of resubmitting their manuscript to a more suitable journal when Authors find it difficult by recognizing the scientific merit of their manuscript and ensuring it can be submitted elsewhere within SpringerNature without delay. Editorial Advisor helps authors to leave with a positive experience & encourages them to come back to us in future while giving editors the first choice of new research. Purpose of the role is also to identify focus area of the manuscript and perform online searches to find suitable peer reviewers to evaluate the manuscript. It is critical to find reviewers with high relevancy, so the manuscript gets evaluated quickly and moves ahead in the publishing cycle.

 

Responsibilities

Perform quality check (QC) on submitted/amended/revised Manuscripts

Invite and securing Editorial Board Member (EBM) for the manuscript

Process manuscripts at the peer review stage by finding relevant reviewers based on standard selection criteria.

Invite reviewers on respective Peer review system

Communicate with Authors/Editors

Perform light assessment (screening) of the manuscripts (Transfer Desk)

Identify suitable journals for transferred manuscripts by referring to the standard operating procedures

Transfer manuscript to journal preferred by authors & support them throughout the transfers process

Co-coordinating editors (internal/external) to make an editorial decision on the submission

Support Editors throughout the process & build effective working relationship.

Support and organize the review process for manuscripts- Assist editors in finding potential reviewers

Participate in trials & ad hoc process level initiatives

Mentor and support new joiners

 

Key Relationships

Authors, EBMs and Peer Reviewers

Heads of -Submissions and Author Services (SAS) team

Journal Editors/Editorial Quality Team

Journal Editorial Office

External Partners (Vendors)

Journal’s Assistant Editors

 

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

Experience

1 – 3 years

 

Skills

Good Communication Skill (written and verbal English)

Email etiquettes

Subject matter expertise– Life science/Physics/Chemistry/ Mathematics/ Computer Science/Economics/Social science

Publishing background knowledge

Strong analytical and logical reasoning ability

Customer service and business communication experience

Manuscript handling experience would be an added advantage

 

Qualifications

Master’s degree or equivalent in - Life science/Physics/Chemistry/ Mathematics/ Computer Science/Economics/Social science

Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in engineering

 

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