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IEEE
Sensors Journal
What is Manuscript
Central?
| Manuscript Central(TM)
is a web based system that enables the entire peer-review process to take
place online. Authors
can upload and then check the status of their paper online. Participants
are assigned different roles - author, reviewer, associate editor, and
editor-in-chief. Individuals can access only the information to which
their roles entitle them, with the editor-in-chief assigned the highest
level.
Manuscript Central( TM) will
eliminate postal delays, which can be substantial. It also smoothes the
peer-review process in other ways. An acknowledgement e-mail lets an
author know his paper has been received. The responsible associate editor
and reviewers can be assigned quickly. Reminders are automatically
generated. The
system also allows the editor-in-chief to quickly gather data on such
things as the status of papers, submission rates, acceptance rates,
reviewers' performance and turn-around times.
The main goal is to shorten the time from paper submission to decision
to publication. |
Manuscript Central can
be found at <http://sensors-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/>.
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