Authors bring the work. Everything else in your process is a response to it.
Your call, your scope and your guidelines
The work itself. The argument, the evidence, the writing.
A complete submission your office can act on the day it arrives
Four moments where the system does the carrying
Each one is work that used to belong to a person, and no longer has to.
Before they start
The form carries your guidelines, your required files and your help text, so an author knows the whole ask before writing a word.
Submissions arrive complete, and far fewer are abandoned halfway.
While they write
Progress saves as they go. They can stop, chase a co-author, and come back to exactly where they were.
Work arrives finished rather than rushed to beat a session.
At the moment they submit
Validation checks the submission against your rules, and the author can preview the exact PDF a reviewer will see.
Your office stops opening its week with a file that was never going to be reviewable.
After it goes
Status updates on the record as the manuscript moves, with the next date named.
Your inbox stops being a status line.
The screen this all happens on
Ready to run, and yours to adjust
PeerPath ships with every element already in place and working. Setting it up is a set of adjustments rather than a build, and the same adjustments stay open to you long after you have gone live.
The submission form
Fields, order and help text, different for every article or grant type
Required files
Which designations you ask for, and which are hidden from reviewers automatically
Your guidelines
Your words, on the step where they are needed
Validation
What blocks a submission outright, and what only warns
Every email
Confirmation, revision request, decision. Your wording, with saved versions
Deadlines
Revision windows set per submission type
Every message your authors receive is written by you. In a process that runs on goodwill, that is not a small thing.
What an author controls, and what you control
You pick one confidentiality level for the journal. The author decides which files travel with the manuscript, and your office can correct that before review starts.
| Confidentiality level | Double blind | Author blind | Open |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reviewers see your name and affiliation | No | Yes | Yes |
| You see the reviewer's name | No | No | If the reviewer discloses it |
The editorial office can correct this before review starts, so a title page that slipped through does not undo a blinded review.
Four more experiences you are responsible for
Tell us what you review.
We will show you the workflow.
Send us your submission requirements, including the awkward ones. We will build the form and show you what your authors would see.