Scientific journals, which fall under the category of periodicals, are one of the main driving forces behind research.
In Brazil, the CAPES journal portal is the biggest reference for finding publications, both Brazilian and foreign.
However, despite having a major portal here in Brazil, many journals still rely on outdated submission and evaluation processes.
They use archaic, manual processes that end up delaying publications and occasionally leading to errors.
As an alternative, journals should look for startups offering advanced, low-cost technology solutions, as is already happening abroad.
Trends Abroad
The leading foreign journals have advanced systems for paper submission and evaluation, which brings greater speed and quality to publications.
These foreign systems meet certain requirements that make them more attractive both to the journal’s committee and to the authors of the papers. These requirements are detailed in the next section.
Requirements for a Scientific Journal Submission System
- Cloud technology — The latest cloud technologies allow submissions to happen without the site or portal going down, and support a large volume of submissions. Paying attention to technology matters so authors aren’t harmed. The latest technologies also enable more advanced, secure backups to prevent data loss.
- Usability — Great technology is useless if it isn’t easy to use. The publication committee should have easy access to submissions, and authors shouldn’t have doubts about the submission process either. This avoids unnecessary confusion and speeds up the submission process.
- Facilitating tools — Making the evaluation process, results announcement, and communication with authors easier are some of the key points for speeding things up. It’s important for the technology to always help both sides of the publication process.
- Cost — The most important item, especially in times of crisis, is having an accessible cost to implement the system in your publication. A great tool is useless if it’s financially unfeasible for your publication.
Advantages of a Scientific Journal Submission System
- Elimination of outdated processes — Using email, spreadsheets, and various other tools that don’t talk to each other ends up causing errors, rework, and delayed tasks. Using an integrated platform that covers every process is an excellent way to put an end to these problems.
- Agility — An integrated platform speeds up processes and puts an end to sleepless nights and delayed publications.
- Cost reduction — A single integrated tool using a cloud solution can drastically reduce your technology costs!
- More submissions — Any obstacle or complication ends up discouraging authors from submitting. Complex forms and sites that go down are reasons that shouldn’t exist anymore.
Now that you know the advantages of having a submission system, you can evaluate which one is best for your research group or even your events.
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