Editorial Advisor

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About The Role

Transfer Desk is 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 Springer Nature 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.

Roles 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)
• Journals Assistant Editors
  

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

Experience

• 1 – 3 years
  

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Mathematics / Statistics / Justice/ Law/ Politics/Public Administration Business/ Management/ Marketing/ Operations Research/ English Literature/ Education
• M.Tech or B.Tech in Civil Engineering/ Chemical Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering
• M.E or B.E. in Civil Engineering/ Chemical Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering

Skills

• Good Communication Skill (written and verbal English)
• Email etiquettes
• Publishing background knowledge
• Strong analytical and logical reasoning ability
• Customer service and business communication experience
• Manuscript handling experience would be an added advantage