Unified Citation Journals

The UCJournals publisher services are designed specifically to run end-to-end open access publishing workflows.

Flexible Submissions

• Simple, intuitive submission process
• Clear indication of progress
• Extendable to include additional metadata fields
• Options include collecting funder information through integration with funder registry; addition of ORCiD at submission; integrating with institutional registries (eg GRID, ROR…)
• Self-service tools allow configuration of administrative settings, such as setting up teams and sections
• Manuscript/Paper/Article ingestible following exchange standards

Editorial Screening

• Editorial screening checks and escalation: iThenticate and plagiarism checks, suspicious keywords, suppression lists, author verification (publication record), citation analysis

Peer Review Management

• Three main editorial models: Chief Editor/Managing Editor with final decision; Chief Editor/Managing Editor without final decision; Section Editors
• Manuscripts assigned manually via Editor or automatically via taxonomy
• Currently supports single-blind peer review
• Reviewers can be invited on your behalf, suggested by Editor, or using integration with Publons reviewer finder tool.
• Manuscripts exportable following exchange standards

Post Peer Review Screening

• Post-accept screening check and escalation
• Mandating ORCiD for submitting author and verifying its validity
• Manuscript file checks, reviewer checks, post-acceptance material and quality checks

Manuscript/Paper/Article Billing and Collection

• Invoice created post article acceptance
• Authors can split payments and assign an invoice to their institution or pay it themselves via bank transfer, paypal or credit card
• Management of institutional and funder discounts
• Auto and manual management of waivers

Production Management

• Manuscript/Paper/Article tracked at each stage of the production process, enabling reporting on workloads and turnaround times
• Manuscript/Paper/Article marked up for style and graphics are checked for house style and re-drawn
• Manuscript/Paper/Article are typeset and copy edited
• Authors have access to an online proofing system for corrections (or handled via pdf or email)
• Final article versions created in JATS 1.1 XML, epub 3.0, Archival PDF and SVG format

Publication

• Abstracting and indexing services
• Journal websites can be customized from a template and served on a chosen domain
• https://www.ucjournals.com/ can be used as a hosting domain whilst reflecting your journal identity
• Final files can be delivered to your current journal platform