Mobile-friendly Editors’ Choice website allows you to share ‘Top 5’ articles
No one is more familiar with a journal's content than the editor – you have often curated each manuscript from arrival to acceptance. On the new Editors' Choice website, you can now highlight the five...
View ArticleHow you can use social media professionally
Spend even a few moments reviewing research online these days and you’ll struggle to escape the omnipresence of social media. Whether it’s the chirpy blue Twitter bird inviting you to share the article...
View ArticleFinding reviewers in EES just got easier…
Egbert van Wezenbeek | Director Publication Process Development, Elsevier The Find Reviewers application in the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) was built to help you locate appropriate reviewers. Since...
View ArticleRegistrations open for journal editor webinar series
Jagdesh Kaur Georgiou | Researcher Relations Manager, Elsevier This autumn sees the next two live webinars in our 2014 series for journal editors and registrations are now open. By participating in...
View ArticleHow to generate journal insights using visualization techniques
Editors and publishers are always curious to learn how their journal is performing compared to others in the field. They are also keen to discover whether the content they are publishing is attracting...
View ArticleWhy I wouldn’t want to be without Scopus; an editor’s story
In his role as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Professor William S Neilson relies heavily on the information contained in Elsevier’s Scopus – the largest...
View ArticleAssessing subject and publication trends using SciVal
In this special issue, we’ve touched on how Scopus can support your editorial role. Now we turn the spotlight on another powerful source of research insights - Elsevier’s new generation SciVal. Using...
View ArticleMaking research easier and smarter with semantic publishing technologies
A common researcher complaint is that with so much published literature available, it can be difficult to locate relevant articles. Then there are concerns about evaluating papers, particularly due to...
View ArticleHow online submission is evolving to better support editors
Since its launch in 2002, the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) has been Elsevier’s preferred online submission and peer-review system and now caters for around 2,120 journals. As you may know, we are...
View ArticleEditor in the Spotlight: Mirjam Cvetič of Physics Letters B
Mirjam Cvetič is Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA; an institution with which she has...
View ArticleCombating rising submissions with a pragmatic approach
Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University in the UK. Since early 2009, alongside Professor Neal Norrick of Universität des Saarlandes in Germany, he has...
View ArticleHow one editor is attracting new reviewers
Ask any journal editor to name their top three pain points and you will frequently hear "finding reviewers". With researchers so busy and the number of journal submissions on the rise, it is a common...
View ArticleTime-saving tips and tricks from the EES team
The Elsevier Editorial System (EES) provides a number of powerful tools you can use to manage the peer-review process. Recently, we have introduced a range of enhancements, including: The Find...
View ArticleEditor in the Spotlight – Lynn E DeLisi of Schizophrenia Research
Dr. Lynn E DeLisi, MD, is a psychiatrist in the VA Boston Healthcare system and cares for very acutely ill psychotic patients. She is also a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where she...
View ArticleEditor in the Spotlight video compilation
In our regular Editor in the Spotlight Q&A, seasoned editors share their views on a broad array of publishing topics. We have gathered together just some of their responses in this two-minute video...
View ArticleRegistrations now open for our latest free editor webinar series
Jagdesh Kaur-Georgiou | Researcher Relations Manager, Elsevier Are you wondering... how to attract high-impact authors & high-impact papers? what the changes are related to open access & what...
View ArticleSpeed reviews or speed dating?
Professor Philip Steinberg | Associate Editor for the journal Political Geography Philip Steinberg is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK, a post he has held since...
View ArticleEditor‘s new book aims to support next generation of editors and authors
Years of watching academics struggle with the ‘publish or perish’ phenomenon has inspired a leading Elsevier Editor-in-Chief to publish a book to help academics navigate the world of publishing. “After...
View ArticleCOPE Ethics Case: An authorship dispute
In this regular feature, we highlight an ethics dilemma from the searchable cases database operated by COPE, the Committee on Publication Ethics. In 2008, all Elsevier journals were enrolled in COPE so...
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