20 May 2024
The Geological Society announced today that they have adopted DataSalon’s PaperStack service to provide their editorial team with a comprehensive, and highly flexible, reporting suite – covering selected aspects of the peer review process across their portfolio of journals and book series.
PaperStack provides API integration with the Aries Editorial Manager system used by the Geological Society – the publisher simply arranged API access, and DataSalon took care of everything involved in harvesting and linking up the data, as well as enhancing it with industry data from ROR, Funder Registry, ORCID, and Crossref.
This ‘out-of-the-box’ solution fulfils key reporting requirements – easy access to a contextualised view of key editorial data enables editorial staff to identify workflow, strategy, and process priorities. This allows them to accurately focus their monthly and annual reporting on key areas of the publishing process such as peer review times, reviewer invitations and performance, and rejection rates, as well as accurately understanding a paper’s OA status.
A bespoke reporting feature has been the loading of Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data into PaperStack, to enhance tracking of papers submitted and accepted against annual KPI figures. The Geological Society provides a journal-level breakdown file of yearly KPIs and DataSalon does the rest.
David Boyt, Head of Editorial Development, commented: “PaperStack allows us to report on key areas of our editorial process from peer review times to rejection rates. The addition of KPI reporting is important in supporting strategic decision-making, and PaperStack provides us with easy to use contexualised reporting.”
Nick Andrews, Managing Director of DataSalon, commented: “We’re delighted to have provided the Geological Society with the tools to report across all aspects of their journals and books programme. They had a very clear idea of what reporting was needed and we’re very happy to achieve that through both standard and tailored reporting.”