6 February 2025
DataSalon announced today the addition of a key new report which enables users of PaperStack to analyse citation counts for rejected articles later published elsewhere.
PaperStack integrates directly with ScholarOne and Editorial Manager to provide publishers with a comprehensive visual reporting suite for the entire scholarly submissions process.
The PaperStack rejected article tracking module was introduced to allow editorial staff to discover the ultimate outcome for submissions they reject. Rejected articles from a publisher’s entire journal portfolio are automatically tracked in Crossref to identify if they are later published elsewhere and if so when, in which journal, and with which publisher.
Citation counts have now been added to the publication details already being retrieved from Crossref, and this new report uses them as an indication of the value of the articles lost to other publishers, adding a further layer of insight to the rejected article tracking module.
The report has various settings to address potential issues with using citations as an indicator of quality: average as well as total citations (to allow for fair comparisons within a subject/set of journals), year filters (as citations take a while to build up), and a ‘minimum articles’ baseline (to prevent a few outliers with large numbers of citations from skewing the report).
These settings, along with the standard PaperStack filters and interactive click-throughs from the report to journal lists, article lists and article timelines, provide valuable insights for editorial teams monitoring their competition and assessing the quality of their peer review processes.