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Journal Editorial Manager Software

Manage submission, peer review, and editorial decisions in one workflow.

What Is Journal Editorial Manager?

Purpose-built for academic publishers, journal editorial teams, and research societies

Academic journal editorial teams juggle manuscript submissions, reviewer assignments, and revision cycles across email threads and spreadsheets that quickly become unmanageable as submission volume grows. Softsols Pakistan’s Journal Editorial Manager brings the entire editorial workflow — submission, review, decision, and revision — into a single, trackable system.

Used by journal editorial offices, academic societies, and independent publishers across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, the platform is built to reduce editorial turnaround time while giving editors-in-chief full visibility into every manuscript’s status.

Rather than bolting on capability after capability, Journal Editorial Manager was designed around the day-to-day workflow of the people who actually use it. Every module below ships as part of the core platform — there’s no separate add-on marketplace to navigate or surprise licensing tier to unlock basic functionality. The result is a system that feels coherent rather than assembled, whether your team is in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.

See It In Action

A clean, modern interface your team will actually enjoy using

Journal Editorial Manager is designed around clarity and speed — the interface below is representative of the kind of streamlined, dashboard-driven experience your team gets, built to reduce clicks and surface the information that matters most at each step.

Illustrative interface preview

Software adoption succeeds or fails based on whether it actually makes people’s jobs easier, not just whether the feature list looks impressive on paper. These are the outcomes organizations consistently report after replacing manual or fragmented processes with Journal Editorial Manager:

Who It’s For

Real-world use cases

Journal Editorial Manager is deployed by organizations of every size across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. Here’s where it fits best:

Choosing a vendor for software that your team will depend on daily is as much about the relationship as it is about the feature set. Softsols Pakistan builds Journal Editorial Manager as a ready-to-deploy platform, not a rigid off-the-shelf template. We work with clients across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore to configure the system around existing workflows, migrate historical data, and integrate with the tools your team already relies on. Because our team also handles custom software development, any gap between “ready-to-deploy” and “exactly what you need” can be closed quickly, without switching vendors or starting a new procurement process. Post-launch, our support team remains available for configuration changes, user training, and the inevitable questions that come up once real users start relying on a new system day to day. Pricing is structured around your deployment size and configuration needs rather than a one-size-fits-all license, so smaller teams aren’t paying for enterprise-scale infrastructure they don’t need, and larger organizations get the scalability and support depth their operations require.

Journal Editorial Manager is built with integration in mind rather than as a closed system, because very few organizations are starting with a blank slate. Most teams already have accounting software, communication tools, or industry-specific systems they’ve invested time and budget into, and ripping those out simply to adopt a new platform is rarely realistic. Commonly connected tools and services include:

• CrossRef DOI registration & CrossCheck similarity checks
• ORCID author identity verification
• JATS XML export for PubMed Central & indexing bodies
• Plagiarism/similarity detection services
• Payment gateways for article processing charges (APCs)
• Repository and archival (LOCKSS/CLOCKSS) integration

Scholarly publishing organizations in every region we serve must protect the confidentiality of unpublished manuscripts, reviewer identities, and author personal data. The platform’s role-based access, encrypted storage, and detailed activity logs are built to help US-based publishers align with relevant data-protection expectations, UK and European-facing journals meet UK GDPR requirements around personal data handling, and Australian publishers operate within the Privacy Act 1988. Canadian societies working under PIPEDA, New Zealand publishers subject to the Privacy Act 2020, and Singapore-based publishing operations governed by the PDPA all benefit from configurable data residency and consent tracking. Beyond privacy law, the platform is also structured to support the metadata, persistent-identifier, and archival standards (JATS XML, DOI, ORCID, CrossRef/CrossCheck) that international indexing bodies expect from a compliant, discoverable publishing workflow.

Because Journal Editorial Manager is a proven, ready-to-deploy platform rather than a from-scratch build, most organizations across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore move from initial discovery call to a working, staff-trained deployment considerably faster than a fully custom development project — while still retaining the option to request bespoke features where your workflow genuinely needs something the standard configuration doesn’t cover.

Most publishing organizations don’t run Journal Editorial Manager in isolation — it’s typically paired with one or more complementary Softsols platforms to cover the full operational picture. A few products teams often deploy alongside it: