Invited Author Reports
Reports in the Invited Author Reports section of the Reports page are also available via the Reports section on the Proposal Menu. These reports provide information about invited submissions.
Proposal Pipeline Report
The Proposal Pipeline Report allows users to track the status of all Proposals in the system. This report can be used to retrieve information about Author invitations and invited submissions related to Proposals.
For information on how to use this report, see Proposal Pipeline Report.
Authors Invited – No Response
The Authors Invited – No Response report provides information about Authors who have not responded to an invitation to submit (agreed or declined) and who have not been uninvited. The report can be run for all Handling Editors or a single Handling Editor. Results display in a table with a Send Reminder column, enabling the user to send reminder letters from the report page.
- Click the link to open the report page.
- Select definition for the report:
- Show all Invited Authors that are within X days of the invitation response due date: Enter number of days in the text box.
- Show all Invited Authors that are X days past the invitation response due date: Enter number of days in the text box.
- Show all Invited Authors whose invitation response due date is between two selected dates: Enter dates in the text boxes.
- Show all Invited Authors whose submission is due between two selected dates: Enter dates in the text boxes.
- Show all Invited Authors with a target publication date between two selected dates: Enter dates in the text boxes.
- Show Invited Authors for target publication volume X and issue X: Enter volume and issue numbers in the text boxes.
- Show all Invited Authors who have not yet submitted.
- Click Submit.
Author Invitation Status Report
The Author Invitation Status Report provides information about Authors who have accepted an invitation but have not yet submitted a manuscript related to the invitation in a specified time frame. The report can be run for all Handling Editors, or for one specific Handling Editor. A manuscript may appear multiple times in results if more than one Invited Author meets the report selection criteria. Results display in a table with a Send Reminder column, enabling the user to send reminder letters from the report page.
- Click the link to open the report page.
- Handling Editor: Use the drop-down menu to select All Editors, an Editor role, or an individual Editor.
- Use the radio button to select a time frame definition:
- Show all Invited Authors who accepted the invitation more than X days ago: Enter number of days in the text box.
- Show all Invited Authors whose submission is due between selected dates: Enter start and end dates for the time frame in the text boxes.
- Show all Invited Authors with a target publication date between selected dates: Enter start and end dates for the time frame in the text boxes.
- Show Invited Authors for target publication volume X and issue X: Enter volume and issue numbers in the text boxes.
- Optional: Narrow results by Article Type: Use the multi-selector tool to select one or more Article Types.
- Click Submit.
Automated Author Invitation Reminder Report
The Author Invitation Reminder Report allows users to set up a report that runs nightly to automatically send reminders to Authors based on the pre-configured criteria. This report can be used to send out reminders of outstanding invitations, response due dates, outstanding submissions, and submission due dates for invited submissions related to a Proposal or Commentary.
- Click the link to open the report page.
- Reminder Type: Use the radio button to select submission type for report.
- Outstanding invitations: Enter number of days in the text box.
- Reminder before invitation response due date: Enter number of days in the text box.
- Reminder past invitation response due date: Enter number of days in the text box.
- Outstanding submissions: Enter number of days in the text box.
- Reminder before submission due date: Enter number of days in the text box.
- Reminder past submission due date: Enter number of days in the text box.
- Invitation type: Select Proposal or Commentary from the drop-down list.
- Handling Editor: Select an Editor name from the drop-down list or run for all Editors.
- Reminder name: Enter a name for the report.
- Reminder letter: Select a letter template from the drop-down list.
- Optional: Narrow results by Article Types and/or Section/Category.
- Proposal Article Type: Use the multi-selector tool to select one or more Proposal Article Types (parent).
- Article Type: Use the multi-selector tool to select one or more Article Types.
- Section/Category: Use the multi-selector tool to select one or more Sections/Categories.
- Click Save as Automated Reminder.
Saved reminder reports appear in a table at the bottom of the page. Saved reports may be edited or deleted by the user who created them.