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The pilot version of the new reference linking function in EES has been on trial by selected journals for the past few months. So what’s the verdict?
We decided to ask Dr. Tony Vernon, Co-Editor-In-Chief of Personality and Individual Differences, who was involved in the trial, if the new reference linking in EES works as well in practice as it does in theory. His journal is a very well established journal that produces 16 issues per year and receives about 850 submissions per year.
“The new reference linking in EES saves time and makes the peer review more efficient. It has made it a great deal easier and quicker to check citations and has had a really positive impact on our workload and workflow,” he says. “The improvement is due to the ease with which editors, associate editors and reviewers can cross-check references that contributors include in their manuscripts.”
When asked if there are any “kinks” that need ironing out, or further improvements that could be made to the reference linking function, Vernon replies, “I haven’t encountered any. I know there are plans to expand the integration of EES and Scopus within the next few months to include ScienceDirect and thereby allow editors and reviewers to click through to the full-text of cited articles. This is a very welcome additional feature that will make cross-referencing and finding related papers straightforward and relatively effortless.”
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