In general, if your manuscript is deemed unsuitable for publication in your chosen journal ( for reasons other than quality) , the editor may suggest you transfer your submission to a more suitable journal.
via Elsevier’s Article Transfer Service ( Transfer Desk) . If you agree to this, your manuscript will be transferred with no need to reformat.
By transferring your submission via ATS, you can:
Relax – there’s no need to reformat or resubmit, and we’ll transfer your manuscript for you in minutes
Enjoy shorter editorial times – if applicable, editors will use the work done by previous reviewers
Maximize your publication options
Revise your paper – you’ll have the chance to take reviews into account before finalizing submission to the new journal
Keep the first submission date of your manuscript
Stay in control – you’re in charge, with minimal effort; agreeing to the transfer takes just one click
How does it work?
Transferring your submission with ATS is simple.
You will receive the transfer offer by email – start the transfer process by clicking on the link.
Select the appropriate receiving journal, and your paper will be transferred automatically.
At this point you have the chance to revise your submission – just submit a ‘response to reviewers’ document detailing the changes you’ve made.
Now all you need to do is complete your submission (additional files may be required depending on the journal), approve the PDF and submit.
The Transfer Desk is a manuscript transfer service, which provides you with a convenient way of resubmitting your manuscript to a more suitable journal.
The Transfer Desk is our manuscript transfer service, which provides you with a convenient way of resubmitting your manuscript to a more suitable journal. Finding the right journal can be difficult and sometimes sound manuscripts are rejected because they don't precisely match a journal’s aims and scope. In these cases, our Editors-in-Chief now have the option of suggesting a transfer to help you find the most suitable journal, recognizing the scientific merit of your manuscript and ensuring it can be submitted elsewhere without delay.
The transfer desk of a journal offers authors expert direction and suggestions on appropriate journals to submit their papers after they realise that the paper does not fit into the scope and objectives of their journal.
The Transfer Desk is our manuscript transfer service, which provides you with a convenient way of resubmitting your manuscript to a more suitable journal.
The Transfer Desk is our manuscript transfer service that ensures all publishable manuscripts will find a home. The Transfer Desk assists authors in finding the right journal, combining advanced journal matching technology with author’s preference. The Transfer Desk pre-checks all manuscripts, thus ensuring only publishable and complete manuscripts will be transferred. The Transfer Desk works closely with the editors of all journals to make sure every manuscript receives the attention it deserves.
This is how it works:
Editors-in-Chief can offer a transfer to the Transfer Desk (before or after peer review) using the decision ‘Decline and Transfer to Transfer Desk’. You can add recommendations for specific journals, but this is not required.
The author receives the decision email and can decide to follow-up on the transfer offer by clicking the right link in the email.
When the author accepts the transfer offer, the manuscript files and any available review reports (provided peer reviewer(s) grant permission for this) will be sent to the Transfer Desk automatically.
The Transfer Desk performs quality checks (iThenticate and language quality).
If the manuscript passed the checks, the Transfer Desk will analyse the manuscript and propose one or more suitable journals to the author. The author can choose his preferred journal(s).
The Transfer Desk will assist the author with the submission to the journal-of-choice.
The author finalises the submission and the regular editorial process continues.
Please note that assistance with a submission to another journal does NOT guarantee acceptance. The Transfer Desk only helps authors to submit their work to another journal in an easy and convenient way.