Peer Review Assistant

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🇪🇺 Europe – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

👻 Ghost score 12%

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Academia.edu

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

📚 Education

🔬 Science

☁️ SaaS

Education • Science • SaaS

Academia. edu is an online platform and academic network that enables researchers, scholars, and students to share, discover, and download research papers. It hosts tens of millions of papers and profiles, provides search and discovery tools, analytics to track citations and mentions, premium subscription features, and publishing services to distribute academic work to a global audience.

📋 Description

• Oversee the peer-review process of manuscripts, ensuring a timely and high-quality peer-review process and a smooth manuscript journey • Screen lists of recommended reviewers in the Academia.edu database and look for suitable candidates outside the platform to ensure qualified reviewers are invited • Check collected peer review reports and lead manuscripts through subsequent editorial decisions and author revisions • Collaborate with authors to ensure all relevant information is collected in a timely manner and manuscripts are revised to reviewers' and editors' satisfaction • Collaborate with Publishing Managers of assigned journals to prevent delays and issues that could impact reputation or adherence to ethical norms • Collaborate with the production service provider to ensure manuscripts are prepared according to internal guidelines and industry standards, and published without delays following final acceptance • Work independently and against short deadlines so published papers meet high standards of presentation expected by authors, editors, and indexing databases

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a natural or technical science field and sufficient proven experience processing papers for journals within natural or technical sciences fields • Master’s degree preferred but not required • 2+ years experience overseeing the day-to-day peer-review activities for a scientific journal in a similar role within an academic publishing company or within the publishing department of a scientific society/association • Experience working independently and demonstrating initiative • Experience efficiently managing publication logistics for a large volume of manuscripts • Familiarity with HTML, PDF, LaTex and XML formats • Strong skills using MS office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) • Ability to pay close attention to detail • Ability to meet time-sensitive deadlines • Ability to adapt to change and to prioritize multiple responsibilities with a sense for business impact

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Professional and personal development • Work from home budget