Journal module
Peer review that runs on time, and articles people can find.
From submission to a published article that Google Scholar can read and a harvester can collect, with reviewers reminded for you along the way.
A submission form your authors can finish.
Authors move through up to seven steps: title, abstract, keywords, authors, declarations, suggested reviewers and upload. You choose which steps appear and in what order.
- Each author's affiliation, department, country and ORCID iD, with one corresponding author.
- Your own word limits for title and abstract, and your own keyword count.
- Declarations every author must confirm before the manuscript is accepted.
- Every submission gets a code like JRS-2026-014.
- Manuscripts are uploaded as Word documents, up to 10 MB.
Reviewers are reminded before the deadline, on it, and after it.
Every review assignment has a due date. Fellova emails the reviewer three days before it, on the day, and three days after, then stops. Editors see each reviewer as Invited, Overdue or Submitted, and can still send a reminder by hand.
Each reminder uses one email credit from your journal's monthly allowance.
Open, single-anonymous or double-anonymous. Your choice, enforced.
Each journal sets its review mode. In double-anonymous mode the author uploads an anonymised manuscript and a separate title page. The title page is never shown to reviewers, and the manuscript is released to them only after an editor confirms it is anonymised. Each new revision needs that confirmation again.
Reviewers can be asked for a structured review: a recommendation of accept, minor revision, major revision or reject, comments for the author, confidential comments for the editor, and ratings for originality, rigour and clarity. Editors decide on the same four outcomes, and revisions go back to the author to resubmit.
Every one of these is a setting, off by default. If you run a lighter process today, nothing changes until you switch it on.
Every article ready for Google Scholar, harvesters and reference managers.
These are not plugins to find and configure. They are on for every journal from the first article.
- Google Scholar tags
- Each article page carries the citation tags Google Scholar reads, in the page itself, so crawlers that do not run JavaScript still see them.
- OAI-PMH
- A standard OAI-PMH endpoint answering all six verbs with Dublin Core records, so services such as BASE and CORE can harvest your whole archive and collect only what is new.
- Harvest readiness
- A page in your admin showing your harvesting address and how many articles are ready, for when you register with an aggregator.
- Sitemap, robots and RSS
- A sitemap of every published article, a robots file that points to it, and an RSS feed of your latest articles.
- How to cite
- Every article has a How to cite box: copy the citation, or download it for BibTeX or a reference manager (RIS).
- Licence
- Every article shows its Creative Commons licence, linked to the licence itself.
Being harvestable is not the same as being indexed. Registration with each service is a step we take with you, and acceptance into an index is that index's decision.
Issues, back issues and licences.
- Publish by volume and issue, with a current issue and an archive.
- Bring your back catalogue in from one Excel sheet and a folder of PDFs, DOIs included.
- Choose a licence for each article from the Creative Commons set, CC0 or all rights reserved, or set one for the whole journal.
Fees that reach you, and figures you can read.
- A processing fee and a publication fee, set separately. Ask for payment before review, or not.
- Paystack into your account, or a bank-transfer receipt your staff approve.
- A dashboard of submissions, acceptance and rejection rates, papers in review, revenue, and your most read and most downloaded articles.
- A financial report you can filter, save as a preset and export to Excel, CSV or PDF.
- It does not register DOIs with Crossref. It records and publishes the DOI you assign.
- Authors are not signed in with ORCID. Their ORCID iD is recorded with their details.
- One subscription covers one journal title.
- Manuscripts are Word documents, up to 10 MB.