Journal Dashboard & Annual Report for Leadership
Overview
“The vice-rector asked for our acceptance rate and average time to decision, and it took us three days to work it out from OJS exports.” Every journal produces the data; almost none can see it. Without a dashboard, editors cannot spot the reviewer bottleneck, the region that stopped submitting or the backlog building in production, and leadership cannot judge whether the journal is worth its budget.
NeucitePress connects to your manuscript system, imports the history, builds a dashboard of the metrics that matter, sends a monthly summary by email, and once a year writes an annual report in plain language for the people who fund the journal.
Who this is for: editors-in-chief who want performance visibility, publishers managing several titles, and journals that must report to a university, society or funder, or supply metrics for an indexing application.
What’s Included
- Submission analytics — volume trends, geographic sources, subject distribution
- Review metrics — time to first decision, reviewer invitation and completion rates, decision patterns
- Publication statistics — acceptance rates, time to publication, backlog and issue regularity
- Readership and impact tracking — downloads, citations and altmetrics where sources are available
- Monthly PDF summary delivered by email, branded with your journal identity
- Annual report for leadership — a short written document covering performance, trends, risks and recommendations, written for a dean, council or board
- Custom alerts for thresholds you set, daily data refresh, unlimited users and CSV/Excel export
How It Works
| Phase | Timeline |
|---|---|
| Integration setup | Days 1–5 |
| Historical import | Days 6–10 |
| Dashboard launch | Day 11 |
| Training | Days 12–14 |
The annual report is produced at the end of each 12-month term, or at a date you choose to match your institution’s reporting cycle.
What Stays With Your Editors
The journal’s editors keep final authority over reviewer selection, editorial assessment and acceptance; the dashboard reports on those decisions, it does not make them. NeucitePress runs the integration, the reporting infrastructure and the annual report.
Important Limitations
- 12 months of access; renewal at $799 per year.
- Native integration with OJS, ScholarOne and Editorial Manager; other systems require custom integration, quoted separately.
- Covers one journal; multi-journal dashboards priced separately.
- Citation and altmetric data depend on the journal having DOIs and being present in the relevant sources; the dashboard reports what those sources return.
Common Questions
Can we white-label the reports?
Yes. Monthly summaries and the annual report carry your journal’s identity.
Does this replace OJS’s built-in statistics?
It builds on them. OJS reports usage and some editorial counts; the dashboard adds turnaround analysis, reviewer performance, trends over time and the leadership-facing narrative.
Can the annual report be used for an indexing application?
Yes. Publishing regularity, turnaround and geographic diversity figures are exactly what indexing reviewers ask for.
Every engagement can begin with the Journal Health Check.
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