User Comments

"Aries support has been consistently helpful in my year of EM. No question is too big or too small."

Mary Sharkey, Managing Editor
Journal of Devel & Behav Pediatrics AND Journal of Thoracic Oncology

"I find EM to be intuitive; if I don’t know something, I can usually figure it out."

Deborah Bowman
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

"Editorial Manager is easy to use and it saves me a lot of time."

Leslie B. Thacker, Managing Editor
Diagnostic Molecular Pathology & The International Journal of Gynecological Pathology

"EM enables versatility in the journal office."

Claire Moroney, Manuscript Administrator
Clinical Infectious Diseases

"Editorial Manager is a smart tool that makes submission and reviewing tasks more efficient and user friendly."

Andrea Dulberger, Editorial Assistant
Cell Press

"I like EM’s ability to configure different manuscript types."

Rachel Ravitsky, Managing Editor - Electronic
Taylor and Francis

"As a self-publisher, we have been able to move to a more efficient workflow by using Preprint Manager for production tracking. There is great ability to become more flexible and to have quick turnarounds and version control."

Preprint Manager User

"What used to take hours of time and hundreds of dollars, now takes a couple of clicks of the mouse and virtually no money."

Jian Sun, EES (Editorial) Manager
Aesthetic Surgery Journal

"The staff at Aries Systems make you feel like family. They are willing to go above and beyond to help your journal run as smoothly as possible."

Erin Dubnansky, Director of Editorial Services
Gastroenterology and CGH

"Editorial Manager is for us an ingenious solution because it offers us an excellent mix of pre-configured functionality and individual adaptation. We handle our journals rather individually to the benefit of authors, referees and editors and, therefore, particularly appreciate the capability in Editorial Manager allowing us to configure all these conditions ourselves within the system exactly according to our requirements."

Angelika Sperlich
Oldenbourg

"Editorial Manager has increasingly made my life simpler and more organized. I cannot imagine ever going back to the days before EM! Thank you for your innovative and responsive system."

Mary Newcomb, Managing Editor
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

"I sincerely appreciate what a great vendor Aries is for Duke Press. You always follow through and are very responsive to our needs."

Rob Dilworth, Editorial/Administrative Manager
Duke University Press

"I just wanted to let you know Jason has been a tremendous help with our conversion to EM. He is always very available to answer all questions and is extremely knowledgeable about the system. It is very refreshing to have someone like that to call for help and get the friendly, courteous, competent help that is needed. I have never been disappointed and am grateful he is there when I need him."

Jeanine Vezie, Managing Editor
The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

"Editorial Manager is a key selling point for my company."

Marie Bardsley, Director
E-Med Ltd.

"I am particularly impressed by the availability and stability of EM and the smooth update procedures. Thank you for providing such an excellent choice to our journals!"

Katharina Rademacher, JEO Manager
Springer Heidelberg

"Editorial Manager is a versatile and powerful system that saves us time throughout the peer review process. We are extremely happy with the flexibility, responsiveness of Aries to user suggestions, and the online help feature in EM."

Sara Tiner, Editorial Coordinator
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

"Aries is constantly updating and improving the efficiency and usability of Editorial Manager. We are more than happy with this system."

Leslie Thacker, Managing Editor
Diagnostic Molecular Pathology

"Aries is committed to providing an excellent and ever-expanding product."

Nancy J. Kriigel, Managing Editor
American Journal of Surgical Pathology

"I have found using EM to be quite intuitive. I was able to start using it right away, yet it has so many layers, I still learn new things every day."

Deborah Bowman, Managing Editor
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

"Working with the EM staff made the experience of transitioning to a new system a pleasant one."

Jackie Perry, Managing Editor
American Society of Civil Engineers

"I appreciate your responsiveness. Editorial Manager is vastly superior to the system we used to use."

Unsolicited User Comment

"We work with editors in the U.S. and Germany. During implementation, we needed strong customer support from Aries on both sides of the ocean. That has worked splendidly. The comprehensive support provided by the German Aries office in Langenfeld has been very important as we introduced the system."

Michael Himmelstoß, Publishing Manager
Carl Hanser Publishing Munich

"We are really grateful for the help that Aries was able to offer. We don't have a dedicated IT staff, so this kind of assistance is of special value for us. Thank you for the excellent follow-through."

Mady Tissenbaum, General Manager
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

"We chose Editorial Manager because it is a worldwide market leader, and we wanted a manuscript submission and editorial office system that has been proven to work well. The fact that the system has been broadly used by other publishing houses gave us confidence that some of our authors and editors would already have experience with Editorial Manager, and that training would be easy for those who did not."

Wolfgang Böttner, Section Manager Medicine & Sciences and Board Member
Walter de Gruyter Publishing

"You guys really provide us with good service and you don't know how much I appreciate it!"

Rhea Morgan, Editor-in-Chief
Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association

"I have just used EM for the first time. It was an excellent experience and really facilitated the review process."

David Middleton, Reviewer
British Journal of Social Psychology

"I really appreciate Editorial Manager. It is very efficient, effective, easy to use and has greatly increased our ability to quickly serve our authors."

Ken Hargreaves, Editor
Journal of Endodontics

"We are very excited to work with Editorial Manager. We were all very impressed and appreciate the customer service, too. Thank you for your very informative instruction."

Cindy Garcia
Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry

"Editorial Manager 4.0 represents one of the most comprehensive updates to the system since its inception. These changes include a host of refinements and new additions. As a whole, 4.0 is a welcome upgrade and the majority of enhancements will enrich the EM experience."

David M. Allen, Publications Specialist
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

"EM has definitely made my life easier! You anticipate features I'd like to see, such as reference checking and linking with eXtyles, sometimes
before I even think of them. Thank you."

Sue Shock
Medicine

"It is a pleasure to deal with an organization that reacts positively to user feedback and that incorporates the real-life experiences of customers into product improvements."

Dr. Nijsje Dorman and Dr. Sean Sanders, Assistant Editors
BioTechniques

"EM is essential. I cannot imagine functioning without it. Customer service is extraordinary; well above that of any other organization."

Donna Stroud, Editor
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

"I have completed all the reviewer invitations for the current manuscripts, and I just love this system! I had absolutely no problems, everything worked great, and I kept catching on more and more as I used the system. Wow, this all makes my life so easy! It is terrific!"

Peggy Chin, Editor
Advances in Nursing Science

"The impressive increase in the citation impact factor has drawn more authors to our journal, this along with the ease of submitting manuscripts using Editorial Manager helped to boost our submissions by more than 10% in 2004."

Cami Lind, Editorial Assistant
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

"Operating a Journal Office without Editorial Manager would be like baking bread without yeast. I just do not know how you would get anywhere without it!"

Jackie Lynch, Senior Editorial Coordinator
The Laryngoscope

"I have to say that part of the reason I like doing reviews for Annals so much is the excellent staff, and the ridiculously friendly web-based review system."

Dr. David C. Cone, Associate Professor
Yale University School of Medicine

"Largely as a result of the success of Editorial Manager, we have significantly decreased the average number of days from manuscript receipt to publication. Most authors and reviewers have become comfortable with EM and, in fact, many like it better than other systems they come across."

Deanna Gunderson, Managing Editor
American Journal of Kidney Disease

"We plan to apply the 'Proposals and Invited Papers' feature both to invited editorials and letters to the editor and their replies. This new feature represents just one of many examples of Aries' responsiveness to editorial office requests."

Pam Fried, Managing Editor
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

" We have been using it for about 15 months now and really like it. The editor of the journal recently moved to Virginia, but with EM we are able to keep the journal office in Texas without any change to the way we handle manuscripts. Our authors, referees and publisher have all praised the web-based system."

Sarah Pierce-Rubio
Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine

"At any given time our journal has between 80 and 90 live manuscripts, and I seem to be able to handle everything working 12 to 16 hours per week largely because EM does so much for me."

Caroline Verdier, Managing Editor
Cognitive Science

"I just wanted to say that EM is an excellent system and from the many positive comments we have received, that it is by far superior to other systems being used. If we continue to get submissions at our current rate, by the end of the year, we will double our submission rate from previous years."

Betty Schiefelbein, Managing Editor
Remote Sensing of Environment

"Editorial Manager offers the right mix of software functionality and configurability. We particularly like the flexibility of the reporting system which will enable us to monitor and track the journals in a detailed and systematic way."

Julie Neason, Journals Manager
British Psychological Society

"We're really enjoying the 3.0 EM upgrade. The staff who work on the journals we upgraded to 3.0 have been singing the praises of .zip file uploads for the last week!"

Ryan Kelley, Local Applications Manager
Elsevier Publishing

"Our international authors are especially excited about Editorial Manager. We've surveyed authors and reviewers and gotten a very positive response to the system overall."

Nancy Medina, Director
Annals of Emergency Medicine

"The system has helped cut late reviews to just 16-17%. Contributors get a 'yes' or 'no' much more quickly – the average time has dropped from 52 business days to 25."

Adrienne Lea, Director of Publications
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research

"As a leading scientific publisher, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins continues to offer the best solution to our authors and editorial boards. Aries has a solid track record of successful software development, and their Editorial Manager system has proven to be a superior online manuscript submission and tracking solution."

Patti Ward, Manager of Editorial Solutions
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

"We've been impressed with the pace and reliability of innovation delivered by the Editorial Manager development team."

Harry Verwayen, Business Development Manager
Kluwer Academic Publishers

"I have just tried the online review process and I congratulate you and the journal for an excellent system! In fact, this is the best I have encountered. I like the related articles feature and the fact that we can add special characters which many journals do not offer."

Unsolicited Section Editor Comment

"I have submitted the article via the web system. I found this system to be very easy to understand and use, and also very quick."

Unsolicited Author Comment

"We would like to congratulate you and your team on the excellent upgrade."

Journal Office Comment

"Sending decision letters via EM is a pleasure. I was able to send 9 letters in a half-hour. In the old system, those same letters would have taken 2 hours. EM has revolutionized the decision letter process."

Journal Office Comment

"One of our Editorial Board members sent this super nice message last week. He also called to say "hats off" to the designers of the system because he liked it so much. I think this message is a great compliment to everyone at Aries."

Journal Office Comment