Industry

Scholarly Communication

Client

Morressier

Morressier Journal Manager

Modernizing the Peer Review Process

In 2024, Morressier set out to transform scientific publishing with Journal Manager, a next-generation CMS built to simplify peer review, optimize collaboration, and speed up publication.

I was responsible for taking the platform beyond its MVP, refining client-facing features, and shaping a seamless peer review system for its first official release.

Currently peer-review faces efficiency, transparency, and trust challenges

Peer review is the process of evaluating scientific articles and papers to ensure quality and integrity before publication in academic journals. It involves editors and publishers inviting expert researchers to assess submissions. While peer review remains central to academic credibility, the system today is slow and fragmented: there’s little to no automation supporting the workflows, communication happens across disconnected tools, and the process can take months or even years.
The Journal Manager workflow centralizes the peer review process, offering a clear overview of submission progress and a structured system for collecting and tracking reviewer feedback.

Reviewer Dashboard

The reviewer dashboard helps to manage the workload by organizing reviews into Active and Completed tabs. With detailed filters, contextual overlays, and sortable fields, so Reviewers can quickly locate specific reviews and track progress

Reviewer Dashboard

The reviewer dashboard helps to manage the workload by organizing reviews into Active and Completed tabs. With detailed filters, contextual overlays, and sortable fields, so Reviewers can quickly locate specific reviews and track progress

Shaping the feedback process

Editors have full visibility into each review, including reviewer scores, comments, and recommendations. They can moderate and select feedback to be shared with authors, while preserving the original review for internal records.
If needed, editors can send reviews back to reviewers for improvement or clarification—helping maintain a transparent and high-quality publishing process.

Outcome and Results

The impact of our solution is already evident, with two leading publishers joining as pre-release partners and a total contract value (TCV) of $5.2M secured. Strong early market interest highlights the demand for a modernized peer review system, while projections indicate a 33% increase in workflow efficiency, streamlining the process for both publishers and reviewers.t and high-quality publishing process.