The PA EDitorial Advantage
PA EDitorial is a trusted partner to leading academic publishers, societies, and institutions, providing outsourced peer review and editorial management services since 2011. With a fully remote, globally distributed team spanning every timezone, we support over 200 academic journal titles on behalf of publishers including Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, and Wiley.
Our expertise spans peer review management from submission to decision through PA Managing EDitor, alongside research integrity services such as PA Triage EDitor and PA Archive EDitor. We also offer copy editing for publication-ready content via PA Copy EDitor, and individual service support through PA EDitorial Select — from reviewer selection to backlog and bottleneck clearance.
Our Services
PA Managing EDitor
PA Managing EDitor is our end-to-end peer review management service, delivered by experienced editorial specialists. We support all journal contributors, authors, editors, and reviewers, coordinating workflows and performing submission and acceptance checks to ensure manuscripts progress efficiently from submission to final decision.
PA Triage EDitor
PA Triage EDitor assesses manuscripts after initial submission checks and before editor or reviewer involvement, evaluating scope, quality, ethics, and integrity at an early, critical stage. Delivered with or without research integrity AI tools, this early triage step protects peer review time and safeguards journal quality for every submission.
Change Management
Hands-on support for publishers and societies implementing new submission systems, workflows, and AI or integrity tools. We guide transition, training, and optimisation, embedding sustainable editorial processes with minimal disruption to teams and peer review.
About Us
Managing peer review can quickly overwhelm even the most experienced editorial teams — rising submission volumes, growing backlogs, and the administrative burden of coordinating reviewers, editors, and authors all pull attention away from the editorial judgement that actually protects a journal’s standards.
With over 100 years of combined industry experience, our team brings the knowledge and know-how to take that burden on. We specialise in peer review and editorial management, supporting all contributors and their editorial boards — and we’re particularly known for our ability to nurture struggling or backlogged journals back to health.
System Support
Our team has hands-on, expert knowledge of the submission and peer review systems publishers rely on — including ScholarOne, Editorial Manager, REX, EJournalPress, OJS, EES, and PXP — as well as workflow tools like Asana and Moodle.
Beyond day-to-day management, we can also support system setup, configuration, and migration between platforms.
Giving You Back Your Time
Peer Review
We specialise in prestige peer review management. Working with journals and their editors to offer the highest level of support. We manage over 100 journals using a variety of different submission platforms.
Editing
Our team of highly experienced copyeditors will correct your spelling and punctuation, check the sentence structure, grammar and use of words, and impose consistency, using standard copyediting procedures throughout.
Social Media
Our academic social media services provide you with either full support or training and coaching to give societies, journals and businesses alike the online presence they need to raise brand awareness.
Training and Advice
PA Editorial’s training academy, established in 2022, provides training to journal contributors, including PA EDitorial’s Tier 1 Editorial Office Certificate. We also have some free handy tips for authors and reviewers.
