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With Elsevier’s communication channels, you can keep up to date with your publications, new discoveries in your field and hot topics in the community. You can also make sure your views are heard on the issues that are important to you and see how we respond to your feedback.

Authors' Update

Authors' Update is an online resource to keep current and future journal authors in touch with the latest industry and Elsevier developments, as well as offering practical advice on how to get published and get the best impact for your work. It also provides information on the support and training available to you. The comment function at the bottom of each article provides a valuable forum for you to share your vies, stories or examples of best practice with your peers.

ScienceDirect alerts

Search alerts notify you when a stored search retrieves new results.

• Volume/issue alerts notify you when new issues of selected journals are available

• Topic alerts notify you when new articles pertaining to a specific topic are available

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Scopus alerts

Scopus alerts are email notifications of new content. These alerts are also available in a mobile application. To set up alerts and manage your preferences, visit My Alerts.  opens in new tab/window

• Search alerts notify you each time a saved search renders new results

• Author citation alerts notify you when a document by one of your selected authors is cited

• Document citation alerts notify you when one of your selected document is cited

Mendeley Impact

As a published author, Mendeley Impact provides you with a unique, connected view of how your published articles are performing in terms of citations, how many Mendeley users have read your articles, views of the articles you have published in an Elsevier publication, and your h-index and media mentions. Having this view helps you to evaluate and demonstrate your research impact.

Mendeley Impact is an Elsevier service for authors, but is not limited to Elsevier publications. Based on Scopus, it also provides citation information for articles published with other publishers.

If you're interested, read more about Mendeley Impact.

Don’t yet have a Mendeley profile? Create a Mendeley account opens in new tab/window and start seeing your Impact.

Valuing your feedback

The author feedback program is a continuous survey of authors' experience of publishing with Elsevier. Corresponding authors of recently published articles are invited to answer questions about their publishing experience, providing insights into what authors think about Elsevier’s journals and the support they receive.

The program has been running since 1999, and more than 60,000 authors complete the survey every year.

Feedback leads to change

We take author feedback very seriously. We have made many changes to our services as a result of authors’ feedback, and we are dedicated to continuous improvement.

Learn more about the author feedback program.

Improving publication time

I was dismayed when after the rapid review, revision, acceptance, proof page, and online publication, that the actual article was delayed for so long.

Response: We are doing our utmost to ensure each manuscript receives a fast and thorough review. To support this, we have developed a reviewer recommender tool that helps editors find the right reviewers for your manuscript to speed up the process. We have also accelerated our production process over the last few years, so that in most cases, your manuscript is online only a few days after acceptance.

Improving the submission process

I am not sure I agree with the fact that a large number of manuscripts simply don't get reviewed. From an author's standpoint, it is a waste of time to submit to such a Journal because even if the paper is rejected from other journals, at the very least, we are able to get peer-review comments.

Response: We launched the complimentary Article Transfer Service to tackle this problem. If a paper is out of scope, the editor can recommend it for another journal. The author can then choose whether to transfer their manuscript, without having to reformat or resubmit.

Improving journal matching

Finding an appropriate journal is a challenge for me, I would suggest a system can help on this.

Response: Journal Finder opens in new tab/window responds to this problem by helping authors match their article to the most relevant Elsevier journals, using the title and abstract. The tool provides authors with key information about the relevant journals, enabling them to make an informed decision about where to submit.

Improving article structure and expanding content

I would love if Elsevier would start publishing graphical abstracts…. I think graphical abstracts are more helpful than written abstract.

Response: Most journals now accept graphical abstracts, which summarize articles in a concise, image-based format, designed to engage a wide readership online.

Enabling data publication and availability

It would be nice to put online the data used in manuscripts.

Response: We recognize the importance of readily accessible data and that is why we have evolved several innovative solutions, including the ability to upload research data directly to Mendeley Data when submitting your manuscript. For more information on how we support data sharing, including how you can publish in our suite of pioneering Research Elements journals, please visit our research data page.