What is MARS
MARS (Manuscript Assessment and Reporting System) is an online platform for assisting authors and publishers by evaluating the quality of their manuscript. The platform helps identify any possible pitfalls upstream in the article publishing process.
Featuring the ability to:
- Analyze content
- Check for completeness
- Ensure proper structure
- Identify language quality using Natural Language Processing (NLP) & Machine Learning (ML)
- Generate reports
- Controlled workflow
Publishers
MARS is a revolutionary evaluation tool that scores journal manuscripts for editorial accuracy, technical structure and overall presentation, providing publishers with a critical first impression. Rankings separate clean manuscripts from problematic ones, and MARS offers publishers access to smart technology tools that can streamline the peer review and publication process.
Authors
MARS is an invaluable tool for any author of a journal manuscript who wants an initial, risk-free appraisal of its editorial accuracy, technical structure and overall presentation. Smart technology scans the manuscript and scores it for several factors, from grammar to citations. MARS can help clear your manuscript’s path to final publication.
Benefits of MARS
MARS provides a preliminary score of a manuscript’s adherence to editorial and stylistic parameters. It is thus an immediate indication of how polished a manuscript is. Is the manuscript rife with grammatical errors, misspellings, incomplete references, and missing tables or figures? If so, publishers may still decide to proceed with the peer review and acceptance processes. Armed with MARS feedback, however, they can also insist that the author address and correct these early concerns. MARS implements journal-specific styles, verifies references, checks for missing art, formats text, and flags a host of potential errors. Publishers no longer need to waste their valuable time on manuscripts of poor quality. Peer reviewers receive clean manuscripts and can thereby focus on the paper’s science without being annoyed and distracted by missing assets or poorly presented content. MARS shortens peer review as well as in-house assessment procedures, saving the journal publisher money while also making its articles more timely than ever before.