• Provides administrative support for the processing and peer review of standard manuscript submissions • Handles routine phone and email inquiries from authors and reviewers • Works closely with the journal’s editorial board to facilitate the peer review process for articles submitted to PNAS • Reports to the Assistant Managing Editor or Senior Editorial Coordinator and keeps them informed about problem papers • Oversees all aspects of peer review coordination from submission to transmittal for research articles • Completes quality control checks for incoming research articles • Corresponds with authors, editors, and reviewers about needed items, deadline extensions, pending submissions, and status inquiries • Notifies authors of manuscript decisions • Screens revisions for plagiarism and escalates to editorial ethics manager as needed • Monitors updates to the online submission systems and ensures requisite changes are made to the Information for Authors • Merges or updates reviewer records with current information to maintain an up-to-date database/reviewer pool • Transmits manuscripts to production vendor • Acts as the point of contact for production queries received from the production vendor • Contributes input for enhancements to the submission system • Performs a variety of clerical and administrative tasks such as answering general queries sent to the editorial inbox and answering the telephone • Special projects and additional tasks as assigned