A LegalManas Platform · Sister of CMDManas

Comprehensive Editorial Management for Journals & Edited Books

ManasEditorial gives universities, law schools and research institutes a complete manuscript pipeline — submission, double-blind peer review, revisions, decisions and issue assembly — for every journal and edited volume they publish, on one branded platform.

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Free for one publication · No credit card required · Hosted at editorial.legalmanas.com

From manuscript to publication

  • 1Author submits manuscript or chapter with abstract, keywords & co-authors
  • 2Editor runs desk check & invites reviewers by expertise
  • 3Double-blind reviews scored on multi-criteria forms
  • 4Decision — Accept / Minor / Major / Reject — with revision rounds
  • 5Accepted works assembled into issues, volumes & books
Everything you need

Built the Editorial-Manager way — for journals and books alike

Every workflow your editorial office runs today, without the spreadsheets and lost email threads.

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Structured submissions

Full manuscripts or book chapters with abstracts, keywords, subject classifications, multiple co-authors with ORCID and corresponding-author flags, and your own custom submission questions per publication.

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Double-blind review

Author and reviewer identities stay hidden throughout. Manuscripts are visible only to the author, the handling editor and assigned reviewers — with automatic anonymisation checks on uploads.

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Reviewer invitations

Editors invite reviewers from an expertise-tagged database. Reviewers accept or decline before seeing the paper, with automatic reminders and turnaround tracking.

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Multi-criteria scoring

Relevance, originality, soundness and clarity, plus overall recommendation, score and reviewer confidence — configurable per journal or book series.

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Revision rounds

Accept / Minor / Major / Reject decisions with unlimited revision cycles, versioned files, response-to-reviewers letters and a full round-by-round history.

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Issues, volumes & books

Assemble accepted articles into journal issues, or accepted chapters into edited volumes with section ordering, front matter and contributor lists — ready for production.

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Multi-journal, multi-institute

One institute, many publications. Each journal or book series gets its own branded workspace, editorial board, policies and ISSN/ISBN details under your institution's account.

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Editorial board & ethics

Public board rosters, COPE-aligned ethics declarations, plagiarism-report uploads, conflict-of-interest capture and audit trails for accreditation (NAAC/NBA/UGC-CARE readiness).

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Exports & reports

Download all submissions to Excel, bundle manuscripts as a ZIP, export reviewer performance and decision statistics, and generate acceptance-rate reports for indexing applications.

How it works

From call for papers to published issue

Submit

Authors submit manuscripts or chapters against your call for papers, with all metadata captured up front.

Desk check

Editors screen for scope, formatting and similarity before anything reaches a reviewer.

Invite & review

Expertise-matched reviewers accept the assignment, then score the blinded manuscript.

Decide & revise

Decisions with consolidated comments; authors revise and resubmit through tracked rounds.

Assemble

Accepted works flow into issues, volumes or books with DOIs and contributor lists.

For you

Built for institutes, editors, reviewers and authors

Your journals, your brand

Run every journal and edited book your institution publishes from one account — each with its own masthead, board, ISSN/ISBN and policies.

Accreditation-ready records

Complete audit trails of reviews, decisions and timelines, exportable for NAAC, NBA, BCI and UGC-CARE documentation.

No infrastructure to maintain

We host, secure and back up the platform at editorial.legalmanas.com — your team simply edits.

One desk for everything

New submissions, overdue reviews and pending decisions surfaced on a single dashboard across all your publications.

Reviewer intelligence

Invite by expertise tags, see acceptance rates and average turnaround before you assign.

Decision letters, drafted

Consolidated reviewer comments flow into editable decision-letter templates for every outcome.

Accept before you see

Review invitations show scope and abstract only — accept or decline before the blinded full text is revealed.

Structured forms

Criteria scoring plus comments to author and confidential comments to editor, saved as you type.

Recognition

Annual reviewer certificates and a verified review record for your own academic profile.

Submit in minutes

Guided submission with live anonymisation checks, co-author management and instant confirmation.

Always know the status

Track your manuscript from desk check to decision in real time — no more status-query emails.

Revise with clarity

Reviewer comments side by side with your response-to-reviewers letter in each revision round.

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Publications on ManasEditorial

Journals and edited volumes currently accepting submissions from institutions on the platform.

Pricing

Plans for every editorial office

Start free with one publication. Scale as your institution's publishing programme grows.

Starter
Free / forever
  • 1 journal or book project
  • Up to 50 submissions / year
  • Double-blind review workflow
  • Excel & ZIP exports
  • Community support
Most popular
Institution
₹24,999 / year
  • Up to 5 publications
  • Unlimited submissions
  • Custom submission questions
  • Branded workspaces & board pages
  • Reviewer database with expertise tags
  • Priority email support
University
Custom — talk to us
  • Unlimited publications
  • Custom domain & SSO
  • DOI & indexing integrations
  • Accreditation report pack
  • Onboarding & training for editors
  • Dedicated account manager
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About

Part of the LegalManas family

LegalManas is a research-based organization empowering legal minds through mentorship, research and academic infrastructure. CMDManas manages conferences; ManasEditorial brings the same rigour to journals and books — so institutes can run credible, transparent, well-documented publications without enterprise-software budgets.

Ready to run your journal or book series?

Create your institution's account, add your first publication, and open your call for papers today.

 
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