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Why can't I have a single ScholarOne login for every journal I submit or review for? Is there some way to copy over the address, keywords & password for all my accounts so I don't have to waste time making the same stuff up every time I get involved with another journal?

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The real question in my opinion is "why do I need to fill in all of this stuff?". Names and affiliations of the authors are already in the paper, so there is no need to copy them back in. Author accounts can be replaced by openid. Reviewer accounts can be replaced by special links containing a unique id (many already do it). All you need is something that lets you upload a pdf. – Federico Poloni Aug 23 '12 at 21:47

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Thank you for your question. My name is Jasper Simons and I work for Thomson Reuters, the organization behind ScholarOne. Our platform is configured by our publishers as they service their authors and editors. Publishers seek to maximize the value they offer to their journals, their editors and their authors through specific configurations of the ScholarOne peer-review workflow. This doesn't address your concern, but I hope that it sheds some light on the reasoning behind the multiple login requirements for authors. In short, there is one ScholarOne platform but there are many site configurations.

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What is a "configuration" in your jargon? Does that word include the user database? – Federico Poloni Aug 23 '12 at 21:44
Sorry about that. Configurations refer to the specific peer-review workflow set up for a particular journal site or group of journal sites. Those are defined by the editorial office of the publisher or association. This includes choices such as "double-blind review" or not, and whether to assign manuscripts to an associate editor or directly to the editor-in-chief etc. – Jasper Simons Aug 24 '12 at 12:05
@Federico: ScholarOne is pursuing collaborations with ORCID to allow direct ingestion of user/author data through the ORCID. I'll separately look into why we wouldn't take such data points directly from an author submitted PDF. I suspect that there might be issues with validation of data that limit the use of such a solution but I am not sure. – Jasper Simons Aug 24 '12 at 12:09
Follow Up: Authors can already utilize ResearcherID or upload manuscripts through EndNote which will automatically pull your author data into ScholarOne, reducing the step to add your details manually. – Jasper Simons Aug 24 '12 at 12:24
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I think the primary issue is the fact that because different publishers are responsible for maintaining the different author and referee databases, it's impractical (or perhaps even impossible) to share them between different journals. If you had the ability to get somebody else's database, it would be a potentially tempting target. So I think that everything is locked to a specific journal, without the ability to transfer between them. You can probably use the same login information for all of the different journals, but you'll need to register for each one separately.

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