Whether your product is in early or later phase development, and whether your plan is small or large, global or regional, we implement effective project and process management tools to support an efficient and successful publication plan. We can:

• Maintain a client publication tracking process that:
  • Develops and manages project timelines
  • Manages author agreements
  • Maintains routing and approval lists among internal stakeholders
  • Utilizes client's publication management system, if applicable
• Manage regular status meetings, including:
  • Scheduling weekly status meetings with internal publication manager
  • Developing premeeting agenda/slides and status reports for monthly meetings
  • Generating postmeeting minutes/summary
  • Reviewing and refining meeting strategy and message development as well as status of various projects
• Establish a client- and/or product-specific database profiling target journals:
  • Primary and secondary audiences
  • Indexing status
  • Circulation and print/online presence
  • Peer review status
  • Impact factor
  • Acceptance rates
  • Frequency of publication (weekly, monthly, etc)
  • Types of articles published/solicited
  • Average time to review
  • Average time to acceptance and publication
  • Open access opportunities
• And target congresses:
  • Meeting information (therapeutic areas, location, meeting dates, etc)
  • Attendee profiles and attendance numbers
  • Abstract deadlines
  • Encore presentation policies
  • Late-breaker deadlines
  • Abstract publication information (ie, journal, abstract book, purchase-only CD, none)
• Liaise between external and internal authors and other stakeholders to:
  • Identify appropriate journals/congresses
  • Draft and distribute outline/initial content for review
  • Collect and incorporate revisions
  • Distribute successive drafts for review and incorporate author revisions
  • Address other author feedback (eg, data requests)
  • Resolve conflicting direction from stakeholders, if necessary
  • Draft author inquiries to journal/congress
  • Prepare and circulate disclosure forms, copyright agreements, and acknowledgement consent forms
  • Submit files to journal/congress
• QC all content (editing, annotating, fact-checking, etc)
• Data mine study reports and make recommendations for future publications
• Research potential upcoming meetings and alternative journals to fill communication gaps
• Evaluate appropriateness of potential authors for these additional publications

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