Fast Track

Fast track is an optional administrative priority service offered by the journals hosted on Oxton Journals. It exists for situations in which authors have legitimate time constraints — funding deadlines, regulatory requirements, time-sensitive findings — and need predictable, accelerated administrative handling of their manuscript.

What Fast Track Does

• Prioritizes the manuscript in the editorial screening queue;
• Accelerates reviewer invitation and assignment, with shorter administrative deadlines;
• Prioritizes production scheduling (copyediting, layout and proofing) after acceptance;
• Generates internal deadline alerts for the editorial team at every stage.

What Fast Track Does Not Do

• It does not guarantee acceptance — fast-tracked manuscripts are rejected whenever the science does not meet the journal's standards;
• It does not replace or shorten peer review itself — the same double-blind evaluation, with the same rigor, is applied;
• It does not influence the editorial decision — editors evaluate fast-tracked manuscripts under identical scientific criteria;
• It does not bypass ethics requirements — all declarations and documentary checks remain mandatory.

Ethical Safeguards

The independence between payment and decision is structural: the financial administration of fast track requests is handled separately from the editorial workflow, and a rejection automatically closes the fast track service for that manuscript. The scientific decision always stands. This design follows international good practice on expedited editorial services and is auditable in the platform's editorial records.

How to Request

Fast track may be requested during submission or at any later stage from the author dashboard, subject to the administrative fee published on each journal's Publishing Fees page. Approval of the request is administrative, not editorial, and authors are notified of every status change.