Gautam Kumar Upadhyay
Team Leader - Editorial (Journals)
Noida
Summary
Senior publishing professional with over six years of experience managing editorial operations across multi-journal academic and medical portfolios. Extensive expertise in editorial governance, workflow optimization, and policy compliance within high-volume submission environments. Proven ability to analyze performance metrics—including turnaround times, decision timelines, and operational efficiency—to implement process improvements and enhance scalability. Experienced in managing end-to-end stakeholder engagement across authors, editors, reviewers, and society partners, while collaborating cross-functionally to ensure timely, high-quality journal outputs aligned with global publishing standards and portfolio performance objectives.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Team Leader - Editorial
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
New Delhi
08.2022 - Current
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for editorial activities across several medical and academic journals.
- Lead, mentor, and performance-manage a seven-member editorial team, ensuring consistency, quality, and adherence to journal policies.
- Exercise editorial governance oversight, ensuring journals operate in alignment with publishing ethics frameworks, internal policies, and best practices.
- Oversee end-to-end manuscript workflows within Scriptor’s Zone, from submission through editorial decision.
- Supervise peer review operations at scale, including reviewer strategy, invitations, deadline tracking, and escalation of complex or sensitive cases.
- Review consolidated referee feedback, and support Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors in informed editorial decision-making.
- Act as the senior point of contact for editors, authors, reviewers, and society partners, ensuring a high-quality stakeholder experience.
- Collaborate with production, marketing, indexing, and senior publishing teams to support on-time publication, special issues, and journal development initiatives.
- Prepare and analyze editorial performance reports (submission volumes, turnaround times, reviewer efficiency), and provide data-driven recommendations to management.
- Set performance expectations for the team, monitoring progress towards goals and providing constructive feedback as needed.
- Developed team members'' skills through targeted coaching sessions, resulting in improved individual performance.
Editorial Assistant
Aptara Corporation Pvt. Ltd.
Noida
10.2020 - 08.2022
- Supported editorial office operations for international journals, including journals published in collaboration with the IEEE Computer Society, and other projects under the IEEE.
- Managed day-to-day manuscript processing in ScholarOne Manuscripts, ensuring accurate tracking and timely progression through peer review stages.
- Conducted initial technical and compliance checks, including formatting validation, submission completeness, author documentation, and ethical requirements.
- Improved communication between departments by serving as a liaison between editorial staff and other teams within the organization.
- Participated in daily editorial meetings by contributing ideas for future content, and providing updates on current projects, fostering a collaborative team environment.
- Proofread manuscripts and other forms of copy for general grammatical correctness.
- Handled internal staff correspondence through emails and scheduling.
- Coordinated peer review workflows with international editorial boards, reviewers, and society stakeholders, ensuring strict adherence to journal timelines and publishing standards.
- Monitored manuscripts across review and revision cycles, contributing to improved turnaround times, and workflow efficiency.
- Handled author and reviewer queries professionally, ensuring clear, timely, and policy-aligned communication in accordance with publisher and society guidelines.
- Provided operational and system-level support to editors, troubleshooting workflow and platform-related issues within ScholarOne.
- Contributed to maintaining the high editorial and technical standards expected within IEEE-affiliated scholarly publishing environments.
- Managed EICs calendar of meetings, editorial tasks, and overall publication.
Assistant Managing Editor
Pulsus Healthtech LLP
Gurugram
10.2019 - 10.2020
- Supported end-to-end editorial management of medical and healthcare journals using Editorial Manager, ensuring accurate manuscript tracking and smooth workflow progression.
- Coordinated the complete peer review lifecycle, including reviewer identification, invitations, follow-ups, and timeline monitoring, to maintain editorial efficiency.
- Conducted initial manuscript screening for quality, formatting compliance, submission completeness, and adherence to journal policies.
- Managed author, reviewer, and editor communications, facilitating revision cycles, and timely editorial decision processing.
- Performed pre-production quality control, including fact verification, proofreading coordination, metadata validation, and final file preparation for production handover.
- Maintained editorial records and system accuracy while resolving workflow and platform-related issues.
- Contributed to journal development through editorial board coordination, manuscript acquisition initiatives (author outreach and special issue support), promotional activities, and Article Processing Charge (APC) coordination in collaboration with finance teams.
- Handled final approval of content deliverables.
Education
Master of Science - Biochemistry - Life Sciences
Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University
Jaunpur09.2019
Skills
Team leadership
Strategic project planning
Project management
Project workflow management
Editorial oversight
Proofreading
Copy editing
Publishing workflow management
Production preparation
Content management
Stakeholder management
Strong attention to detail
Certification
Certified Data Analyst (ID:153329077), SimpliLearn - June 26, 2025
Timeline
Team Leader - Editorial
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers
08.2022 - Current
Editorial Assistant
Aptara Corporation Pvt. Ltd.
10.2020 - 08.2022
Assistant Managing Editor
Pulsus Healthtech LLP
10.2019 - 10.2020
Master of Science - Biochemistry - Life Sciences
Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University
Honor Awards
1st Prize - Science Awareness Quiz, 2018-06-01, TEQIP, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur