Recently, Aries customer Penn State University Press deployed Editorial Manager for several literary journals including The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Interdisciplinary Literature Studies,Steinbeck Review, and Studies in American Jewish Literature. This reflects an industry-wide increase in use of peer review systems for humanities and social science (HSS) journals; science, technical, and medical (STM) journals were first adopters of the technology.

Other university presses that use Editorial Manager include Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, Duke University Press, Edinburgh University Press, University of Nebraska Press, Ohio State University Press, Oxford University Press, and University of Pennsylvania Press.