Review future issues?

[akhi003]

A general question:

Is there an option available to select reviewers on the issue-level instead of the file level? I have multiple files that are all going to be reviewed by the same people (~10) and all of these articles are going to be in the same issue. I didn't know if there is a way to do this instead of assigning multiple reviewers to each file for multiple files (a tedious way).

This is for a future issue and the idea is that the entire issue (and it's articles) will be reviewed by ~10 people before it is published. They will download the files offline and send in their reviews manually (i.e. not through the system).

Thanks,

Nabeel

[asmecher]

Hi Nabeel,

This would involve changing the current scheduling process, as articles are scheduled for issues at the end of the editing process; the issue that an article will be published in is usually not known at the time of review. I suppose one approach would be to add a feature allowing reviewers to be grouped and assigned en masse. I'll bring this suggestion up with the development team.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[akhi003]

Hi Alec,

Thanks for the information. I think that it could be a useful feature and am glad that you will bring it up with the development team. It would make sense that at times there is probably a greater group of people who review the same items and could be assigned as a group instead of individually.

Regards,

Nabeel