Overview of review page

Your single window to review manuscripts, invite & track reviewers and make recommendations/decisions 

Overview 

This step-by-step guide will help you learn how to use the review page to streamline your review by performing the following actions within a single window: 

View manuscript & files 

1. View the manuscript content 
   
2. View the submission form metadata 
   
3. View all the supporting files  
   

Make the manuscript ready for review 

1. Perform basic content tagging & formatting 
   
2. Blind manuscript content & files 
   
3. Run/view plagiarism report 
   

Add your review critique 

1. Add an overall review summary 
   
2. Add separate comments to authors and editors 
   
3. View review comments added by editors & reviewers 
   

Invite editors & reviewers 

1. Invite reviewers from publisher pool 
   
2. Invite reviewers from an external database 
   
3. Track reviewer invites & review progress 
   

View review history 

1. View the reviewer's details and their progress 
   
2. View the summary and comments of the editors and reviewers 
   
3. View the declaration details  
   
4. View the decision letters 
   

Make a recommendation/decision 

1. Accept or reject a manuscript 
   
2. Send back to author for revisions 

Who is this for? 

If you play any of the following editorial roles for a publisher, this guide gives you a step-by-step walkthrough to use the review page for all your assignments. Note that your role name would vary based on the publisher’s editorial board structure. 

1. Editor in chief 
   
2. Section editor 
   
3. Handling editor 
   
4. Associate editor 
   
5. Lead guest editor 
   
6. Guest editor 
   
7. Editorial assistant 
   

Additionally... 

Reviewers will access this page to preview the content and add their review comments and recommendations 

Authors will access this page to view all the review comments left by all editors and reviewers in one place, without having to download multiple annotated PDFs left by editors/reviewers 

Note: Sufficient blinding mechanisms are in place and controllable by editors to ensure that authors and reviewers do not see the blinded content.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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