My Suggest Reviewer Preferences

The Suggest Reviewer feature in EM allows an Editor to ask the EM system to ‘suggest’ qualified Reviewers based on a predetermined set of criteria defined in the ‘My Suggest Reviewer Preferences’.

There are two parts to configuring the ‘My Suggest Reviewer Preferences’ page:  identifying what kind of people should be excluded from the list of possible Reviewers, and identifying how the people in the list of possible Reviewers are sorted and displayed.

Part 1:  Excluding

-          Do you want to exclude people from the same institution as the Corresponding Author?

-          Do you want to exclude people from the same city as the Corresponding Author?

-          Do you want to exclude people with unavailable dates within ‘x’ number of days?

-          Do you want to exclude people with more than ‘x’ number of pending reviews?

-          Do you want to exclude people with fewer than ‘x’ number of matches between their personal classifications and the manuscript classifications?

-          Do you want to limit the statistical results of each person’s performance in the result set to a specified time period?

Part 2:  Sorting

-          Board membership

-          Number of matches to manuscript classifications

-          Number of pending reviews

-          Average number of days reviews are outstanding

-          Date last review completed

To Configure:  Each Editor has his or her own ‘Suggest Reviewer Preferences’.  Each Editor can configure their preferences by going to the ‘Reviewer Selection Summary’ page, accessible through the ‘Invite Reviewers’ link, scrolling to the bottom of the page, and clicking on the ‘My Suggest Reviewer Preferences’ link.  Also, the ‘Suggest Reviewer’ results page will allow an Editor access to their ‘My Suggest Reviewer Preferences’.