Number of Days Reviewer Has to Respond to an Invitation setting

Journals can indicate a journal policy for the number of days Reviewers are given to respond to an invitation to review a submission.  This is identified on screen as 'Automatically un-invite Reviewers who do not respond within X day(s).  Set this number to 0 to turn off the automatic un-invitation process for this submission'.

This setting is used to automatically ‘un-invite’ a Reviewer if the Reviewer has not responded to the invitation to review within a predetermined number of days.  This is primarily used in conjunction with the Alternate Reviewer functionality.

A default required number of days to respond to an invitation is set in PolicyManager, under 'Edit Article Types'; each Article Type can have its own setting.  This number may be overridden on a per-submission basis on the Reviewer Selection Summary screen.  (Specific configuration instructions can be found below.)

To Configure:  Go to PolicyManager, then to 'Edit Article Types', and then choose an Article Type.  Find the item that says, ‘Number of Days Reviewer has to Respond to Invitation’.  Then enter the number of days a Reviewer is allowed to respond to the invitation before they are automatically un-invited.  Set the value to zero to turn off the automatic un-invitation process for all new submissions of that Article Type.