Un-blinding Reviewers

Reviewers have access to other Reviewers’ Comments to the Author and Comments to the Editor through RoleManager permissions.  These comments are automatically ‘blinded’ (e.g. the Reviewer’s name is suppressed), so that Reviewers cannot learn the identity of the other Reviewers on the submission.

 

The journal may ‘un-blind’ the Reviewer names once the Editor makes the Decision and the Decision letter has been sent to the Author.  This is controlled with a Reviewer RoleManager permission.

 

If the Reviewer Role is allowed to ‘View Un-Blinded Comments’, once the Author Notification letter is sent to the Author, the actual Reviewer names will appear in the Reviewer Comments grid and individual Reviewer Comments pages.

 

Note:  Editors always have access to the Reviewers’ names; this applies solely to the information people see when logged into EM with a Reviewer Role

 

To Configure:  Go to RoleManager, click on Reviewer Role, and click on ‘Edit’ next to each Reviewer role that should have this permission.  Click the checkbox next to the ‘View Un-Blinded Comments’ permission (below the 'View Final Disposition' permission) in the ‘Permissions for Completed Assignments Only’ section.