Forming Author & Reviewer lists and automatic assignment

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Hi,

I’m trying to have a list for a set of reviewers and authors and have the reviewers only be able to review submissions from authors of their list. Also, is there a way to automate the reviewer assignment?

I’m using OJS 3.1.1.

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Hi @B5045438,

OJS doesn’t currently do either of those things – you’d need to modify it or write a plugin.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Which part of the API handles this?

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Perhaps I can make a plugin that gets the users id and stores them in lists and only shows reviewers in the same list of author in the reviewer assignment page? Is something like this possible using your API?

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Hi @B5045438,

The OJS API isn’t a good fit for this kind of thing. However, you may be able to accomplish it using a generic plugin. I’d suggest doing some general reading on the plugin system in the OJS Technical Reference – this manual is by now quite old (we’re hoping to rewrite it soon) but the general concepts still apply.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Done some reading on that and thought of these possible changes:

Domain plugin modifications

*Action*			*change*						
During submission		Select research group from drop down		

Editor assigns reviewer		Only show reviewers who made a submission and a submission in the same research group

I’m just trying to think of which hooks to use and how do I change the forums to add a drop down if that is even possible.

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Hi @B5045438,

Determining which hooks to use will need some familiarity with the form handling code – you might try adding a temporary error_log($hookName); call in HookRegistry::call to dump out all hooks as they’re called, to get a starting point.

As for overriding aspects of markup, that can be complicated; you might consider looking into Smarty postfilters. I believe one or two built-in OJS plugins use that approach.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team