Authors can see in the dashboard if a reviewer did not completed the review, and the deadline expired.
What application are you using?
OJS 3.5.0.3.
Additional information
While our journal is quite transparent, namely, we are using open review (authors know who are the reviewers, reviewers know who are the authors), we would like this information to be only available through the decision email, and not allow the authors to know that we requested reviewers, and they did not accept or comply with the deadline.
We recently held a sprint event where the editors present thought we should be showing more information to authors! This seems to be an area of little consensus and I think we need to dig into some of the underlying causes for these requests.
There’s an existing issue filed here:
Could you give some thought to the causes behind editors wanting both more and less information shown to authors? My sense is that authors are anxious for an editorial decision that will lead to an accept/reject decision, and because submissions spend a significant amount of time in the review stage, it’s often the focus of author inquiries. Editors then have to field requests for information from authors about the information they’re providing. Your further feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team
I understand the request for transparency, and in fact, I understand better the request for transparency, than for hiding things.
In our case: it is very hard to get reviewers, and even when some say they will the job, they do not. For some papers we invite a lot of reviewers, as some fail the deadline, and we end up needing to ask more and more. If we receive an email from each author every time a reviewer deadline expired, we do not have time to do anything else.
Especially, then a journal is not commercial (no feed from readers or authors, no salary for editors) and everything is done because we love and believe the project, its get still more annoying…
I understand the difficulty to answer to the requests of different editors, but sometimes, hiding a few details help.
You might be surprised to hear that the requests for more information to be shown to authors were driven by the same motivation – that editors were receiving emails from authors worried about their submissions, and the editors felt that letting OJS provide more detail would help them better understand the status of their submissions.
It’s possible that tweaking the level of detail in either direction won’t stop authors from contacting editors…
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team