How to remove Peer Reviewers from masthead in OJS 3.5

Feature Requests
1

Describe the problem you would like to solve
OJS 3.5 automatically creates a list of peer reviewers for inclusion on the masthead, along with the editorial staff.

We are a feminist peer-reviewed, online, open access journal and we are a frequent target for trolls. We do not want to include a list of our peer reviewers on our website, as we would prefer to avoid exposing them to harassment or otherwise; it is enough for us that authors’ names are provided.

We do conduct rigorous double-blind reviews for every research article and regularly reach out to specific experts for their views, including racialized and Indigenous people. In doing this, we accept responsibility for maintaining the blind in perpetuity.

Describe the solution you’d like
We would like to be able to exclude all of our peer reviewers from the masthead in particular and the public face of the website in general.

Who is asking for this feature?
The journal’s editorial collective requests this exclusion.

Additional information
This post is a Feature Request developed from another post on the general board.

2

Go to lib\pkp\templates\frontend\pages and edit editorialMasthead.tpl
Delete this code

{if $reviewers->count()}
		<h2>{translate key="common.editorialMasthead.peerReviewers"}</h2>
		<p>{translate key="common.editorialMasthead.peerReviewers.description" year=$previousYear}</p>
		<ul class="user_listing" role="list">
		{foreach from=$reviewers item="reviewer"}
			<li>
				{strip}
					<span class="name">
						{$reviewer->getFullName()|escape}
						{if $reviewer->getData('orcid') && $reviewer->getData('orcidAccessToken')}
							<span class="orcid">
								<a href="{$reviewer->getData('orcid')|escape}" target="_blank" aria-label="{translate key="common.editorialHistory.page.orcidLink" name=$reviewer->getFullName()|escape}">
									{$orcidIcon}
								</a>
							</span>
						{/if}
					</span>
					{if !empty($reviewer->getLocalizedData('affiliation'))}
						<span class="affiliation">{$reviewer->getLocalizedData('affiliation')|escape}</span>
					{/if}
				{/strip}
			</li>
		{/foreach}
		</ul>
	{/if}
3

Thank you.

We’ll give it a go, although it won’t be quickly, and I’ll let you know how it goes.