[OJS 3.3.0.8] Strange behaviour in reviewer search after user merge

[ewhanson]

Hi @ramon,

Thanks for sharing all the details here. It sounds like this could be related to your other post on Review Reports. Are these two issues occurring for the same journals/installations?

[OJS 3.3.0.8] Review report missing articles in list

Hello anyone, Description of issue or problem I’m having: In our journal we provide a list of reviewers that acted during the period an issue is being produced. We use the review report in OJS to filter articles with any review in a specific period. However, in 3.3.0.8 (we’re unsure if this is a current bug or if it’s preexisting to older versions!), we noticed an article is missing from the list. Now, we cannot trust the only tool we have to provide such information. The article we tested ha…

I’ll have a look into the user merging behaviour and see what effect this might be having.

A few clarification questions:

In the example you describe, were reviewers for two different journals merged into a single user?

What behaviour do you see when searching for reviewers from an account with lower permissions, (e.g. a section editor on a single journal only)? Do you still see the reviewers listed multiple times?

Another place to check would be the browser’s network tab while searching for the reviewer you describe above. You’d be looking for a request that looked something like http://localhost/stable/ojs330/index.php/publicknowledge/api/v1/users/reviewers?contextId=1&reviewStage=3&searchPhrase=ReviewerName&count=30&offset=0&_=1635289046687 and see what the response returns. You could compare the difference between the two different reviewers returned and see what the differentiating factor might be.

Thanks.

Best,

Erik
PKP Team