When assigning reviewers to a submission, the Add Reviewer modal only displays about 20 reviewers per page with pagination. Previously, the full list of reviewers was visible. This is critical for our workflow because we have 130+ reviewers.
Expected behaviour
Editors should be able to view all reviewers in one list, or the pagination limit should be configurable.
Steps taken leading up to the issue
Go to Submissions → select a submission
Click Participants → Add Reviewer
Search with no filters
Only ~20 reviewers are displayed with pagination
What application are you using?
OJS 3.5.0-1
Additional information
We have tried:
Increasing items_per_page in config.inc.php
Changing the journal’s “Items per page” setting in Website → Setup → Lists
Clearing both data and template caches
None of these changes affected the reviewer list pagination. The reviewer search modal appears to be capped at ~25 reviewers per page regardless of settings. We have also been scouring the web and forums for solutions but haven’t found a working fix.
Thanks for your detailed accounting of this issue. I’ve brought this to our attention of our dev/quality assurance team, and they’re reviewing the issue. Hopefully you’ll hear back soon.
I did test this on 3.5. In addition to our standard testing dataset I added 16reviewers, making total of 27 reviewers. And I don’t see pagination to come up there.
Can you confirm
That you are referring to the screen I am sharing in the screenshot
Number of the reviewers displayed in your case
And ideally some screenshot with the pagination visible?
Just to clarify based on further confirmation from our editor, there is actually no pagination visible at all in our case.
We can only see about 20 - 30 out of a 130+ reviewers listed randomly in the Add Reviewer modal, with no pagination controls appearing at the bottom of the list.
We’ve double-checked this across multiple accounts and browsers (Chrome and Safari), and the result is consistent - the reviewer list is limited without any pagination or option to load more.
Please see screenshot of the full modal example from our side for comparison.
