Reviewer reports

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I want to know if it’s possible to to run reports relating to the Reviewer database to get information about the reviewers rather than the specific reviews they’ve conducted.

We want to keep better track of which reviewers are active and inactive, how review requests are distributed among our reviewers, which subject areas have many reviewers and which have relatively few. We want to use this information to do things like periodically remind less active reviewers to keep their Reviewing Interests up-to-date in OJS and to identify subject areas where we need to recruit additional reviewers in order to spread out reviewing work more equitably.

To that end, I want to run a report that gathers information about:

  • How many reviews each reviewer has conducted
  • Reviewing Interest keywords that I can export elsewhere for data cleaning and analysis

Is this possible? We’re on version 3.3.0.17 but hosted by UofT Libraries so must ask them for any administrative work.

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Hi @tannerna,

Presently, I don’t believe that such functionality exists in OJS, and it doesn’t appear to be planned for future development, so far as I can tell. Your use case sounds similar to what is featured in this feature request here: Pull Reviewer Ratings in Reviewer Report? - #2 by rcgillis

You may wish to add your comments and voice your support for such functionality on that post.

-Roger
PKP Team

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Dear Tannerna,
I share your frustration as we had the same problem and need. It is incredible that it is not possible to pull out at least a tidy list of reviewers listed in the system with their classifications. We needed to get reviewers to log in and enter their keywords and proceeded as follows:

  1. we exported all users from the tool [Users XML Plugin]
  2. converted xml in excel
  3. cleaned up this list, as each user is listed once for each role in the journal
  4. then sent an email with links and instructions on how to proceed to update/enter keywords

On another note, you may find the reports generated by ReviewerCredits (peer review report and editorial decision report) quite well done. The reports alone are worth joining ReviewerCredits (which offers free participation to journals with a basic profile).

I hope this helps and I hope that the great OJS team will work on reporting :slight_smile:
Regards!

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Thanks! Yes, we’d already decided that our backup plan was to send a more generic reminder email to all our Reviewers using the User Export function to generate a list – I just wish there was something more precise for the rest of my needs!