Hi,
Some of our editors wonder why the field “Affiliation” is mandatory when readers want to register as users:
They say that many of their users do not know what is meant by Affiliation and therefore would rather not fill in the field.
I would therefore suggest that the field should not be made mandatory
We are running OJS 3.1.1.4
Best
Niels Erik
Hello @nef,
This is already discussed in another forum post here: Affiliation mandatory, OJS 3.0.1.0 - #5 by vvucic - please refer to the information contained in that post for making the field optional.
Best regards,
Roger
This is something that we’ve debated for a long time. I agree that it shouldn’t be required, but apparently a lot of journals insist that this information is collected. I hope that in the future we will make it easier to determine on a journal-by-journal basis whether or not the field is required.