One of our journals received a submission that has now been through one round of peer review with the decision to require revisions. The editors created a new review round and encountered a problem when trying to assign one of the round 1 reviewers to the 2nd round. Next to the reviewers name, there is a message that reads “This reviewer completed a review in the last round.” Is there possibly a setting that needs to be adjusted or some other way to allow the round 1 reviewer to be assigned to the 2nd round?
HI @nwojcik,
What version of OJS are you working from (e.g. 3.3.0-17)? Please indicate this in posts here on the forum.
-Roger
PKP Team
Hi @rcgillis ,
We are still having a problem assigning a round 1 peer reviewer to the second review round. Our journals are operating on OJS 3.4.0.8.
Thank you,
Nicholas
Hi @nwojcik,
I’ve inquired with some of our other team members about this - will try to get back to you as soon as I hear from them.
-Roger
PKP Team
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Hi @nwojcik,
I’m trying to reproduce the problem in OJS 3.4. I see a Reassign button, after clicking on it I’m able to assign the reviewer.
We were able to successfully reassign reviewer #2 to the 2nd review round. For that reviewer, there was a “Reassign” button. The problem only seems to be effecting reviewer #1, as shown in this screenshot; there is no “Reassign” button.
When I select the down arrow to the right of where the “Reassign” button should be, I get this:
I have the same problem, is there any solution?
@luismurillo We continued to test and reproduce the problem but to no avail. In order to prevent further delay with the article getting reviewed and published, the editors eventually assigned the article to an additional/new reviewer.
Current version: 3.4.0.8
We too are experiencing this problem. Has a solution been found except for assigning another reviewer which is not an option for us? Could it be something we have not done in round 1?
Same here. Current version: 3.4.0.9
Has anyone been able to come up with a solution yet?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
We encountered a very similar issue, but it only occurred when the reviewer is also an editor/manager: OJS does not allow reviewers to be editors in the second round of evaluation. · Issue #11799 · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub
It may be worthwhile checking what the decision of the reviewers in question were in the first review round. In our case, one of the two reviewers had declined the submission the other one requested revisions. Only the latter, the one requesting revisions could be reassigned in round two. Which makes sense from a workflow perspective. To be able to assign the other reviewer to the second round, journal editors can revert the reviewers decision, thus ignoring it for upcoming review rounds. After that the reviewer should be reassignable to another round.
Did anyone find a solution to this problem? I am using OJS 3.5.0.3 and I still have the issue.