CHAIR HOW-TO: Manage Meta-Reviewer Note

OVERVIEW

The Chairs may use the Meta-Reviewer Note to see if they performed certain tasks and or get information not otherwise gotten from other avenues.
In this case we will use the Meta-Reviewer Note to inform the Chairs about Desk Reject recommendations.

META-REVIEWER NOTE PAGE

Settings Tab

• Go to the Settings tab, click 'Notes>Meta-Reviewer,' then '+Add new question.'

Create New Question

• In the Create New Question window, enter the text of your question. In this case we entered ‘Desk Reject: Yes or No and why.’ Save changes.

Verify Question Added

• Verify the question was added to the Meta-Reviewer Note page.

Enable Meta-Reviewer Submission

• From the Settings tab, go to Activity Timeline>Deadlines and enable ‘Meta-Reviewer Submission’ with a proper end date. Save the changes.

CHAIR CONSOLE

• Verify the Meta-Review Note column was added to the Chair Console.

META-REVIEWER CONSOLE

This is from the perspective of the Meta-Reviewer.
After the Meta-Reviewer gives their cursory examination of the newly submitted paper, they will let the Chairs know if they think it should be Desk Rejected.

Note

If Meta-Reviewer questions were created prior, the Meta-Reviewer should be instructed only to fill in the note, not enter a review.

• From the Meta-Reviewer Console, click ‘Add’ in the Meta-Reviewer Note column of the desired paper.

• In the Edit Meta-Reviewer Note page, enter the information in the textbox. Click ‘Submit.’

• The Meta-Reviewer verifies the answer to the Note question appears in the Meta-Reviewer Console.

CHAIR CONSOLE

• After the Meta-Reviewer adds the answer to the Note question, from the Chair Console click the number 1 that shows in the Meta-Reviewer Note column for that paper.

• View the Meta-Reviewer Notes