Go to Peer review > Form to access the reviewing form.
Note: Peer review is available from the Advanced plan. If your plan doesn't include it, Peer review shows in the menu with a diamond icon. Click it to see how to upgrade.
Edit the reviewing form
Add a form section
Click Add section to create a form section that will contain your form fields. You need at least one section. Enter a title for this section and a description (optional).
Configure form fields
You can add any field you like to the reviewing form to collect feedback from reviewers. See the form management section for more information.
Reviewing forms have a specific field type: Score. A score field type allows the reviewer to choose a score between 1 and X. The value of X can be from 1 to 25.
This is what a score field from 1 to 5 looks like for the reviewer:
Tip: We recommend adding at least 2 or 3 fields of type Score. These fields are used to calculate a numerical score for each submission.
Edit the reviewing period
Under Settings, you can change the reviewing period, that is, the period within which reviewers can complete their assigned reviews. Outside those dates, only the organizers can modify the form.
In the example below, the reviewing period is set to February 1st 2024 19:00 to February 29th 2024 at noon.
Select the fields visible to reviewers
You can select which fields are visible to reviewers. This is useful to hide data like authors, or submitter information that is not relevant for the review and that could bias the reviews.
For example, you can make only the title, topic and abstract visible to reviewers. Here's how to select which fields are visible to reviewers:
Go to your review form and click Settings.
Under Fields visible to reviewers, select the fields you want visible. You can select multiple fields from the dropdown menu.
In the example below only the title, abstract and topic were selected.
Note 1: the title and abstract are always visible to reviewers. They can't be hidden from reviewers.
Note 2: when organizers are looking at the reviews from the event dashboard, they see all fields, even those not selected in this dropdown menu. Reviewers, from their review panel only see the selected fields.
Questions
Can I create a second reviewing form or a separate group of reviewers?
No. Each event has one reviewing form, and all reviewers use it. Reviewers are not split into groups.
To collect different feedback for different submissions, add a Dropdown or Single select field to the form, for example "Review type". Then open another field, go to its Conditions tab, and select Conditional. Choose Visible only when a given option is selected. The reviewer sees that field only after they choose the option.