Glossary of system terms

EM terminology	Explanation / Cochrane equivalent
Alternate (Alt.)	Alternate reviewers are secondary reviewers you can select when choosing to invite people for peer review. Alternates will receive an invitation email if a primary reviewer declines or does not respond to the invitation within 7 days.
Article	Submitted work going through the editorial process: review proposals, protocols, reviews, updates, amendments, podcasts, editorials, clinical answers etc.
Article type	Review type and stage (example: Review: Intervention).
Assign (Asn.)	Assign a task to someone if you already have their prior agreement to complete it - e.g. you would assign an author to a review if they had already completed the protocol.
Assigned submissions	Reviews assigned to you for editorial oversight.
Child Submission or Commentary	Subsequent submission for the same title, at the next stage of the editorial process - e.g. if the protocol is the Parent Submission, the review would be the Child Submission or Commentary.
Convey	Third-party global conflict of interest submission system and repository, integrated with EM. Only available for manuscripts submitted before 2 June 2025. See Declarations of interest.
Correspondence	Email correspondence related to a review. Also known as Correspondence History.
Corresponding Author	Contact Person - responsible for submitting the review to EM and handling contact from the editorial base on behalf of the author team.
Derivative Content	Content dependent on a parent article such as a Clinical Answer or podcast derived from a review.
Editor	Member of editorial team or group editor.
Editor Decision	Editor's verdict on a review, which would vary based on the quality of the content and the extent of changes required - e.g. Minor Revision, Major Revision, Accept, Reject.
File Inventory	Files related to a submission, accessible from the Manuscript menu. Can include source files such as RevMan files and figures.
Final Disposition	Final editorial decision on a submission in EM e.g. Accept or Reject. Setting a Final Disposition closes the editorial process for a particular stage.
Handling Editor	Member of the editorial team actively responsible for a submission at a particular stage - e.g. an ME could make an AME a Handling Editor to take over the peer review process and assign peer reviewers.
Initiate Production	Manually initiate the copy-edit process.
Initiate Proposal	Invite authors to submit their work to EM.
Invitation (Inv.)	Invite someone to complete a task if you want to give them the option to accept or decline (see also Assign).
Letter	Email template.
Minor / Major Revision	Editorial decision terms in EM based on the level of effort needed to revise a submission to reach accepted status.
Manuscript	General term similar to article or submission.
Parent Submission	Original submission which starts the editorial process (see also Child Submission).
Proxy	Take over another user's account to see what they see. This cannot be used to change user data such as passwords. You cannot proxy above your own permissions - e.g. an Editor cannot proxy as an ME.
Reviewer	Anyone making comments on a review - this could be a peer or Patient and Public reviewer, an editor, or Information Specialist reviewing the search strategy.
Section Category	Cochrane Review Group.
Solicit commentary	Invite a Child Submission (next stage of a review) based on the a submission with Final Disposition. This automatically relates the submissions - e.g. you would Solicit Commentary on an accepted Title Proposal to invite authors to start work on the protocol.
Submission	Work submitted for editorial approval.
Transmittal form	Form provided to the copy-editor once a protocol, review or update is accepted for publication.