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 |
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 consumer reviewer, an editor, or Information Specialist reviewing the search strategy |
Section Category | Cochrane Review Group, within the Cochrane Network site - e.g. Fertility Regulation is a Section Category in the Children and Families Network |
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 |