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* Only necessary if you are inviting the Peer reviewer for the first time.
From COPE Journal Audit:
Do your journal office and website have detailed guidelines on if and how authors can recommend peer reviewers or request that certain people not be peer reviewers? [9.1.1.4]
4 Peer review checklists
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A statement that acceptance of the invitation to peer review for Cochrane is also taken as consent for Peer reviewer details to be stored within the Cochrane Peer reviewer database.
5 Managing named peer review
From January 2019, and consistent with Cochrane's core principles, including open and transparent communication and decision making, all CRGs will adopt a named peer review process, in which the Cochrane Review author and Peer reviewer know each other’s names and affiliations during the peer review process. See section 2 of the Cochrane Peer Review Policy.
From COPE Journal Audit:
Do your journal office and website have detailed peer reviewer guidelines, including expected turnaround times, if potential impact is a criterion, whether they are allowed to contact the authors, whether they are allowed to seek peer review assistance, whether there are template forms, whether confidential notes/scores/recommendations to the editor are expected/allowed, and that the editor makes decisions on acceptance/rejection? [9.1.2]
EMD note: Some yes and some no; clarifications to be added to policy and guidance.
5 Managing named peer review
From January 2019, and consistent with Cochrane's core principles, including open and transparent communication and decision making, all CRGs will adopt a named peer review process, in which the Cochrane Review author and Peer reviewer know each other’s names and affiliations during the peer review process. See section 2 of the Cochrane Peer Review Policy.
During the implementation phase of the peer review policy (until January 2019), Peer reviewers may wish to During the implementation phase of the peer review policy (until January 2019), Peer reviewers may wish to opt out of named peer review and remain anonymous to the authors. The following describes a suggested method for managing this process when using Archie Workflows.
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Note Title | Contains | 2018 closed peer review submitted
From COPE Journal Audit:
Do your journal office and website have detailed guidelines on the confidentiality of peer review? [9.1.1.7]
EMD note: Peer reviewer invitation email states that peer review must be confidential, but we operate a system of named peer review. Also included in expectations of peer reviewers. Needs some clarification.
6 6 Delegation of peer review responsibilities
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Note that the CRG and DTA Editorial Teams are under no obligation to grant permission to delegate peer review responsibilities
7 Declarations of potential conflicts of interest for peer reviewers
Peer reviewers must declare any potential conflicts of interest every time they undertake peer review of a Cochrane Review. See Section 5 of the Cochrane peer review policy for further details.
From COPE Journal Audit:
Do your journal office and website have detailed peer reviewer guidelines, including expected turnaround times, if potential impact is a criterion, whether they are allowed to contact the authors, whether they are allowed to seek peer review assistance, whether there are template forms, whether confidential notes/scores/recommendations to the editor are expected/allowed, and that the editor makes decisions on acceptance/rejection? [9.1.2]
EMD note: Some yes and some no; clarifications to be added to policy and guidance.
7 Declarations of potential conflicts of interest for peer reviewers
Peer reviewers must declare any potential conflicts of interest every time they undertake peer review of a Cochrane Review. See Section 5 of the Cochrane peer review policy for further details.
Standard Cochrane peer review checklists include a declaration of potential conflicts of interest (Figure 1Standard Cochrane peer review checklists include a declaration of potential conflicts of interest (Figure 1). If a CRG uses a modified version of the checklist, it must include this question, without any amendments. CRGs that do not use the standard checklists, and the DTA Editorial Team, must ensure that this question is included in the materials sent to the Peer reviewer. The response from the Peer reviewer should be reviewed and recorded in Archie.
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It is the responsibility of the CRG or DTA Editorial Team to decide whether potential conflicting interests are sufficient to withdraw the participation of the Peer reviewer and to invite an alternative Peer reviewer. If the CRG or DTA Editorial Team considers the conflict of interest to be minor and agrees that it is unlikely to affect the judgement of the Peer reviewer, the CRG or DTA Editorial Team must disclose the potential conflict of interest to the review authors when sharing the Peer reviewer’s comments. If the CRG or DTA Editorial Team considers the conflict of interest to be major and agrees that it is possible that it will affect the judgement of the Peer reviewer, the Peer reviewer must be replaced.
If necessary, the CRG or DTA Editorial Team may request advice from the Cochrane funding arbiter.
Peer reviewer must be replaced.
If necessary, the CRG or DTA Editorial Team may request advice from the Cochrane funding arbiter.
From COPE Journal Audit:
COI and peer review | Does your journal require reviewers to report any potential conflicts of interest before agreeing to review a specific submission? [4.2.2.1]
EMD note: In the peer review guidance it is best practice to send the peer review form (which contains COI questions) when inviting peer reviewers so that they can consider COI policy before agreeing to review, but returning the COI statements before agreeing to review is not currently mandatory.
Do your journal office and website have detailed peer reviewer guidelines, including expected turnaround times, if potential impact is a criterion, whether they are allowed to contact the authors, whether they are allowed to seek peer review assistance, whether there are template forms, whether confidential notes/scores/recommendations to the editor are expected/allowed, and that the editor makes decisions on acceptance/rejection? [9.1.2]
EMD note: Some yes and some no; clarifications to be added to policy and guidance.
8 Acknowledgement
As a minimum, the names of all Peer reviewers who have submitted a peer review report or completed peer review checklist during the current calendar year will be published on the CRG website, unless the Peer reviewer has not consented to this. Lists from previous years must be archived and publically accessible from the CRG website. See Section 6 of the Cochrane peer review policy for further details.
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The CRG or DTA Editor with sign-off responsibility for the Cochrane Review is responsible for ensuring that authors have considered and incorporated any relevant and reasonable Peer reviewers’ comments that they receive.
From COPE Journal Audit:
Do your journal office and website have detailed guidelines on possible outcomes of peer review and how they are relayed to the author/s? [9.1.1.9]
11 Feedback to Peer reviewers
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