Permit declined reviews to be reinitiated

[asmecher]

Describe the problem you would like to solve
Example: Our editors need a way to respond to reviewers who decline reviews, but later indicate that they are willing to undertake it.

Describe the solution you'd like
After the review is declined by the reviewer, an editor should be able to either reset its status (so the reviewer can accept it themselves) or accept it on the reviewer's behalf.

Who is asking for this feature?
@ajnyga :)

Migrated from #2508 (comment)

PRs

pkp-lib --> #9896
ojs --> pkp/ojs#4246 [TEST ONLY]
omp --> pkp/omp#1704 [TEST ONLY]

This is for the additional enhancement proposed at #4789 (comment)

[codybennett]

I also support this feature request!

With the stipulation it also works vice-versa, in that if an editor accepts but later decides they cannot follow through the editor can respond to/un-assign them

[ChristieHurrell]

Just adding a +1 to this feature request, one of our journals requested this feature today.

[librariam]

Adding a similar requested from a hosted client as well. For additional details of the use case: a reviewer declined, stating they can't make the review due date, but the editor actually has flexibility with the timelines and can accommodate the reviewer's schedule.

[nim0x]

Imo either permit reinviting or communicate that reinviting reviewers is not possible better - I keep getting requests from editors who think they are doing something wrong, when in fact it is by design.

[beitzel]

As an editor, right now I have need of changing a reviewer's decline decision to Accepted. But I see this is not (yet) possible in OJS 3 without database access (which I do not have).

[pmangahis]

+1 from a Hosted journal

[librariam]

+1 more from PKP|PS

[asmecher]

Hi all -- in recent releases reviewers can be cancelled and reinstated, but reinstating a declined review does not currently reset the review request.

I propose the following workflow:

• A reviewer accidentally declines a review.
• The reviewer contacts the editor, wishing to undo this action.
• The editor cancels the review.
• The editor reinstates the review, contacting the reviewer in the process. This resets the decline/accept decision so that reviewer can choose again.

Would this workflow be OK? (@librariam and @pmangahis in particular?)

[librariam]

@asmecher this sounds good, I just wonder in this case which email template will be used to let the reviewer choose again? Right now you can cancel and reinstate after the reviewer has already accepted and even submitted a review. Those scenarios call for different templates - unless we could use one that generic enough and just includes a direct review link?

BTW, out of curiosity I just tested in the 3.3 sandbox which template is used on reinstate and it's blank.

[asmecher]

@librariam, I'm not sure about the admin history of the sandbox, but here's the template that comes up for me:

[librariam]

• 1 more from PKP | PS

[librariam]

+1 more from PKP|PS

[diegoabadan]

We also receive this request from editors of journals we host.

[touhidurabir]

@NateWr PRs to review

pkp-lib --> #8242
ojs --> pkp/ojs#3538

I will start testing it for OMP as we have Internal Review system, so some extra modification may require for OMP .

[touhidurabir]

@Vitaliy-1 can you review the PRs

pkp-lib --> #9896
ojs --> pkp/ojs#4246 [TEST ONLY]
omp --> pkp/omp#1704 [TEST ONLY]

This is for the additional enhancement proposed at #4789 (comment)

[Vitaliy-1]

@touhidurabir, sorry for the late reply. I did a review an left a minor comment