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Volunteer to review is a feature on Reviewer Hub to help reviewers provide their preference and intent to review to editors of Elsevier journals. To volunteer to review for a journal the reviewers log in to Reviewer Hub, find the journal they are interested to review by using Search or by filtering on subject areas and select the “Review for this journal” button to register their interest.

Any reviewer who has not reviewed for your journal before and has published at the least one article across any journal indexed in Scopus can volunteer for your journal. To ensure that a researcher has published an article we mandate all reviewers who are keen to review for a journal to claim their Scopus profile on Reviewer Hub.

The data on Interested Reviewers tab comes from three sources – reviewer’s Scopus Profile, reviewer’s supplied information on Reviewer Hub and reviewer history on Reviewer Hub.

As a part of expressing their interest to review we ask the reviewers to indicate from a drop down list, a reason (mandatory) for why they want to volunteer for your journal and also provide them an opportunity to put in a personalised message (optional) for the editor.

Every journal on Reviewer Hub has a unique link that can be shared across any medium e.g. WeChat, Twitter, Website, Journal Home Pages and when selected by a potential reviewer will take them directly to their journal on Reviewer Hub. The format is as mentioned below i.e. Reviewer Hub link followed by journal ISSN.

Format of the unique link: https://reviewerhub.elsevier.com/volunteer?issn=XXXX-XXXX

You can also redirect any reviewers who reach out to you to express their interest to review in Reviewer Hub.

For each Interested Reviewer we provide you with a number of data points to help you assess whether a reviewer is a right expert to review for your manuscript.

1. On the left summary panel

   • If your journal has classifications, you can use the filter on journal classification to narrow down your candidate
   • Every candidate will have h-index, total number of publications, current reviews in progress across other Elsevier journals, affiliation and country of affiliation
2. On the right detail panel

   • Candidate Information: All the information supplied by the candidate when they volunteered

     • Email id
     • Author identifiers – Scopus, ORCID, Web of Science
     • Date of sign up to be an Interested Reviewer
     • Personalised URLs
     • Reason to review and optional personalised message for editor
   • Expertise a list of keywords from the journal that match with the candidate's publication history.
   • Publication history

     Number of publications and snapshot of most recent publications based on Scopus data.

   • Reviewer history Number of in progress and completed reviews , both for this journal and across all other Elsevier journals that use EM.

     Please note: The Reviewer History only includes the reviewer’s peer review history and current peer review activity with Elsevier Journals.

You should be able to see the total number of interested reviewers for your journal at the top

You can narrow down the interested reviewers to get to your candidate in a number of ways

• Visual inspection on the pool based on h-index and total publications
• Filter on journal classification (where applicable)
• Sort by date the reviewer expressed their interest

The Interested Reviewer tab works exactly like the other tabs on Find Reviewers e.g. “System Recommendations” and “Search on Scopus”. To add a reviewer to Editorial Manager simply select the “Add to manuscript” button and then select “Return to Submission” at the top of the page.

Currently the entire pool of Interested Reviewers is available on Find Reviewers, and can be filtered by invitation status . These include individuals invited by any editor across your journal or those who have not been invited. We encourage editors to invite interested reviewers who have not been previously invited; however, in case you don’t have a relevant match you can always invite a reviewer who has been previously invited by the journal.

Interested Reviewers pool is an engaged and willing pool of reviewers. From our pilots we have seen once an Interested Reviewer is invited, they almost always respond back and in most cases with an acceptance. To respect reviewers time and not to over invite reviewers we show a pop-up to encourage editors to only invite additional reviewers if needed.

Also, we want to re-iterate that Interested Reviewers is a pool of reviewers and editors should carefully vet the expertise of reviewer before sending across an invite.

As the Interested Reviewer workflow end-to-end is a new one and we are slowly scaling this across all journals we have a Beta flag on it. We will take the Beta tag out once we reach a mature state with the tool.