Editor Description Field

Publications may want to define a finer stratification of Editor Roles, for example, designating one person as Editor (Europe) and another as Editor (North America), without having to set up separate roles with the same permissions.

The Editor Description field appears as an editable text field (with a limit of 256 characters) on the Search People – Update Information page for any user assigned to an Editor role.

Once a description is added to an Editor's record, it appears on the following pages, where individual Editor names are displayed:

People Information Page
Manuscript Details page
Request Editor page (only if the publication has selected a PolicyManager setting that includes the description in Set Request or Assign Editor Display Options)

An Editor Description column appears in the grids displayed on the Assign Editor page and the Add Participants to Discussion.

Editor description is also included in the following Editor Reports:

Required Reviews Complete Report selection criteria page
Editor To-Do List selection criteria page
Editor Performance Report results page
Current Role Designation Report

The description also appears in these Custom Report views:

Authors and Submissions
Editors and Submissions
People and Address
People and Classifications
Reviewers and Submissions

This Editor description may be used in the Request Editor submission step. For details, see Configure "Request Editor" Option.