Lesson 5: Review Models

Kotahi supports a wide range of peer review models that can be customised for your journal's needs.

Options include:

• rolling submissions - authors can update submissions during an active review round if enabled (this has proven useful for some preprint review use cases)

• single-blind review - reviewers know the author's identity but their identity is hidden from the author

• double-blind review - the identities of both the author and reviewers are hidden from each other

• open review - the identities of the authors and reviewers are known to each other

• collaborative review - reviewers can discuss the submission together and collaborate on a review. This can be moderated or unmoderated.

• community self-review - the review process allows the community to self-select as reviewers without editor assignments. Often used for preprint reviews.

• multiple rounds - as many iterative rounds of review as needed with the same or new reviewers each round (typical for Journals)

In summary, Kotahi is highly configurable to support single-blind, double-blind, open, collaborative, community self-review, and combinations of these models. The system allows multiple iterative review rounds with flexible reviewer selection and updated submissions.