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Peer review history

Capture each item of peer review history (such as a reviewer's report) relating to an article in a sub-article element within the article to which the peer review relates.

article/sub-article

Capture an article-type attribute on the sub-article element. Allowed values of this attribute are:

  • author-comment
  • editor-report
  • reviewer-report

Capture a front-stub element for the sub-article's metadata, containing:

  • The DOI of the sub-article (article-id pub-id-type="doi")
  • The title of the sub-article (article-title)
  • The contributors to the sub-article (contrib-group)
  • The date of the sub-article (pub-history)
  • A reference to the PDF document containing the peer review text (self-uri)
  • Metadata value for the revision round (custom-meta-group)

Contributors

Capture contributor details as per the structure for article contributors.

The contrib-type attribute value is author for each contrib element in a peer review sub-article.

In addition, capture a specific-use attribute on the role element for each contributor. The attribute value corresponds to the element's text value as follows:

role value specific-use value
Author author
Editor editor
Reviewer reviewer

Date

Capture the date of the sub-article in a date element within an event element within the pub-history element.

Within the event element, capture a event-type attribute and a corresponding event-desc element.

event-type value event-desc value
author-comment-received Author comment received
editor-decision-sent Editor decision sent
reviewer-report-received Reviewer report received

Revision round

Capture a custom-meta element with a child meta-name element having the value peer-review-revision-round. Include a second child element meta-value containing the appropriate value for the revision round.

The allowed values are integers, starting with 0 for the first round, 1 for the second round, etc.

Example peer review material XML

<sub-article article-type="reviewer-report">
  <front-stub>
    <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1093/cercor/bhw349.001</article-id>
    <title-group>
      <article-title>Reviewer report</article-title>
    </title-group>
    <contrib-group>
      <contrib contrib-type="author">
        <name>
          <surname>Blogs</surname>
          <given-names>Joe</given-names>
        </name>
        <role specific-use="reviewer">Reviewer</role>
      </contrib>
    </contrib-group>
    <pub-history>
      <event event-type="reviewer-report-received">
        <event-desc>Reviewer report received</event-desc>
        <date iso-8601-date="2023-06-28">
          <day>28</day>
          <month>06</month>
          <year>2023</year>
        </date>
      </event>
    </pub-history>
    <self-uri xlink:href="peer-review-manuscript.pdf"/>  
    <custom-meta-group>
      <custom-meta>
        <meta-name>peer-review-revision-round</meta-name>
        <meta-value>0</meta-value>
      </custom-meta>
    </custom-meta-group>
  </front-stub>
</sub-article>
Release ID:
20250903
ID:
peer_review_history
Author:
dunnm
Last changed:
Wed, 04 Jun 2025
Modified by:
buckmasm
Revision#:
2908