There are many benefits of participating in CCR as a reviewer. As a PPJ reviewer, you will:

• Dramatically shape the scholarship—more than you would with traditional review.
• Receive guidance on how to give helpful, generous reviews.
• Be able to request a Letter of Confirmation from the editors about your service as a reviewer.
• Have the opportunity for a “mini-publication” by submitting a Public Holistic Response that will be considered for publication alongside the piece under review.
• Meet new colleagues through your Review Team!

The relative amount of work depends on how you conduct your other reviews and how you engage in your Collaborative Community Review experiences. You are only required to give in-line comments and a Private Holistic Response that summarizes your suggestions for the composer. This makes one round of CCR usually less work than other forms of review.

However, you might find CCR to be more work as you are asked to continue engaging in this form of feedback for each round of revisions until the editors decide whether or not the piece is accepted by the journal or the composer withdraws the piece. To recognize this depth of commitment, we offer Letters of Confirmation for composers and reviewers to use in job applications and reviews. Please contact the editorial team to request such a letter.

No. Remaining identifiable is necessary for the mission of the PPJ.

Please follow instructions from your Review Coordinator (RC). In general, the process is as follows:

1. Access the article under review in Google Documents.
2. Read the pop-up reviewer instructions carefully.
3. Review the author’s notes about what stage of development the piece is in, what kind of feedback they would like, and their Community Ethics statement.
4. Complete your review by leaving in-line comments keyed to our four style criteria. You may also include a Private Holistic Response at the bottom of the review page, or you can wait to provide this response until the author has made revisions. You may leave and come back to finish your review later.

You are encouraged to correspond with the author, other reviewers, and RC directly throughout all rounds of CCR. You may correspond via email or within the document under review. You can even ask your RC to set up a video call with the review team to further your discussion of the piece.

The first page in the Google Document used for the review should include a table that presents the author(s)’ responses to our feedback prompts. Please contact your Review Coordinator if the responses are not there or are inaccessible.

The first page in the Google Document used for the review should include a table that presents the composer’s responses to our feedback prompts. Please contact your Review Coordinator if the responses are not there or are inaccessible.

There are three open-ended text fields at the bottom of the review document. The Private Holistic Response field and the Comments Forum are only accessed by the Review Team. The Public Holistic Response will become public later, but only after your Review Coordinator communicates with you about it.

Yes, to both questions. You may submit a new or edited version of your Public Holistic Response to your Review Coordinator by email until first proofs of the original piece have been created. The Review Coordinator will make sure the production team gets your file.