Merge Users

<p>The Merge Users feature, available from Journal Management under the Users heading, allows the Journal Manager to merge two user accounts into a single account, transferring edit assignments, submissions, and numerous other records from one account to the other and effectively deleting the first.</p> <p>The following items are transferred: <ul> <li>Article authorship</li> <li>Public comments on articles</li> <li>Article notes</li> <li>Editor assignments and decisions</li> <li>Review assignments</li> <li>Layout editor assignments</li> <li>Proofreader assignments</li> <li>Article email and event log entries</li> <li>Reviewer access keys</li> </ul> The following items are <strong>not</strong> transferred: <ul> <li>Sessions</li> <li>Subscriptions</li> <li>Notification status (i.e. whether the user has signed up to receive notifications about journal news)</li> <li>Editorial team memberships</li> <li>Section Editor status on sections</li> <li>Roles</li> <li>User profile information (e.g. first name, last name, etc.)</li> </ul> </p> <p>This feature should be used with caution, as it is not reversible and involves the transfer of records from one user to another.</p>