[Submission Pool] [Plagiarism checks] Simplify selection of plagiarism check results
After passing admissibility, an incoming submission goes through an internal plagiarism assessment and an iThenticate assessment. For each of these, Editorial Administration needs to expand the assessment's box, click Start assessment, open a drop-down menu, select the assessment result (called "status"), click on the Submit button and accept a pop-up confirmation. This then saves each assessment status (which can still be modified), before the complete form can be actually submitted, with yet another confirmation pop-up.
Proposal: Simplify this process by removing the "Start assessment" buttons and the first two confirmation pop-ups (keeping the confirmation pop-up when submitting the completed form). The drop-down menus can also be replaced by a list of selectable items. It should be possible to un-select the items to keep the form empty if necessary (e.g., discussing an appropriate result in a difficult case). This list can be in a box for each assessment, but there is no need for that box to be collapsible (which also would save a couple of clicks). Once all lists are complete, a single Submit button can be required and a single confirmation pop-up accepted.