Getting started with JudgeWise

Go to the sign-up page, enter your email and a password, and type the invite code you were given. Spacing and capitalization don't matter — “POMS 2027”, “poms2027”, and “POMS2027” all work.

Tip: No code yet? Request one and we'll email it to you.

Give your competition a name — a best-paper award, a grant panel, a design competition, anything expert-judged. You land on its dashboard, which tracks submissions, experts, assignments, and review progress in one place.

Define your weighted scoring criteria, how many experts should see each submission, the review deadline, and how many finalists to pick. You can also tune the matching weights and add your own field-specific taxonomy.

Import a whole folder or spreadsheet of submissions, or add them one at a time. Fields are filled in automatically, and a blind-review check flags any file that accidentally reveals author identity before reviewing starts.

Import your reviewer list or add people by hand — JudgeWise can fill in each person's topic areas from the web. You'll see who has accepted, reviewed, and confirmed at a glance.

Run the COI scan to check every expert against every submission and auto-exclude conflicts — their own submissions, shared institutions, and recent co-authors — so no one is assigned work they shouldn't see. Add manual conflicts too.

Send branded “will you serve?” invitations in a click. Experts accept or decline with one click and their status updates automatically. Every email is yours to edit from your own templates.

One click proposes the best assignments by subject-area overlap, while respecting each expert's load limit and excluding the conflicts you flagged. Review and tweak per submission before sending.

Email each expert their assigned submissions and a one-click login, then nudge anyone running late with reminders. Re-sending never changes an expert's existing login.

Experts score submissions on your weighted rubric. The review summary lines up every score side by side so nothing slips through and you can see where reviews are still outstanding.

Weighted results rank the whole field automatically and surface borderline cases for a closer look. When you're ready, notify finalists and participants in a click.