Peer-review software built for academic conferences
Save time and streamline your peer review process with intelligent, intuitive software that your reviewers will enjoy, fully integrated with your conference workflow.
Take the complexity out of peer review management
Adapt it to your context
Make no compromise with highly customizable forms, single/double-blind options, data visibility settings and revision flows.
Automate your workflow
Avoid tedious manipulations with intelligent reviewer assignments, streamlined feedback sharing and built-in program builder.
Meet your deadlines
Stay on schedule with real-time tracking of the review progress, the ability to make adjustments along the way and email reminders.
Flexible evaluation workflows
Use customizable scoring forms with qualitative and quantitative questions, ensuring data driven decisions.
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Smart reviewer assignment
Automatically or manually distribute submissions based on custom criteria and ensure fair distribution.
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Structured feedback & decision management
Aggregate scores, filter by presentation type, and easily finalize decisions while maintaining transparency for authors.
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Something for everyone
Total control, zero chaos
Assign, track, and manage peer reviews effortlessly, all in one place.
- Create custom criteria and scoring
- Automatically or manually assign submissions
- Track real-time reviewer progress and send reminders
- Easily manage the author revision process
Effortless reviewing
Access assigned submissions, provide feedback, and track deadlines seamlessly.
- Access your assigned submissions easily
- See the submission and the reviewing form side-by-side
- Provide feedback easily with clear structured forms
- Track your progress and deadlines
Seamless decision-making
Access review outcomes, finalize decisions, and build sessions effortlessly.
- View consolidated reviewer feedback in a single dashboard
- Accept or reject submissions based on clear scoring
- Send acceptance or rejection notifications
- Oversee the final program and group accepted work into sessions
Transparent & efficient feedback
Easily submit, track, and receive structured feedback on your work.
- Submit work in multiple formats (Text, Word, PDF, PPT, etc.)
- Track submission status in real time
- Receive structured, actionable reviewer feedback
Powerful features, simple execution
Discover key features that enhance your peer review workflows, ensuring a structured and seamless process for everyone.
Customizable forms
Tailor your reviewing forms to your needs with qualitative and quantitative fields.
Blind review options
Reduce bias and ensure anonymity with single- or double-blind settings.
Automated assignments
Batch assign reviewers to submissions based on custom constraints.
Communicate decisions
Contact authors to ask for revisions or notify them of acceptance and next steps.
Collaborative feedback
Decide which reviewer feedback authors can see, if any.
Easy revisions
Share files with tracked changes from reviewers to authors automatically.
Unlimited reviewers
Scale seamlessly with no reviewer limits, making it easy to accommodate more team members.
Track-specific committee
Allocate specific tracks to committee members so they focus on content within their area of expertise.
Easy data export & insights
Download reviews, scores, and decisions in multiple formats.
Build your program
Create sessions and build your program with the top scored submissions.
Export your proceedings
Export accepted abstracts in a Word document including images and submission information.
Generic platforms don't get it. We do.
Unlike generic event software, we know what academic events need and we've built-it to save you the extra work.
Smarter assignments
Prevent conflicts and manual work with automated reviewer assignments and specialized committees by track.
Specialized to academics
Built specifically for research-focused events, you won't need to make dreadful compromises.
All-in-one conference software
Streamline your whole conference management with integrated registration, conference program and website.
Transform your peer review process
Without Fourwaves
- Workdays lost due to manual assignements
- Inconsistent feedback due to unstructured reviews
- Frustrated reviewers
- Wasted time running after spreadsheets
- Missed deadlines that delay your planning
- Non-registered speakers impossible to find
With Fourwaves
- A smart and automated reviewer assignment engine
- Standardized, structured feedback for clarity
- Happy reviewers
- Centralized data, always up to date
- Deadlines met, stress reduced
- Every speaker is registered and easy to track
Trusted by leading institutions worldwide
Top organizations rely on Fourwaves to deliver exceptional events with ease.
Facility Manager, Centre for Advanced Light Microscopy (CALM), McMaster University
USASP
Virginia Tech
Office of Research, University of Florida College of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Outreach and Strategic Partnerships in Asia, AAAS
Tulane University
McGill
University of Queensland
Frequently asked questions
You can add any required questions and specify exactly what reviewers should consider for each one.
You can include scoring questions (out of 5, 10, or any scale you prefer) to establish a grade, file uploads (e.g., a Word document annotated by the reviewer), free-text comments for the program chair, multiple-choice options, and much more.
You can hide submitters’ and authors’ identifying details from reviewers, and also hide reviewers’ names from authors if you choose to share the results with them.
Our intelligent algorithm assigns reviewers based on the target number of reviews and the topics covered, while preventing conflicts of interest to ensure a balanced process.
You can manually adjust assignments when needed.
Yes! Your submissions are grouped by the committee’s decision, and you can easily contact authors to inform them of the status and provide details on the next steps.
You decide! Choose which parts of the review form are visible to authors and when they are shared. Authors can access them directly from their dashboard.
Yes, you can export all files into clearly labeled folders and generate a uniform Word document containing all information from accepted submissions, allowing you to create a structured abstract booklet by session, presentation type, or other criteria, for the conference or for publication purposes.
Fourwaves combines abstract management, peer review, registrations and your event website in one platform. See how it stacks up in our detailed comparisons: Fourwaves vs EasyChair, Fourwaves vs Ex Ordo and the best Oxford Abstracts alternative.
