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.

The following items are transferred:

Article authorship
Public comments on articles
Article notes
Editor assignments and decisions
Review assignments
Layout editor assignments
Proofreader assignments
Article email and event log entries
Reviewer access keys
Roles

The following items are not transferred:

Sessions
Subscriptions
Notification status (i.e. whether the user has signed up to receive notifications about journal news)
Editorial team memberships
Section Editor status on sections
User profile information (e.g. first name, last name, etc.)

This feature should be used with caution, as it is not reversible and involves the transfer of records from one user to another.

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