# Ethics Review Stage

#### What it Does 

The Ethics Review stage is available to any venue that selected "Yes, our venue has Ethics Chairs and Reviewers" on their venue request form. Running the Ethics Review stage will create Paper#/Ethics\_Reviewers groups and Ethics Review Form invitations for each flagged paper. 

#### When to Use It 

The Ethics Review Stage can be run at any time after the Submission Deadline for Double Blind conferences and any time after Post Submission Stage is run for Single Blind conferences. It can be run multiple times with different paper selections; if you run it again, excluding a paper that was originally flagged, that paper will be removed unless it already has an ethics reviewer assigned to it. The flagged papers list must always contain all of the papers that should be flagged for ethics review. 

<details>

<summary>Ethics Review Start Date</summary>

* When ethics reviewers can start writing their reviews, in GMT
* Optional&#x20;
* Defaults to now

</details>

<details>

<summary>Ethics Review Deadline </summary>

* When the ethics review invitations expire, in GMT
* Required

</details>

<details>

<summary>Make Ethics Reviews Public</summary>

* Whether the ethics reviews should be made immediately public. Only available if submissions are public.&#x20;
* Required&#x20;

</details>

<details>

<summary>Release Ethics Reviews to Authors</summary>

* Whether the ethics reviews should be made immediately available to the authors.&#x20;
* Required

</details>

<details>

<summary>Release Ethics Reviews to Reviewers </summary>

* Which reviewers and ethics chairs the reviews should be immediately released to&#x20;
* Required&#x20;

</details>

<details>

<summary>Ethics Review Submissions</summary>

* A comma-separated list of the paper numbers of submissions requiring ethics review.&#x20;
* Required&#x20;

</details>

<details>

<summary>Additional Ethics Review Form Options</summary>

* Additional options that will be added to the default Ethics Review Form. Expects valid JSON surrounded by a single pair of curly braces {}. Read more about the accepted field types [here](/getting-started/frequently-asked-questions/what-field-types-are-supported-in-the-forms.md).
* Optional&#x20;
* Defaults to the default [Ethics Review Form](/reference/default-forms/default-ethics-review-form.md)

</details>

<details>

<summary>Remove Ethics Review Form Options </summary>

* Removes fields from the Review form. Expects a comma separated list of field names in lowercase.
* Optional&#x20;
* Defaults to default [Ethics Review Form](/reference/default-forms/default-ethics-review-form.md).

</details>


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.openreview.net/reference/stages/ethics-review-stage.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.