Is Peer-Reviewing Worth the Effort?
Computation and Language
2024-12-20 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
How effective is peer-reviewing in identifying important papers? We treat this question as a forecasting task. Can we predict which papers will be highly cited in the future based on venue and "early returns" (citations soon after publication)? We show early returns are more predictive than venue. Finally, we end with constructive suggestions to address scaling challenges: (a) too many submissions and (b) too few qualified reviewers.
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@article{arxiv.2412.14351,
title = {Is Peer-Reviewing Worth the Effort?},
author = {Kenneth Church and Raman Chandrasekar and John E. Ortega and Ibrahim Said Ahmad},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14351},
year = {2024}
}
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The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)