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Scientific publishing seems to be at a turning point. Its paradigm has stayed basically the same for 300 years but is now challenged by the increasing volume of articles that makes it very hard for scientists to stay up to date in their…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Cristina-Iulia Bucur , Tobias Kuhn , Davide Ceolin

Peer review is a key activity intended to preserve the quality and integrity of scientific publications. However, in practice it is far from perfect. We aim at understanding how reviewers, including those who have won awards for reviewing,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Neil A. Ernst , Jeffrey C. Carver , Daniel Mendez , Marco Torchiano

Peer review is the cornerstone of scientific publishing, yet it suffers from inconsistencies, reviewer subjectivity, and scalability challenges. We introduce ReviewerToo, a modular framework for studying and deploying AI-assisted peer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Gaurav Sahu , Hugo Larochelle , Laurent Charlin , Christopher Pal

Scientific publishing heavily relies on the assessment of quality of submitted manuscripts by peer reviewers. Assigning a set of matching reviewers to a submission is a highly complex task which can be performed only by domain experts. We…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Christin Katharina Kreutz , Ralf Schenkel

Peer review in academic research aims not only to ensure factual correctness but also to identify work of high scientific potential that can shape future research directions. This task is especially critical in fast-moving fields such as…

Applications · Statistics 2025-11-26 Buxin Su , Natalie Collina , Garrett Wen , Didong Li , Kyunghyun Cho , Jianqing Fan , Bingxin Zhao , Weijie Su

Assigning papers to reviewers is a central challenge in the peer-review process of large academic conferences. Program chairs must balance competing objectives, including maximizing reviewer expertise, promoting diversity, and enhancing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Michael Cui , Chenxin Dai , Yixuan Even Xu , Fei Fang

Information exposing, in conjunction with technological innovations and the emergence of social media, altered the traditional roles of academic libraries and enabled librarians to become necessary partners in research. The role of academic…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Peter Kokol , Jernej Završnik , Marko Turčin , Helena Blažun Vošner

Optimized reviewer assignment can effectively utilize limited intellectual resources and significantly assure review quality in various scenarios such as paper selection in conference or journal, proposal selection in funding agencies and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Yanqing Wang , Yu Jiang , Xiaolei Wang , Siyu Zhang , Yaowen Liang

We consider the problem of automated assignment of papers to reviewers in conference peer review, with a focus on fairness and statistical accuracy. Our fairness objective is to maximize the review quality of the most disadvantaged paper,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-18 Ivan Stelmakh , Nihar B. Shah , Aarti Singh

Peer grading has emerged as a scalable solution for assessment in large and online classrooms, offering both logistical efficiency and pedagogical value. However, designing effective peer-grading systems remains challenging due to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Uchswas Paul , Ananya Mantravadi , Jash Shah , Shail Shah , Sri Vaishnavi Mylavarapu , M Parvez Rashid , Edward Gehringer

Peer review assignment algorithms aim to match research papers to suitable expert reviewers, working to maximize the quality of the resulting reviews. A key challenge in designing effective assignment policies is evaluating how changes to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Martin Saveski , Steven Jecmen , Nihar B. Shah , Johan Ugander

With the rapid increase in paper submissions to academic conferences, the need for automated and accurate paper-reviewer matching is more critical than ever. Previous efforts in this area have considered various factors to assess the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yu Zhang , Yanzhen Shen , SeongKu Kang , Xiusi Chen , Bowen Jin , Jiawei Han

The importance of peer-review in the scientific process can not be overestimated. Yet, due to increasing pressures of research and exponentially growing number of publications the task faced by the referees becomes ever more difficult. We…

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Conference paper assignment, i.e., the task of assigning paper submissions to reviewers, presents multi-faceted issues for recommender systems research. Besides the traditional goal of predicting `who likes what?', a conference management…

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In peer review, reviewers are usually asked to provide scores for the papers. The scores are then used by Area Chairs or Program Chairs in various ways in the decision-making process. The scores are usually elicited in a quantized form to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Yusha Liu , Yichong Xu , Nihar B. Shah , Aarti Singh

Scholarly journals rely on peer review to identify the science most worthy of publication. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even threatening the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-03 Carl T. Bergstrom , Kevin Gross

The number of scientific articles produced every year is growing rapidly. Providing quality control over them is crucial for scientists and, ultimately, for the public good. In modern science, this process is largely delegated to peer…

The peer review process in major artificial intelligence (AI) conferences faces unprecedented challenges with the surge of paper submissions (exceeding 10,000 submissions per venue), accompanied by growing concerns over review quality and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Jaeho Kim , Yunseok Lee , Seulki Lee

Peer reviewing is a central component in the scientific publishing process. We present the first public dataset of scientific peer reviews available for research purposes (PeerRead v1) providing an opportunity to study this important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Dongyeop Kang , Waleed Ammar , Bhavana Dalvi , Madeleine van Zuylen , Sebastian Kohlmeier , Eduard Hovy , Roy Schwartz

Peer Assessment is a task of analysis and commenting on student's writing by peers, is core of all educational components both in campus and in MOOC's. However, with the sheer scale of MOOC's & its inherent personalised open ended learning,…

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