This paper looks at peer review as a cooperation dilemma through a game-theory
framework. We built an agent-based model to estimate how much the quality of peer review …

The COVID-19 pandemic and its resultant lockdowns have interrupted the way scientists live
and work. This nevertheless caused an unforeseen impact of COVID-19: the pandemic …

This paper looks at 10 years of reviews in a multidisciplinary journal, The Journal of Artificial
Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), which is the flagship journal of social simulation …

Editors of scientific journals meet increasing challenges to find peer reviewers. Rewarding
reviewers has been proposed as a solution to incentives peer review, and journals have …

The purpose of this paper is to develop an influence-effect model as a construct for
determining information asymmetry influencing factors between suppliers and buyers, a …

Reviewers with a present bias focus on the here and now, placing more importance on
immediate rewards than on future intentions and benefits. In this paper, we are going to …

This paper provides a formal study on manuscript quality control in peer review. Within this
analysis, a biased editor is defined operationally as an editor that exerts a higher (lower) …

Adverse selection occurs when a firm signs a contract with a potential worker but his/her key
skills are still not known at that time, which leads the employer to make a wrong decision. In …

Here, we develop a theory of the relationship between the reviewer's effort and bias in peer
review. From this theory, it follows that journal editors might employ biased reviewers …

The utilization of accolade awards to motivate reviewers is widespread, but their
effectiveness remains uncertain. We aim to explore how receiving an accolade award affects …