Peer review is essential for advancing scientific research, but there are long‐standing
concerns that authors' prestige or other characteristics can bias reviewers. Double‐blind …

Modern machine learning and computer science conferences are experiencing a surge in
the number of submissions that challenges the quality of peer review as the number of …

The open access movement has gained momentum since the Budapest Open Access
Initiative (BOAI) first launched twenty years ago. Notably, there has been a drastic increase …

The growing number of preprints allows reviewers to identify the authors' identities prior to
the peer review process. Yet, it remains unclear whether the preprint exposure of prestigious …

Research expands the boundaries of a subject, economy, and civilization. Peer review is at
the heart of research and is understandably an expensive process. This work, with human-in …

Background: We consider a research model for manuscript evaluation using a two-stage
process. In the first stage, the current submission reminds reviewers of previous reviewing …

At the peer review stage, a natural metric to measure the performance of the author is the
quality of the revised manuscript, while a natural metric to measure the performance of the …

Authors often ask how long the peer review process takes. Peer review duration has
attracted much attention in academia in recent years. Existing research focuses primarily on …

Abstract Evaluation of research uses peer review and bibliometrics, and the debate about
their balance in research evaluation continues. Both approaches have supporters, and both …

In this paper, we introduce the concepts of sensitivity and specificity to mathematically
describe the accuracy of the peer review process. Sensitivity refers to the probability that the …