Automatic Support in the Review Process
Harald Krottmaier · 2002
One of the most complicated problems of peer-reviewed journals, regarding the quality of publications, is the right selection of referees for submitted papers. In computer science related journals referees express their interest and main research areas in terms of the ACM classification system. Interests change over time and therefore the referee has to update the “table of interest” from time to time. This paper will give an overview of the current refereeing situation in the Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) where referees are able to select papers for refereeing from a broad range of topics. In the future, we want to narrow the range of potential papers per referee. We investigate a new approach for the selection of appropriate referees assuming that referees’ recently published papers express their current main interests.