Peer Grading the Peer Reviews: A Dual-Role Approach for Lightening the Scholarly Paper Review Process
Inès Arous, Jie Chi Yang, Mourad Khayati, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux · 2021
Scientific peer review is pivotal to maintain quality standards for academic publication. The effectiveness of the reviewing process is currently being challenged by the rapid increase of paper submissions in various conferences. Those venues need to recruit a large number of reviewers of different levels of expertise and background. The submitted reviews often do not meet the conformity standards of the conferences. Such a situation poses an ever-bigger burden on the meta-reviewers when trying to reach a final decision.