[Sigmet-officers] Paper contest: appointment of reviewers

[Judit Bar-Ilan]

Dear All,

It is very easy to set up evaluation criteria in Easy Chair. Overall
evaluation (on a scale of -3 to 3) and reviewer's confidence (on a scale of
0 to 4) are built in, and so are two textboxes, one for comments to the
authors and one for comments to the other program committee members. Instead
of a filling in the textbox it is possible to upload a file with the
comments . Additional rating criteria can be added easily. For the ISSI
conference these were:
Significance of problem, Originality, Quality of methodology/treatment,
Validity of claims and interpretation, Integration into prior art, Quality
of writing and Overall assessment - all of these on a scale of 1 to 5.

Obviously for the authors the free text narrative is much more important,
but for deciding on the winner(s), scoring might be helpful, although I
often find it difficult to assign scores to the evaluation criteria.

For the paper contest we are supposed to give more detailed comments than
for the papers submitted to ISSI conference (some of my co-reviewers for
ISSI have not commented at all, or wrote 1-2 sentences), so I still think
that seriously reviewing 6 papers per reviewer is too much.

Regards,
Judit

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> Dear all,
> ?
> Thanks Judit and Stasa for offering to review and for your interesting
> feedback.?
> ?
> I suggested six reviews per reviewer, as: (a) ISSI asked me to review six
> submissions and (b) the fewer the number of papers per reviewer the less
> liable their normalised score.? I am happy for us to opt for a four peepers
> per reviewer if we have a two stage review process; in the second stage the
> most highly rated papers from the first stage are re-reviewed.?
> ?
> Judit wrote ?What is the time frame for reviewing??? According to the call
> ?Authors are invited to submit manuscripts by midnight EST on Sunday, the
> 10th April 2011, to the following website ... We expect to have provided
> feedback on the submissions by the end of April 2011 and to have selected
> the winner and runner-up soon afterwards.?
> ?
> Stasa wrote ?Is our reviewing process going to be open-ended (similar to
> Scientometrics) where one just provides a narrative, or are we going to add
> more structure (similar to JASIST) where one needs to ?grade? the paper on a
> number of criteria we collectively determined are the most important in
> addition to the narrative??? To me the review process and criteria need to
> be consistent with the call.?
> ?
> Regarding the review process, according to the call ?The contest is
> designed, not only to recognize promising student research relating to the
> SIG, but also to provide feedback from specialists in the measurement of
> information production and use. Students will receive this feedback well
> before the deadline for submissions to the ASIS&T Annual Meeting? and ?There
> will be a winner, runner-up and, depending on the quantity of strong papers,
> a number of commended papers.? ?These extracts indicate that the SIG will
> (a) provide feedback on student research and (b) select a winner and
> runner-up. ?I suggest that in order to satisfy ?(a)? the reviewers will
> provide narrative feedback and in order to satisfy ?b? they provide an
> overall score for the paper that is then normalised.? Regarding the review
> criteria, according to the call ?The reviewers will particularly reward
> well-written, original research that has potential for publication in a
>  peer-reviewed journal or for presentation at a refereed conference?; this
> indicates that the review criteria should focus on (a) the quality of the
> writing and (b) the potential for publication of the research.
> ?
> Stasa wrote ?I agree with Dietmar's suggestion that we have two reviewers
> per paper and add the third only if there are notable differences between
> the two reviewers.? ?I don?t understand how a third reviewer would help us
> satisfy the stated criteria of the call and it is likely to lengthen the
> process.? Perhaps someone will explain.
> ?
> Stasa wrote ?Who/when is going to create a template for reviewing in case
> we want to go this route??? I think we need to agree on the criteria before
> we can create a template for reviewing.? I found my reviewer template for
> ISSI on the Easuchair system; I presume SIG/MET can arrange something
> similar.? Judit, do you know how the reviewer template was arranged for
> ISSI?
> ?
> Bes regards,
> Jonathan.
>
>

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Judit Bar-Ilan
Head of Department
Department of Information Science
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
Tel: 972-3-5318351 Fax: 972-3-7384027
email: barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il
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