[Sigmet-officers] Review criteria
Stasa Milojevic
smilojev at indiana.edu
Tue Mar 22 12:34:09 EDT 2011
Dear Jonathan,
I like the criteria you've suggested. I would also prefer the reviewers
to give absolute scores rather than rank the papers they review. The
ranking can introduce bias. Namely, one reviewer may happen to get the
best 3 papers. However, since he/she will rank them, we might consider
only the first one for the award, when indeed all three would qualify.
On the other hand, another reviewer might receive the 3 papers that
would be at the bottom of the list. However, one of them will be ranked
the best, and might be considered for the award while not deserving.
Best regards,
Stasa
On 3/22/11 12:24 PM, Judit Bar-Ilan wrote:
> Dear Jonathan,
>
> The first two evaluation criteria (overall evaluation (-3 to 3) and
> reviewer confidence (0 to 4: null, low, medium, high and expert) are
> built in and cannot be changed, and I don't think that you can submit
> a review to the system without marking these - possible they have a
> default value, but I don't remember this). Of course we can ignore
> these, and add our criteria on a different scale (like ISSI2011 did,
> all the other criteria were on a scale from 1 to 5). I am not sure,
> but I think that there is a way to send the scores to the authors -
> Chaoqun can probably test this.
> The criteria you suggested seem fine to me. I'd rather give absolute
> scores than rank the papers I review.
>
> Regards,
> Judit
>
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> From: Jonathan Levitt <jonathan at levitt.net
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> Subject: [Sigmet-officers] Paper contest: review criteria
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> Dear all,
> ?
> Thanks very much Judit for letting us know that is very easy to
> set up evaluation criteria in Easy Chair and for your summary of
> the ISSI criteria. ??I have two comments regarding the ISSI
> criteria that seem relevant to our criteria:
> (a)?????? The reviewers were asked to do work that was not sent to
> those who submitted or used directly in the evaluation.
> Specifically the reviewers needed to grade Originality, Quality of
> methodology/treatment, Validity of claims and interpretation,
> Integration into prior art and Quality of writing.? These grades
> were not sent to me on my submissions and seem only indirectly
> relevant to decision as to whether to accept the paper.
> (b)????? Having three different grading scales (-3 to 3), (0 to 4)
> and (1 to 5) seems to add to the workload of the reviewer and
> seems more prone to error than using one grading scale.
> ?
> To recap, 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.?
> ?
> I suggest that reviewers provide:
> (1)????? A narrative on the quality of the writing and the
> potential for publication of the research and/or presentation at ASIST
> (2)????? A score on the quality of the writing.
> (3)????? A score on the potential for publication of the research
> and/or presentation at ASIST.
> (4)????? Possibly a score on the reviewer?s confidence.
> ?
> One possibility for (2) and (3) is for the reviewers to rank the
> papers they receive.? For example when assessing quality of the
> writing reviewers allocate 5 for the highest ranked paper, 4 for
> the second highest ranked paper, down to 2 for the fourth highest
> ranked paper.? This way the scores would already be normalised and
> we could evaluate who goes to the next round, by for each paper:
> (a) for each of criteria (2) and (3) adding the reviewer rankings,
> (b) forming an overall evaluation from the totals on criteria (2)
> and (3) (e.g., the weighted sum) and (c) selecting the four papers
> with the heist overall ranking for the second stage review.
> ?
> What do you think?
> ?
> Best regards,
> Jonathan.
>
> --- On Mon, 14/3/11, Judit Bar-Ilan <barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il
> <mailto:barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il>> wrote:
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> From: Judit Bar-Ilan <barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il
> <mailto:barilaj at mail.biu.ac.il>>
> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Paper contest: appointment of reviewers
> To: sigmet-officers at asis.org <mailto:sigmet-officers at asis.org>
> Date: Monday, 14 March, 2011, 6:30
>
>
>
> 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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