[Sigmetrics] PEERE Conference on Peer Review

[Cassidy R. Sugimoto]

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PEERE Conference on peer review 2018 - Call for Papers

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The First International Conference on Peer Review, organized by the  TD1306
COST Action PEERE: New Frontiers of Peer Review. March 7-9 2018, Rome,
Italy. http://www.peere.org/conference/conference-submission/.



Important dates

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January 15, 2018 (AOE): abstract and papers deadline

February 1, 2018: notifications

March 7-9, 2018: conference in Rome



Scope

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The TD1306 COST Action PEERE <http://www.peere.org/> organises an
interdisciplinary conference on peer review. The conference aims to provide
a forum for scholars, practitioners and science stakeholders to share
evidence on peer review in different fields, e.g., medicine, computer
science, social sciences and humanities. It aims to stimulate the use of
evidence-based research in the design and implementation of peer review in
a variety of fields and encourage more systematic research.

The conference welcomes any contribution (e.g., original research, position
papers, literature reviews) that uses any method (e.g., quantitative,
experimental or qualitative) to investigate peer review in a variety of
scientific domains (e.g., scholarly journals, funding agencies, research
assessment). Interdisciplinary research is especially welcome.

Main topics of interest

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The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

·        Quantitative and qualitative analysis of peer review in scholarly
journals and funding agencies

·        Estimating editorial and reviewer bias

·        The impact of different peer review models (single vs. double
blind, confidential vs. open etc.) on reviewer attitudes and editorial
decisions

·        Incentives, motivation and recognition in peer review

·        Social network analysis of peer review and editorial policy

·        Models and theories of peer review: principles, functions and
management

·        Applications of bibliometrics, altmetrics and scientometrics to
peer review

·        Perspectives from policy makers, grant funding agencies,
libraries, and publishers

·        Computer simulation studies of peer review dynamics and outcomes



Submission and publication

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All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication
elsewhere. We encourage two types of submissions: full papers, 10 to 12
pages, single column, max 8000 words or extended abstracts, 3 to 4 pages
max, single column. Submissions should include title, author(s), including
affiliations and corresponding author address, abstracts (in case of full
papers), keywords, text (including tables and figures) and references.

Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity,
relevance, and technical correctness. Each submission will be peer
-reviewed by at least two programme committee members. External reviewers
will be used in case of lack of expertise of the programme committee
members. The peer review process will follow a single-blind procedure.

To manage submissions, we use Easychair. To submit, please click on this
link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=peerewic2018.



Grants for early career researchers

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The conference organisers will financially support the participation of
several early career researchers who have their paper accepted to the
conference. Contact: info at peere.org. More info:
http://www.peere.org/conference/conference-conference-grants/.



Invited speakers

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Isabelle Boutron (University of Paris Descartes, France)

Edward Hackett (Brandeis University, USA)

Others will follow



Program committee chairs

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Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)

Francisco Grimaldo (University of Valencia, Spain)

Ana Marusic (University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia)

Mario Paolucci (CNR, Rome, Italy)



Program committee

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Petra Ahrweiler (European Academy, Ahrweiler, Germany)

Judit Bar-Ilan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Vladimir Batagelj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Elise Brezis (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Federico Bianchi (University of Brescia, Italy)

Aliaksandr Birukou (Springer-Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany)

Giangiacomo Bravo (Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden)

Niccolò Casnici (University of Brescia, Italy)

Stephen Cowley (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

Virginia Dignum (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)

Pierpaolo Dondio (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)

Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

Anuska Ferligoj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Aileen Fyfe (St. Andrews University, Scotland)

Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey, UK)

Carole J. Lee (University of Washington at Seattle, USA)

Benedetto Lepori (USI Lugano, Switzerland)

Mario Malički (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Bahar Mehmani (Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Elizabeth Moylan (BioMed Central, London, UK)

Olgica Nedic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

Simone Righi (University of Bologna, Italy)

Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Marco Seeber (Ghent University, Belgium)

Kalpana Shankar (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Jeroen Smits (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Jadranka Stojanovski (University of Zadar, Croatia)

Károly Takacs (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Didier Torny (CNRS, Paris, France)

Ludovic Trinquart (Boston University School of Public Health, USA)

Elizabeth Wager (Sideview, UK)

Lucija Wejmelka (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Michael Willis (John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, UK)

Paul Wouters (Leiden University, Netherlands)

-- 
Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto
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