Abstract Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are
multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints from engaged …

Most researchers acknowledge an intrinsic hierarchy in the scholarly journals ('journal rank')
that they submit their work to, and adjust not only their submission but also their reading …

Peer reviewing is a central component in the scientific publishing process. We present the
first public dataset of scientific peer reviews available for research purposes (PeerRead v1) …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the causes and effects of arbitrariness in the peer
review process. This paper focuses on two main reasons for the arbitrariness in peer review …

The two major functions of a scientific publishing system are to provide access to and
evaluation of scientific papers. While open access (OA) is becoming a reality, open …

Peer review is a core element of the scientific process, particularly in conference-centered
fields such as ML and NLP. However, only few studies have evaluated its properties …

This paper examines research on peer review between 1969 and 2015 by looking at
records indexed from the Scopus database. Although it is often argued that peer review has …

Scholars and policy-makers have expressed concerns about the crediting of coauthors in
research publications. Most such problems fall into one of two categories, excluding …

This paper aims to examine the influence of authors' reputation on editorial bias in scholarly
journals. By looking at eight years of editorial decisions in four computer science journals …

Background Research and researchers are heavily evaluated, and over the past decade it
has become widely acknowledged that the consequences of evaluating the research …