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Title: |
Do Editors Have A Silver Bullet? An Agent-Based Model Of Peer Review |
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Authors: |
Juan Bautista Cabota, Francisco Grimaldo, Flaminio Squazzoni |
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(2014).ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited
by: Flaminio Squazzoni,
Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti,
Marco Castellani European Council for
Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-8-1 28th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Brescia,
Italy, May 27th – 30th,
2014 |
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Juan
Bautista Cabota, Francisco Grimaldo,
Flaminio Squazzoni (2014). Do Editors Have A Silver Bullet? An
Agent-Based Model Of Peer Review, ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti,
Marco Castellani European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014-0725 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2014-0725 |
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Abstract: |
This paper presents an agent-based
model of peer review that looks at the effect of different editorial policies
of referee selection. We tested four author/referee matching scenarios as
follows: random selection of referees, selection of referees with a similar
status to submission authors, selection of higher-skilled
and lower skilled referees. We tested these scenarios against three types of
referee behaviour, i.e., fair, unreliable and
strategic and measured their implications for the quality and efficiency of
the process. Results show that in case of randomness of referee judgment, any
editorial policy is detrimental for peer review. If referees behave
strategically, certain matching policies, such as selecting referees of good quality,
might counteract possible bias. |
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