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Reviewing A Scientific Paper: Nilanjan Datta

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Reviewing A Scientific Paper

Nilanjan Datta

Institute for Advancing Intelligence

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Tasks of A Reviewer

Tasks of A Reviewer

Get a review request from an editor or a member of some technical program committee.

Accept or decline the request.

Prepare a review report.

Interact with the editor regarding the review.

Go through further rounds of review.

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Tasks of A Reviewer

Accepting A Review Request

Reviewing papers gives you an insider look into the publication process.

Make sure that you will be able to review the paper.

Reviewing is a voluntary task (some journals pay reviewers).

Agreeing to review papers make you part of the community.

Declining review requests without a good reason shows your disinclination to be part of
the community.

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Responsibilities of A Reviewer

Responsibilities of A Reviewer

Fairness

Meeting the Review Deadline

General Ethics

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Responsibilities of A Reviewer

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Responsibilities of A Reviewer

Provide a fair unbiased review.

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Responsibilities of A Reviewer

Fairness

There should not be any Conflict of Interest.

However, bias may still exist:

Positive bias: a current co-worker.


Negative bias: a competitor.

You should remain fair.

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Responsibilities of A Reviewer

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Responsibilities of A Reviewer

Meet the review deadline.

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Responsibilities of A Reviewer

Responsibility of A Reviewer

Meeting the review deadline:

For conferences, review deadlines are sharp.

For journals, you should try to meet the deadline.

Remember, your paper may also be similarly held up.

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Responsibilities of A Reviewer

Responsibility of A Reviewer

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Responsibilities of A Reviewer

Responsibility of A Reviewer

Ethics: Do not use the results of a paper under review in your own work..!!
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Responsibilities of A Reviewer

The Actual Task of Reviewing

Understand the main contribution of the paper (may skip some details).

Form a judgement on the significance and novelty of the main contribution.

Verify the details (correctness, completeness):

Conference: time restrictions; may not be possible to verify all.


Journal: must be done.

Mark typos and editorial mistakes.

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Review Report

Review Report

Summary of the paper

This should capture your view of the work.


The editor may not look beyond the summary.

Recommendation

Crucial but not absolute.


Should be corroborated with later comments.
Also, the editor will contrast with comments from other reviewers.

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Review Report

Review Report

Detailed comments to the authors


Give concrete justification for your recommendation.

In case you did not understand some part, then clearly mention this.

Try to suggest how the author(s) may revise the relevant part.

Provide relevant technical comments.

Possible references that you think is appropriate for the work.

List of typos and editorial issues that you found.

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Review Report

Review Report

Comments to the editor:

Use sparingly, if at all.

You may use this to provide comments that can disclose your identity to the author.

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References

References

P. Sarkar, A Course on Research Methodology, 2011.


https://www.isical.ac.in/~palash/research-methodology.html

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Thank You

Thank You..!!!

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