[Corpora-List] reviewing quality

[Diana Maynard]

I reviewed for a conference this year (I forget which one it was) which 
published a list of "best reviewers" on their website afterwards, i.e. 
those reviewers who had put effort into constructive and meaningful 
reviews, rather than the "poor English, lack of references" type of 
review. They announced this in advance of the reviewing period so that 
people would make more effort, though I have no idea how successful it 
actually was in this respect. I think it was a nice idea though, which 
could be  propagated more widely (and better to acknowledge good 
reviewers rather than make a "hitlist" of poor reviewers).
Diana


> True, there are many people who make a real effort to be useful, but
> there is also amazingly large proportion of reviewers who do not spend
> the time it takes to read carefully a paper and to provide the feedback
> that authors deserve, feedback on which decisions are made. You'd be
> surprised about the kind of reviews I've gotten as organizer of
> conferences and workshops, and the same holds for other conferences,
> including major ones where we can see the comments made by our
> colleages. Sometimes it's really a shame.

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