[Corpora-List] reviewing quality
Michael Zock
Michael.Zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr
Mon Oct 3 10:55:39 UTC 2011
Hi Diana,
splendid idea!!! Thanks for sharing it.
All the best
Michael
> 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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