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How to write a review How to write a review Boi Faltings Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) Outline Outline • Importance of Reviewing • Conference Reviewing • Journal Proposal Reviewing • Improving the System Peer-reviewing Peer-reviewing Few people can judge: • correctness • novelty • significance of research results. Peer review is the only evaluation mechanism Interests Interests Peers often compete, but… “The tide raises all boats” If peers produce good results field becomes more important own results become more useful everybody wins Types of Reviews Types of Reviews • Conferences: • one-shot • accept/reject • few modifications • Journals: • iteration • significant rewrites to improve quality • Research proposals: • constructive Conference Organization Conference Organization • Medium-size conference (CP): 150 submissions, 40 accepted • 6 weeks between submission and decision • PC chair cannot read all the 150 papers • Will not read 3*150 reviews either! Conference Reviewing Conference Reviewing Author has spent many hours to write the paper Reviewer is the only person actually reading it Usually, only the final score (accept/reject) is considered! Reviewing is a big responsibility How to deal with the load How to deal with the load Typical review load: 10 papers Reading and understanding 10 papers takes 10 hours of quality time Most reviewers don’t have this time Solution: apply filtering, don’t waste time on papers that are not acceptable anyway Paper checklist Paper checklist Every paper must state: • the problem addres