AgentReview: Exploring Peer Review Dynamics with LLM Agents

Yiqiao Jin, Qinlin Zhao, Yiyang Wang, Hao Chen, Kaijie Zhu, Yijia Xiao, Jindong Wang


Abstract
Peer review is fundamental to the integrity and advancement of scientific publication. Traditional methods of peer review analyses often rely on exploration and statistics of existing peer review data, which do not adequately address the multivariate nature of the process, account for the latent variables, and are further constrained by privacy concerns due to the sensitive nature of the data. We introduce AgentReview, the first large language model (LLM) based peer review simulation framework, which effectively disentangles the impacts of multiple latent factors and addresses the privacy issue. Our study reveals significant insights, including a notable 37.1% variation in paper decisions due to reviewers’ biases, supported by sociological theories such as the social influence theory, altruism fatigue, and authority bias. We believe that this study could offer valuable insights to improve the design of peer review mechanisms.
Anthology ID:
2024.emnlp-main.70
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
Year:
2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
Editors:
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1208–1226
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.70
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.70
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Yiqiao Jin, Qinlin Zhao, Yiyang Wang, Hao Chen, Kaijie Zhu, Yijia Xiao, and Jindong Wang. 2024. AgentReview: Exploring Peer Review Dynamics with LLM Agents. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1208–1226, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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AgentReview: Exploring Peer Review Dynamics with LLM Agents (Jin et al., EMNLP 2024)
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