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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

    Nilanjan Datta (IAI, TCG CREST) Reviewing A Scientific Paper 6 / 16


    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..!!
    Nilanjan Datta (IAI, TCG CREST) Reviewing A Scientific Paper 10 / 16
    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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