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Completely agree. I've been into computer science research for few years and not knowing who accepted the papers and which were the reviews always bugged me. I
by tigroferoce 13y ago
Completely agree. I've been into computer science research for few years and not knowing who accepted the papers and which were the reviews always bugged me.
I've always advocated that the reviews behind an accepted paper SHOULD all be public and publicly distributed along with the paper.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoThis is definitely a benefit to the readers, and potentially (though not definitely) to the community as a whole. However, it's much worse for the reviewers. I hear so much about how researchers provide papers to journals for free, and review papers for journals for free, and then the journals (are presumably evil to) charge high fees to anyone who wants to read the papers. How much can we pile on the reviewers before they stop doing it?
- tigroferoce 13y agoGood point. But it is a key point that making reviews is part of your job as researched and you MUST take it very seriously. I received so many reviews poorly written, just few lines saying "OK for me". I really think that this way of reviewing is wrong. Reviewers should take care in their job and they should be ready to face a public discussion on why they decided to accept a paper. Note that IMHO is OK to be anonymous while refusing a paper because otherwise a reviewer may be put under lot of pressure.