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An experimental test of the effects of redacting grant applicant identifiers on peer review outcomes
eLife, 2021 Background: Blinding reviewers to applicant identity has been proposed to reduce bias in peer review. Methods: This experimental test used 1200 NIH grant applications, 400 from Black investigators, 400 matched applications from White investigators, and ...
Richard K Nakamura +8 more
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Auctions and Peer Prediction for Academic Peer Review [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Peer reviewed publications are considered the gold standard in certifying and disseminating ideas that a research community considers valuable. However, we identify two major drawbacks of the current system: (1) the overwhelming demand for reviewers due to a large volume of submissions, and (2) the lack of incentives for reviewers to participate and ...
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Listening to Users' Voice: Automatic Summarization of Helpful App Reviews [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 App reviews are crowdsourcing knowledge of user experience with the apps, providing valuable information for app release planning, such as major bugs to fix and important features to add. There exist prior explorations on app review mining for release planning, however, most of the studies strongly rely on pre-defined classes or manually-annotated ...
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Detecting Singleton Review Spammers Using Semantic Similarity [PDF]
WWW '15 Companion Proceedings of the 24th International Conference
on World Wide Web, 2015, p.971-976, 2016 Online reviews have increasingly become a very important resource for consumers when making purchases. Though it is becoming more and more difficult for people to make well-informed buying decisions without being deceived by fake reviews. Prior works on the opinion spam problem mostly considered classifying fake reviews using behavioral user patterns ...
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background To evaluate the effectiveness of root cause analysis (RCA) recommendations and propose possible ways to enhance its quality in Hong Kong public hospitals.
Yick Ting A Kwok +2 more
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On the Role of Reviewer Expertise in Temporal Review Helpfulness Prediction [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Helpful reviews have been essential for the success of e-commerce services, as they help customers make quick purchase decisions and benefit the merchants in their sales. While many reviews are informative, others provide little value and may contain spam, excessive appraisal, or unexpected biases.
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Does double-blind peer-review reduce bias? Evidence from a top computer science conference [PDF]
, 2021 Peer review is widely regarded as essential for advancing scientific research. However, reviewers may be biased by authors' prestige or other characteristics. Double-blind peer review, in which the authors' identities are masked from the reviewers, has been proposed as a way to reduce reviewer bias. Although intuitive, evidence for the effectiveness of
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, 2004 Magnetization and ac-susceptibility measurements are used to characterize the mixed phase of the high-temperature cuprate superconductor La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_{4}$ over a large range of doping (0.075 $\leq x\leq$ 0.20).
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