Premium
Peer choice – does reviewer self‐selection work?
Author(s) -
Hartley James,
Cowan John,
Rushby Nick
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1010
Subject(s) - selection (genetic algorithm) , computer science , work (physics) , peer review , information retrieval , data science , operations research , psychology , political science , artificial intelligence , engineering , law , mechanical engineering
The British Journal of Educational Technology ( BJET ) uses a novel system for obtaining referees by e‐mailing the abstracts of submissions to a panel of over 250 referees and allowing these individuals to choose which papers they would like to review. An analysis of 13 experienced referees showed that, of 473 reviews assessed, these referees were slightly more lenient than the editor and that electronic records provide useful data that can be mined in interesting ways.