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To Accept or Reject: Peer Review

2018· article· en· W235954254 on OpenAlexaff
William T. Fagan

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of educational thought. · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicMeta-analysis and systematic reviews
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologyPeer evaluationSocial psychologyHigher educationPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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Peer review is an established and perhaps essential part of the pubIishing process. ln this study , 1214 review comments by 216 reviewers were analyzed to determine the nature of the reviews and to get a sense of the reviewers by developing profiles based on the nature of the comments. The reviews were categorized according to tone (complimentary, constructive, or negative); direction (specific suggestions for change versus statements of criticism); and focus (the particular aspect of the manuscript which the reviewer selected for comment). In general, the topic/content and methodology were most likely to be selected for comment, which was usually negative. Whereas authors of accepted manuscripts were often given specific suggestions for change, there was little encouragement for the authors of rejected manuscripts. Four reviewer profiles were delineated: critic, conciliator, competitor, and procrastinator. As might be expected, the reviewer profiles were interrelated with the nature of the reviewer comments. Implications for authors, editors, and reviewers are suggested.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.107
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.226
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.708
Threshold uncertainty score0.987

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.1070.226
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1790.014

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.775
GPT teacher head0.618
Teacher spread0.157 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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