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title = "Is Peer-Reviewing Worth the Effort?",
author = "Church, Kenneth Ward and
Chandrasekar, Raman and
Ortega, John E. and
Ahmad, Ibrahim Said",
editor = "Rambow, Owen and
Wanner, Leo and
Apidianaki, Marianna and
Al-Khalifa, Hend and
Eugenio, Barbara Di and
Schockaert, Steven",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
month = jan,
year = "2025",
address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.242/",
pages = "3589--3599",
abstract = "How effective is peer-reviewing in identifying important papers? We treat this question as a forecasting task. Can we predict which papers will be highly cited in the future based on venue and {\textquotedblleft}early returns{\textquotedblright} (citations soon after publication)? We show early returns are more predictive than venue. Finally, we end with a constructive suggestion to simplify reviewing."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Is Peer-Reviewing Worth the Effort?
%A Church, Kenneth Ward
%A Chandrasekar, Raman
%A Ortega, John E.
%A Ahmad, Ibrahim Said
%Y Rambow, Owen
%Y Wanner, Leo
%Y Apidianaki, Marianna
%Y Al-Khalifa, Hend
%Y Eugenio, Barbara Di
%Y Schockaert, Steven
%S Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
%D 2025
%8 January
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, UAE
%F church-etal-2025-peer
%X How effective is peer-reviewing in identifying important papers? We treat this question as a forecasting task. Can we predict which papers will be highly cited in the future based on venue and “early returns” (citations soon after publication)? We show early returns are more predictive than venue. Finally, we end with a constructive suggestion to simplify reviewing.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.242/
%P 3589-3599
Markdown (Informal)
[Is Peer-Reviewing Worth the Effort?](https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.242/) (Church et al., COLING 2025)
ACL
- Kenneth Ward Church, Raman Chandrasekar, John E. Ortega, and Ibrahim Said Ahmad. 2025. Is Peer-Reviewing Worth the Effort?. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3589–3599, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.