Is Peer-Reviewing Worth the Effort?

Kenneth Ward Church, Raman Chandrasekar, John E. Ortega, Ibrahim Said Ahmad


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 “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.
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2025.coling-main.242
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Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3589–3599
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https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.242/
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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.
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Is Peer-Reviewing Worth the Effort? (Church et al., COLING 2025)
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