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Paper bricks: an alternative to complete-story peer reviewing

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The peer review system as used in several computer science communities has several flaws including long review times, overloaded reviewers, as well as fostering of niche topics. These flaws decrease quality, lower impact, slowdown the innovation process, and lead to frustration of authors, readers, and reviewers. In order to fix this, we propose a new peer review system termed paper bricks. Paper bricks has several advantages over the existing system including shorter publications, better competition for new ideas, as well as an accelerated innovation process. Furthermore, paper bricks may be implemented with minimal change to the existing peer review systems.

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cover image ACM SIGMOD Record
ACM SIGMOD Record  Volume 39, Issue 4
December 2010
32 pages
ISSN:0163-5808
DOI:10.1145/1978915
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Published: 06 May 2011
Published in SIGMOD Volume 39, Issue 4

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  • (2016)The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But the TruthACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems10.1145/298357438:4(1-20)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2016
  • (2015)Context-Aware Reviewer Assignment for Trust Enhanced Peer ReviewPLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.013049310:6(e0130493)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2015

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