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一种新的同行评议方法的仿真研究

Simulation Study on a New Peer Review Approach

Florida State University(佛罗里达州立大学);Pevals LLC(佩瓦尔有限责任公司)

Albert Steppi, Jinchan Qu, Minjing Tao, Tingting Zhao, Xiaodong Pang, Jinfeng Zhang

摘要:

科学出版物和赠款申请的数量不断增加,给科学界带来了前所未有的沉重工作负担。因此,审查质量一直在下降,审查结果与文件和提案的实际价值之间的关联性越来越小。最近提出了一种新的分布式同行评审(DPR)方法来解决这些问题。新方法将提交提案(或论文)的主要研究者(PI)分配给同一个项目作为评审员。每个PI审查并排名少量(如七个)其他PI的建议。然后,使用修改的Borda计数(MBC),使用单个排名来估计所有提案的全局排名。在这项研究中,我们进行模拟研究,调查几个重要的决策参数时,采用这种新的方法。我们还提出了一种新的方法,称为一致性指数为基础的全球排名(CIGR)估计全球排名从个人的排名。设计了一种有效的模拟退火算法来搜索最优的一致性指数。此外,我们设计了一个新的平衡审查分配程序,这可以导致显着更好的性能MBC和CIGR方法。我们发现,当评论质量相对较高时,CIGR的表现优于MBC。由于综述质量和综述难度密切相关,我们在综述质量与综述难度的空间中构建了一个边界,该边界将CIGR优越区域和MBC优越区域分开。最后,我们提出了一个多阶段的DPR策略的基础上CIGR,这有可能大大提高整体的审查性能,同时减少审查工作量。

英文摘要:

The increasing volume of scientific publications and grant proposals has generated an unprecedentedly high workload to scientific communities. Consequently, review quality has been decreasing and review outcomes have become less correlated with the real merits of the papers and proposals. A novel distributed peer review (DPR) approach has recently been proposed to address these issues. The new approach assigns principal investigators (PIs) who submitted proposals (or papers) to the same program as reviewers. Each PI reviews and ranks a small number (such as seven) of other PIs' proposals. The individual rankings are then used to estimate a global ranking of all proposals using the Modified Borda Count (MBC). In this study, we perform simulation studies to investigate several parameters important for the decision making when adopting this new approach. We also propose a new method called Concordance Index-based Global Ranking (CIGR) to estimate global ranking from individual rankings. An efficient simulated annealing algorithm is designed to search the optimal Concordance Index (CI). Moreover, we design a new balanced review assignment procedure, which can result in significantly better performance for both MBC and CIGR methods. We found that CIGR performs better than MBC when the review quality is relatively high. As review quality and review difficulty are tightly correlated, we constructed a boundary in the space of review quality vs review difficulty that separates the CIGR-superior and MBC-superior regions. Finally, we propose a multi-stage DPR strategy based on CIGR, which has the potential to substantially improve the overall review performance while reducing the review workload.

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