An Algorithm to Determine Peer-Reviewers
<|reference_start|>An Algorithm to Determine Peer-Reviewers: The peer-review process is the most widely accepted certification mechanism for officially accepting the written results of researchers within the scientific community. An essential component of peer-review is the identification of competent referees to review a submitted manuscript. This article presents an algorithm to automatically determine the most appropriate reviewers for a manuscript by way of a co-authorship network data structure and a relative-rank particle-swarm algorithm. This approach is novel in that it is not limited to a pre-selected set of referees, is computationally efficient, requires no human-intervention, and, in some instances, can automatically identify conflict of interest situations. A useful application of this algorithm would be to open commentary peer-review systems because it provides a weighting for each referee with respects to their expertise in the domain of a manuscript. The algorithm is validated using referee bid data from the 2005 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.<|reference_end|>
@article{rodriguez2006an,
    title={An Algorithm to Determine Peer-Reviewers},
    author={Marko A. Rodriguez, Johan Bollen},
    journal={Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM,
  pages 319-328, (October 2008)},
    year={2006},
    doi={10.1145/1458082.1458127},
    number={LA-UR-06-2261},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0605112},
    primaryClass={cs.DL cs.AI cs.DS}
}