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most citedMitigating Manipulation in Peer Review via Randomized Reviewer Assignments

23 citations · 32 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.SI2024

On the Detection of Reviewer-Author Collusion Rings From Paper Bidding

Steven Jecmen, Nihar B. Shah, Fei Fang +1

A major threat to the peer-review systems of computer science conferences is the existence of "collusion rings" between reviewers. In such collusion rings, reviewers who have also…

cs.SI2023

A One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Improving Randomness in Paper Assignment

Yixuan Even Xu, Steven Jecmen, Zimeng Song +1

The assignment of papers to reviewers is a crucial part of the peer review processes of large publication venues, where organizers (e.g., conference program chairs) rely on algorit…

cs.HC2023

Testing for Reviewer Anchoring in Peer Review: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Ryan Liu, Steven Jecmen, Vincent Conitzer +2

Peer review frequently follows a process where reviewers first provide initial reviews, authors respond to these reviews, then reviewers update their reviews based on the authors'…

cs.IR2023

Counterfactual Evaluation of Peer-Review Assignment Policies

Martin Saveski, Steven Jecmen, Nihar B. Shah +1

Peer review assignment algorithms aim to match research papers to suitable expert reviewers, working to maximize the quality of the resulting reviews. A key challenge in designing…

cs.AI2022★ 4 cited

Tradeoffs in Preventing Manipulation in Paper Bidding for Reviewer Assignment

Steven Jecmen, Nihar B. Shah, Fei Fang +1

Many conferences rely on paper bidding as a key component of their reviewer assignment procedure. These bids are then taken into account when assigning reviewers to help ensure tha…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

A Dataset on Malicious Paper Bidding in Peer Review

Steven Jecmen, Minji Yoon, Vincent Conitzer +2

In conference peer review, reviewers are often asked to provide "bids" on each submitted paper that express their interest in reviewing that paper. A paper assignment algorithm the…

cs.GT2022★ 4 cited

Strategyproofing Peer Assessment via Partitioning: The Price in Terms of Evaluators' Expertise

Komal Dhull, Steven Jecmen, Pravesh Kothari +1

Strategic behavior is a fundamental problem in a variety of real-world applications that require some form of peer assessment, such as peer grading of homeworks, grant proposal rev…

cs.AI2021

Near-Optimal Reviewer Splitting in Two-Phase Paper Reviewing and Conference Experiment Design

Steven Jecmen, Hanrui Zhang, Ryan Liu +3

Many scientific conferences employ a two-phase paper review process, where some papers are assigned additional reviewers after the initial reviews are submitted. Many conferences a…

cs.AI2020★ 23 cited

Mitigating Manipulation in Peer Review via Randomized Reviewer Assignments

Steven Jecmen, Hanrui Zhang, Ryan Liu +3

We consider three important challenges in conference peer review: (i) reviewers maliciously attempting to get assigned to certain papers to provide positive reviews, possibly as pa…