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The illusion of neutrality in metric-based research evaluation
Fengyuan Liu, Hazem Ibrahim, Yasir Zaki +1
Venue prestige and citation counts are two widely used, albeit imperfect, signals of research quality. When the two signals conflict, evaluators must decide how much weight to assi…
Bias at the Borderline: Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt in Peer Review?
Hazem Ibrahim, Talal Rahwan, Yasir Zaki
We study peer review at ICLR, a large machine-learning conference whose complete review record, including rejected submissions, is public. Reviewers score each submission; for the…
Causal evidence of racial and institutional biases in accessing paywalled articles and scientific data
Hazem Ibrahim, Fengyuan Liu, Khalid Mengal +4
Scientific progress depends on researchers' ability to access and build upon the work of others. Yet, much published work remains behind expensive paywalls, and even accessible art…
Current policies governing editorial conflicts of interest are ineffective
Fengyuan Liu, Bedoor AlShebli, Talal Rahwan
Research-active editors face a potential conflict of interest (COI) when handling submissions from authors who share the same affiliation or those who recently collaborated with th…
The Preeminence of Ethnic Diversity in Scientific Collaboration
Bedoor K AlShebli, Talal Rahwan, Wei Lee Woon
Inspired by the social and economic benefits of diversity, we analyze over 9 million papers and 6 million scientists to study the relationship between research impact and five clas…