A large scale randomized controlled trial on herding in peer-review discussions.

ABSTRACT: Peer review is the backbone of academia and humans constitute a cornerstone of this process, being responsible for reviewing submissions and making the final acceptance/rejection decisions. Given that human decision-making is known to be susceptible to various cognitive biases, it is important to understand which (if any) biases are present in the peer-review process, and design the pipeline such that the impact of these biases is minimized. In this work, we focus on the dynamics of discussions between reviewers and investigate the presence of herding behaviour therein. Specifically, we aim to understand whether reviewers and discussion chairs get disproportionately influenced by the first argument presented in the discussion when (in case of reviewers) they form an independent opinion abo

SUBMITTER: Stelmakh I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10337975 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature