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- From: pat@cs.strath.ac.uk (Patrick Prosser)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai
- Subject: Re: New Problems in IJCAI Reviewing (long)
- Message-ID: <11422@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:12:05 GMT
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- >Surely, it is up to a reviewer to send back any paper to an editor
- >when the reviewer feels he/she cannot referee that paper
- >without bias towards/against the author; the latter in a situation where
- >the work the paper reports is in direct competetion with that of the reviewer.
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- >Hyacinth Nwana
-
- Surely, in that case, no paper could be competently reviewed. If
- you are an expert in the field, and the paper is in the same area,
- then there must be some element of competition.
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- Patrick
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