Referee Recommendations

This paper quantitatively analyzes referee recommendations at eight prominent economics and finance journals, and the SFS (Society for Financial Studies) Cavalcade Conference, where a known algorithm matched referees to submissions. The behavior of referees was similar in all venues. The referee-spe...

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Published in:The Review of financial studies 2014-09, Vol.27 (9), p.2773-2804
Main Author: Welch, Ivo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Analysis
Coefficients
Committees
Content analysis
Economics
Finance
Inference
International economics
Modeling
Periodicals
Probabilities
Publishing
Recommendations
Simulations
Studies
Universities
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Summary:This paper quantitatively analyzes referee recommendations at eight prominent economics and finance journals, and the SFS (Society for Financial Studies) Cavalcade Conference, where a known algorithm matched referees to submissions. The behavior of referees was similar in all venues. The referee-specific component in the disposition recommendation was about twice as important as the common component. Referees differed both in their scales (some referees were intrinsically more generous than others) and in their opinions of what a good paper was (they often disagreed about the relative ordering of papers).
ISSN:0893-9454
1465-7368
DOI:10.1093/rfs/hhu029