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Effectiveness of Anonymization in Double-Blind Review

Effectiveness of Anonymization in Double-Blind Review

In a controlled experiment with two disjoint program committees, the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'17) found that reviewers with author information were 1.76x more likely to recommend acceptance of papers from famous authors, and 1.67x more likely to recommend acceptance of papers from top institutions.

A free collaborative knowledgebase

A free collaborative knowledgebase

Unnoticed by most of its readers, Wikipedia continues to undergo dramatic changes, as its sister project Wikidata introduces a new multilingual "Wikipedia for data" to manage the factual information of the popular online encyclopedia.

Openism, IPism, Fundamentalism, and Pragmatism

Openism, IPism, Fundamentalism, and Pragmatism

On the importance of remaining pragmatic due to the risk of collapsing the entire publishing system in an effort to improve it.

How to build a bad research center

How to build a bad research center

Eight commandments on how to build a bad research center.