Course Name: pReview – Course in Reviewing
Research Papers
Credits: One course point.
Examiner: the pReview responsible (currently
Description: The purpose of the course is to give insight and
experience in reviewing research papers. This is achieved by both submitting a
paper for review and take part of these reviews, and by reviewing other papers.
To participate in the course, you are required to join the pReview group at the
department (which exists independently of this course). You join the pReview
group by sending an e-mail to preview@ide.mdh.se and you will be added to the
pReview list. You will also receive an acknowledgement of your participation.
As a pReview member, you may submit articles (to that mailing address) at any
time. The articles will be reviewed by three reviewers. You will also, from
time to time, be asked to review articles written by other pReview members. The
review should as a rule of thumb be completed within five working days, but the
actual desired deadline should be specified by the person submitting an
article. When submitting to pReview, you should also provide a link to the
conference the paper will be submitted to. If you for some reason cannot review
a paper when asked, you may just return the request and we will find another
reviewer. The original idea is that papers submitted to pReview are in an
almost-finished state, as the final step taken just before making the real
submission, but it is allowed to try slightly other uses of the system, such as
testing a paper not yet scheduled for any particular conference at all, or
improving a rejected paper or an already-accepted paper.
As part of the course (but not an ordinary part of the pReview system) you are
required to use this template for your written review – in
addition, you may have made notes on a printed version of the paper which you
should also give to the author. You are also required to arrange and
participate in a review meeting for the paper you have submitted or reviewed. The
meeting is to be moderated by a senior researcher (the course examiner or some
other senior researcher who reports this to the examiner). Note that you are
responsible to arrange this meeting. Since not everyone in pReview are taking
the course, it may happen that not everyone involved in one paper review has
time to participate in such a meeting – or that you are unable to find a time
that suits everyone. The minimum requirement is that at least the author and
one reviewer meet, and that there is one senior researcher present, who could
be either of these two (author, reviewer), or an external moderator.
You have earned your course point when you have processed four papers according
to these instructions, at least one of which you are author and at least one review.
Notify the examiner (e.g. via email to preview@ide.mdh.se), who will give you your course point.
You may do this twice (i.e. processed eight papers in total) to earn in total
two points.
Note that it is ultimately your main supervisor who approves this point as part
of your PhD studies.
Please provide feedback to these instructions and the template.
2007-04-03 (slight update 2008-03-11)