Peer Review & Publishing Ethics
- A Guide for New Program Committee Members at Theoretical Computer Science Conferences - A guide that helps new program-committee members to understand how the system works, and provides useful tips and guidelines.
- A Guide for New Referees in Theoretical Computer Science - Advice about peer reviewing research publication drafts, for students and other inexperienced referees, by Ian Parberry.
- After grad student suicide, misconduct findings, university suspends professor - A cautionary tale and a recount of events that exposed a serious case of research fraud.
- Beall's List - A list of potential predatory journals and publishers to avoid.
- Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Computer Science Research - Experiences discovering attempts to subvert the peer-review process, by Michael L. Littman.
- Cornell Food Researcher's Downfall Raises Larger Questions For Science - This should be the cautionary tale discussed in Research Methods 101 across many disciplines.
- Green, Gold, and Diamond Open Access - A guide to understanding the different publication access models, by open-access.network.
- How NOT to review a paper - A delightful exposition about reviewing, from the perspective of the adversarial reviewer; by Graham Cormode.
- Low-CO₂ research paper - An initiative to draw emphasis to low environmental impact of research work.
- Mistakes Reviewers Make - Reducing the learning curve for new reviewers, and helping them improve their reviewing, through exposing some common mistakes, by Niklas Elmqvist.
- No free view? No review! - A public pledge to abstain from peer reviewing for editors who hide publications behind paywalls.
- Reviewer-Author Collusion Rings and How to Fight Them - A list of measures to prevent and mitigate potential collusion rings, by Andreas Zeller.
- Some Lessons on Reviews and Rebuttals - Advice about writing reviews and review rebuttals, by David Stutz.
- The Task of the Referee - A structured framework for evaluating drafts and writing referee reports (reviews), by A.J. Smith.