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- From: an3329@anon.penet.fi
- Subject: Re: Ethical question about reviewing papers for a conference
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.213858.5540@fuug.fi>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 02:18:54 GMT
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- solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan9.113916.27542@fuug.fi>, an3329@anon.penet.fi writes:
- >|> I'm a graduate student and I have a bit of a problem
- >|> with my advisor. He gave me some papers to referee,
- >|> and these papers were submitted to a conference to
- >|> which I have also submitted a paper. The problem is
- >|> that these papers are very similar to the paper which
- >|> I submitted, and so they will be competing directly
- >|> against my paper. I told him that I could not act as
- >|> an impartial reviewer, and I asked to have someone else
- >|> review the papers, but he refused. (He is also the
- >|> conference co-chairman).
- >
- >The proper thing to do is ask the conference chairman. If he says it is OK
- >then it is OK. The responsibility for guaranteeing an impartial reviewing
- >system rests with the conference chairmen. It is their responsibility to
- >consider your bias (after you bring it to their attention.). If you made
- >your advisor aware of the conflict of interest and he said that you should
- >still review the papers, do so. It is likely that were your review out of
- >line with those of the other referees, your bias would be taken into account.
-
- That seems like reasonable advice, but I've received conflicting
- advice over in soc.college.grad to refuse to review the papers.
- Could you perhaps come over there and offer your opinion
- on their advice? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
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