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arXiv:1102.3523cs.DL

PaperBricks: An Alternative to Complete-Story Peer Reviewing

Jens Dittrich

Abstract

The peer review system as used in several computer science communities has several flaws including long review times, overloaded reviewers, as well as fostering of niche topics. These flaws decrease quality, lower impact, slowdown the innovation process, and lead to frustration of authors, readers, and reviewers. In order to fix this, we propose a new peer review system termed paper bricks. Paper bricks has several advantages over the existing system including shorter publications, better competition for new ideas, as well as an accelerated innovation process. Furthermore, paper bricks may be implemented with minimal change to the existing peer review systems.

arXiv comments
refined proposal of my CIDR 2011 Gong Show presentation
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cs.DLDigital Libraries

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  1. GitWikXiv: Toward a successor to the academic paper 2 comments

    • I've always hoped that the PaperBricks, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3523 model would catch on. My summary of the idea: There is an awful lot of redundancy and wasted effort that goes into most papers. From introductions that need to be rewritten every time (when linking to a solid…

      jsweojtjView on HNParent context

    • TL;DR for PaperBricks: "Formalize the structure of papers, such that each paper is composed of one or many (clearly marked) of the following "sections" ("bricks"): symbol description my description "I" Introduction ("domain intro") "PS" Problem Statement ("specific problem")…

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  2. Academic Urban Legends 1 comment

    • While I can imagine that being amazing if that could be done well, but it seems like a really difficult problem to get right. I would prefer an approach like PaperBricks caught on instead: http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3523 -- where a single section of a current paper could be…

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