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Title:
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CAN CITATIONS PREDICT SOCIO-COGNITIVE RELATIONSHIPS IN PEER REVIEW SYSTEM? |
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Author(s):
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Muhammad Salman Khan |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-23-6 |
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Editors:
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António Palma dos Reis and Ajith P. Abraham |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Conflict of interest, peer review, socio-cognitive. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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20 |
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Last Page:
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27 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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Peer review in scientific communications plays an important role in the advancement of any given field of study. However, different sorts of conflict of interest (COI) situations between authors and reviewers can compromise the review decision. Current COI detection systems primarily rely on co-authors networks, inferred from publicly available bibliographic databases. However, different citations relationships have also been claimed to be indicative of various social, cognitive and socio-cognitive relationships between authors. This can be useful for those hidden relationships that can not be handled by traditional systems. As a first step to integrate citations as an indicator of potential COI, this study investigates to find any pattern in citations that can predict existence or non-existence of socio-cognitive relationships. The experiments conducted could not clearly classify citations relationships as a predictor of socio-cognitive links between authors. However, it was found that the probability of socio-cognitive contacts increases with the increase in citations relationships strength between authors. This probability in turn can outline the highly probable candidate cases for COI. |
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