2011/02/17 by Jens Dittrich, Dittrich, Jens · 1 voice
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Systems Education and Curriculum Development #Scientific Computing and Data Management #Software Testing and Debugging Techniques #cs.DL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1102.3523
refined proposal of my CIDR 2011 Gong Show presentation
arxiv created 2011/02/17 · openalex publication_date 2011/02/17 · arxiv published 2011/02/17 · arxiv updated 2015/03/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.