Selection of qualified reviewers and avoiding conflicts of interest within the issue of compromised peer review in paper retractions using an ontology-based decision support system
by Mymoona Dawood Abdulmalek Al-Hidabi; Yunli Lee; Zaharin Yusoff; Phoey Lee Teh; Wai Chong Chia; Chukwudi Uwasomba
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO), Vol. 16, No. 4, 2023

Abstract: Paper retractions are rising due to the absence of reliable tools to detect and identify fraudulent articles before publication. This paper proposes an ontology-based decision support system to prevent compromised peer review by carefully selecting qualified reviewers and avoiding potential conflicts of interest. There are three main contributions: (i) formulating the criteria for the selection of qualified reviewers as well as for recognising potential conflicts of interest; (ii) designing the ontology-based decision support system; (iii) designing and performing the methodology for validation. A pilot test with 30 computer science experts is conducted to determine qualified reviewers and conflict criteria, including the design of ontologies structure. Subsequently, three selected computer science experts and journal editors are requested to evaluate a set of test data as the ground truth. Overall results show that the proposed solution achieves 91% accuracy in qualified reviewer selection and 94% accuracy in conflict-of-interest detection.

Online publication date: Fri, 30-Aug-2024

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