Print Email Facebook Twitter Double-Blind Review in Software Engineering Venues Title Double-Blind Review in Software Engineering Venues: The Community’s Perspective Author Bacchelli, A. (TU Delft Software Engineering) Beller, M.M. (TU Delft Software Engineering) Date 2017 Abstract The peer review process is central to the scientific method, the advancement and spread of research, as well as crucial for individual careers. However, the single-blind review mode currently used in most Software Engineering (SE) venues is susceptible to apparent and hidden biases, since reviewers know the identity of authors. We perform a study on the benefits and costs that are associated with introducing double- blind review in SE venues. We surveyed the SE community’s opinion and interviewed experts on double-blind reviewing. Our results indicate that the costs, mostly logistic challenges and side effects, outnumber its benefits and mostly regard difficulty for authors in blinding papers, for reviewers in understanding the increment with respect to previous work from the same authors, and for organizers to manage a complex transition. While the surveyed community largely consents on the costs of DBR, only less than one-third disagree with a switch to DBR for SE journals, all SE conferences, and, in particular, ICSE; the analysis of a survey with authors of submitted papers at ICSE 2016 run by the program chairs of that edition corroborates our result. Subject double-blind reviewscientific publishingacademic community To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:449c0172-bb2e-40ac-a3a6-307b46cfa000 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.49 Publisher IEEE Computer Science, Los Alamitos, CA ISBN 978-1-5386-1589-8 Source Proceedings - IEEE/ACM 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ICSE-C 2017 Event ICSE 2017, 2017-05-20 → 2017-05-28, Buenos Aires, Argentina Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 A. Bacchelli, M.M. Beller Files PDF 1589a385.pdf 1.14 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:449c0172-bb2e-40ac-a3a6-307b46cfa000/datastream/OBJ/view