Many scientific committees request participants in conferences, for example, to send their papers anonymous in to make sure that all papers are examined objectively. Academically speaking, does this really ensure fairness?
In other words, is it possible that the one may be rejected regardless the value of the work presented? ( Due to personal reasons s/he might have with the examiner )
There's a high probability that it is fair considering that examiner fulfills duty of evaluating paper without biasedness.
It is unlikely that one may be rejected regardless the value of work presented as the valuable work reflects the prestige of the entire committee.
But there are type 1 and type 2 error that can be made, therefore it is also likely but less likely that the content is rejected even when it is valuable.
Statistically evaluation along with multiple evaluation of the paper by multiple examiners is a process that works nicely.
This process or similar one is used almost everywhere to ensure fairness at it's best and an examiner can not simply reject a paper because of biasedness, as the paper when reevaluated reflects upon the examiner's status.
Hicham - any 'review' process can be subjective and good quality abstracts may be excluded. However, there needs to be some form of screening process. Conference organisers hopefully choose the best reviewers that they can to screen effectively for the best abstracts to be accepted.
Shubham & Dean dear sirs, thank you for your comments. Now I have a clear idea. However, I believe the case might not be the same as you already mentioned above in many Arabic countries, at least in Algeria, for instance.
No normally an anonymous paper is peer-reviewed blindly and may be accepted or rejected for academic reasons. If the author feels that he has an issue with the reviewers, he may tell the organising committee about it so that they avoid giving the paper to someone who wont be quite objective in his evaluations.
Depending on the conference, papers go through a peer-review process and the decision of the editor is made based on the reviewers' comments! Therefore, the quality and contribution of the paper would be the scale for acceptance or rejection!
@Mostashiri & @Abdelouafi
In case it is a journal, things r different as peer-reviewers may reject a paper written by non-native English writers for non master of d language regardées of thé scientificité content
Not being a non-native, no. Not mastering the légalement as natives do is a cause.
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