Tags: * ARR does not decrease review load * improve matching * for discussion, author-reviewer * for discussion, reviewer-AC
"The document asserts that ARR has reduced peer review workload, but it provides no empirical evidence
for this assertion based on the experiment of using ARR. All the argumentation is based on first principles
that could have been asserted without even running the experiment. My personal experience of ARR is
that (1) the reviews on my submissions were about as good as before, maybe a bit less thoroughSEMICOLON
(2) my assignments as a reviewer were much less aligned with my expertiseSEMICOLON (3) the process of
reviewing was far less interactive and therefore less interestingSEMICOLON (4) the number of papers
that I have reviewed over the past year is about the same as it was before ARR. To the extent that effort
was reduced, it was mainly by eliminating interaction with other reviewers, ACs, and authors. I'm not
sure this is a good tradeoff."