Referee selection is critical to the review process, and we base our choice on many factors, including expertise, reputation, specific recommendations and our own previous experience of a referee's characteristics.
But three years later, both clubs were mired in the league-wide calciopoli, or "footballville," scandal, in which various Italian club directors were alleged to have influenced referee selection for matches.
Referee selection is critical to the review process, and the Editorial Board Member should base his or her choice on many factors, including expertise, specific recommendations and previous experience.
"If Premier Rugby wants to look at my selection, it should also look at their referee selection," he said, still spluttering over some of the calls made by the Leicestershire official Martin Fox, including the disallowing of an early try by the eye-catching young centre Will Addison.
Blunders, who to expect in Brazil, and an overview of the FIFA referee selection process.
Cuban berated officials, stared down NBA Commissioner David Stern, uttered profanities in response to questions from reporters, and criticized the NBA's playoff referee selection process.
However, reviewer assignment is not a random draw nor without consequence; the selection of a given reviewer can affect the fate of a paper and the importance of referee selection has been critically overlooked [8].
We apply due diligence in referee selection and we have a policy to follow-up formally on any concrete evidence of undeclared referee conflict of interest (although this has thankfully not been necessary yet at this journal).
Computational methods can facilitate this task and additionally, introduce an element of fairness into the process of referee selection as the same objective test is applied to every author to determine their adequacy as reviewer.
Another way in which editors contribute to publication bias was explained by the fact that "we have so many articles coming through... there is an element of pre-refereed selection of papers that never get to a referee".
