Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Cite-seeing and Reviewing: A Study on Citation Bias in Peer Review   Citations play an important role in researchers' careers as a key factor in
evaluation of scientific impact. Many anecdotes advice authors to exploit this
fact and cite prospective reviewers to try obtaining a more positive evaluation
for their submission. In this work, we investigate if such a citation bias
actually exists: Does the citation of a reviewer's own work in a submission
cause them to be positively biased towards the submission? In conjunction with
the review process of two flagship conferences in machine learning and
algorithmic economics, we execute an observational study to test for citation
bias in peer review. In our analysis, we carefully account for various
confounding factors such as paper quality and reviewer expertise, and apply
different modeling techniques to alleviate concerns regarding the model
mismatch. Overall, our analysis involves 1,314 papers and 1,717 reviewers and
detects citation bias in both venues we consider. In terms of the effect size,
by citing a reviewer's work, a submission has a non-trivial chance of getting a
higher score from the reviewer: an expected increase in the score is
approximately 0.23 on a 5-point Likert item. For reference, a one-point
increase of a score by a single reviewer improves the position of a submission
by 11% on average.

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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph