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| CFP selection committee | |
|---|---|
| Name | CFP selection committee |
| Type | Advisory committee |
| Purpose | Selection and review of proposals for conferences, journals, grants |
| Region | International |
| Established | Varied by host organization |
CFP selection committee
A CFP selection committee reviews submissions to a call for papers issued by conferences, journals, symposia, funding bodies, and workshops. Typical participants include program chairs, editorial board members, peer reviewers, and institutional representatives from universities, research institutes, and professional societies. Committees operate within procedural frameworks influenced by traditions at institutions such as Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Historical Association, Royal Society, and National Science Foundation.
A committee convened for a call for papers often aligns with standards set by organizations like Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, International Conference on Machine Learning, American Philosophical Society, Modern Language Association, and European Research Council. Many use submission platforms developed or adopted by entities such as EasyChair, OpenReview, ScholarOne, and CMT (Conference Management Toolkit). Interactions among members draw on professional networks tied to universities like Harvard University, Stanford University, University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Cambridge as well as associations including American Association for the Advancement of Science and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Members include program chairs, area chairs, meta-reviewers, and external referees from organizations such as IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computational Linguistics, American Chemical Society, and Royal Geographical Society. Responsibilities cover initial triage, peer review assignment, meta-review synthesis, and final selection often guided by editorial policies from journals like Nature, Science (journal), The Lancet, and Journal of the American Medical Association. Committees coordinate acceptance notifications, revisions, and scheduling with event organizers such as SIGGRAPH, ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations), ACL Anthology, and exhibition venues like Palais des Congrès de Paris.
Selection of members often involves nominations, elections, or appointments by bodies such as university faculties, learned societies, and funding agencies including Wellcome Trust, European Commission, National Institutes of Health, and John Templeton Foundation. Committees seek disciplinary balance across fields represented at venues like American Sociological Association, Association for Psychological Science, Institute of Physics, and American Mathematical Society. Diversity goals reference policies from institutions including Equality and Human Rights Commission, National Science Board, Council of Europe, and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Evaluation practices reflect peer review models used by journals and conferences such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Communications of the ACM, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and European Journal of Political Research. Common criteria include originality, methodological rigor, relevance to the theme set by hosts like SIGKDD, CHI (conference), Society for Neuroscience, and American Physical Society, and clarity comparable to standards at PLOS, Frontiers, and arXiv. Procedures span single-blind, double-blind, and open review modalities exemplified by Nature Communications, Royal Society Open Science, and PeerJ.
Codes of conduct and conflict of interest policies derive from models at Committee on Publication Ethics, Office of Research Integrity, European Research Council Ethics Review, and institutional review boards at universities such as Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University, and University of California, Berkeley. Ethical safeguards include disclosure forms, recusal processes, and anonymized review workflows used by venues like IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, and SSRN.
Models range from centralized program committees used by NeurIPS (formerly NIPS), distributed area committees seen at ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), editorial boards of journals like Oxford University Press, and ad hoc panels for thematic workshops organized by institutions such as Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Aspen Institute. Hybrid models integrate community review approaches pioneered by platforms like OpenReview and post-publication commentary practiced at bioRxiv and medRxiv.
Common challenges mirror issues addressed by reports from National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, RAND Corporation, Pew Research Center, and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: reviewer workload, bias mitigation, reproducibility, and transparency. Best practices include rotating membership modeled after panels at National Institutes of Health, anonymized triage inspired by Wellcome Trust pilot programs, and training interventions similar to initiatives by COPE and professional development at IEEE Educational Activities. Continuous improvement often references benchmarking against flagship venues such as AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, European Conference on Computer Vision, American Economic Association, and International Sociological Association.
Category:Academic publishing governance