Final Project Idea
29 Mar 2022
Overview
The problem: Journal editors and conference chairs find it increasingly difficult to find reviewers for publication manuscripts. At the same time, researchers receive an overwhelming number of invitations to review papers.
The solution: We propose a platform that better matches papers for review with potential reviewers by pooling researchers with similar interests together. Editors/chairs can post abstracts in need of review and researchers can select abstracts of papers they’d like to review.
Approach
Users can register on the platform and complete a profile as a researcher (for reviewing) and/or for editor/chair (to publish abstracts). Researchers can join focus area groups and submit interest to review a paper.
The application has two user roles:
- Regular users: create research papers, edit their own research papers, search for research papers, review research papers
- Admin users: same as basic regular users, edit all research papers, edit user permissions, and moderate research papers
Some possible mockup pages include:
- Researcher profile listing page
- Publisher profile listing page
- Research papers listing page, filterable by interest, field, etc.
- Research paper page, including abstract, full draft if allowed, etc.
Use case ideas
Whether or not the following bullet points list all pages or not, the completed use case should show an end-to-end scenario of using the system.
- Existing user goes to landing page, logs in, gets home page, then (1) searches for research papers to review (2) reviews research paper, or (3) posts a new research paper.
- New user goes to landing page, registers, gets profile setup page, completes profile setup (sets interests, specialities, field of research, etc.), gets home page, follows remainder of flow from existing users.
- Admin user goes to landing page, logs in, gets admin home page, reviews flagged material.
Beyond the basics
After implementing the basic functionality, here are ideas for more advanced features:
- Email notifications about papers to review
- Flag content as inappropriate
- Recommendations for papers to review
- Recommendations of reviewers for a paper
- Receiving copies of papers and submitting reviews (or just redirecting to journal/conference review platforms)
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