Peer Review Finder Website

Project Overview

For my graduate software engineering class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, we were tasked with creating a website to help researchers find other researchers to peer review papers before submitting to a conference or journal. Users of the website are rewarded with tokens by completing high quality reviews, which can be used to submit their own papers for review, thus promoting a “giving back” community, and preventing someone from only submitting papers and never completing reviews.

Peer Review Finder’s GitHub Project Home Page

My Contributions

Since our team had a wide range of skills, and I had much more programming experience than some of the other group members, I took a team lead and support role. Keeping my programming tasks light, I was able to spend time looking ahead to ensure that we were on track to meet milestone deliverables, and assist teammates that were having trouble getting things working.

Team Dynamic

Being comprised of graduate students, everyone contributed and was attentive with regards to group communication. We did have a little hiccup with one of the group members, who received reassignment orders in the middle of the project, but everyone else picked up the slack and kept the project on track.

Conclusion

This project has a lot of potential. Although the time we had to work on it was short, I think that our team produced a decent prototype. Meteor, while okay for prototyping, is not something that I would consider using in a production environment; there are too many security vulnerabilities that far outweigh the conveniences of the framework.