Peer review to select academic job applicants

Interactive Acquisition of Terminology Describing Job Applicants in Job Advertisements

There are several computer based job classification systems for the labour domain and the purpose of which mainly is to enable search and to collect statistics. The systems typically encode information about the job, the workplace , the employer, the salary, necessary education and experience, duration, hours, need for a driving licence etc. But actual job advertisements, for example such that ...

Blind Peer Review by Academic Journals

Predicting Academic Performance of MBA Program Applicants*

We report on an approach for aiding and strengthening the MBA admissions process that was used at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Multiple regression models were used to make predictions of the academic performance of an applicant, if admitted to the MBA program. Applicants who were predicted to have a “substantial chance” of an inadequate academic performance were consider...

A Middleware for Job Distribution in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Recently, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology has become important in designing (desktop) grids for large-scale distributed computing over the Internet. We present a middleware for distributed computing based on Peer-to-Peer systems. When combining public-resource computation ideas with concepts of P2P networks, new challenges occur due to the lack of global knowledge as there is no central administr...

Does the Committee Peer Review Select the Best Applicants for Funding? An Investigation of the Selection Process for Two European Molecular Biology Organization Programmes

Does peer review fulfill its declared objective of identifying the best science and the best scientists? In order to answer this question we analyzed the Long-Term Fellowship and the Young Investigator programmes of the European Molecular Biology Organization. Both programmes aim to identify and support the best post doctoral fellows and young group leaders in the life sciences. We checked the ...