ISCA Review Ethics

  • Reviewers must treat all submissions as strictly confidential and destroy all papers once the technical program has been finalized.
  • Reviewers must review their paper assignments themselves and provide unbiased reviews.
  • Reviewers must contact the PC chair if they feel there is an ethical violation of any sort (e.g., authors seeking support for a paper, authors seeking to identify who the reviewers are).
  • Reviewers are not allowed to actively look for author identities. Reviewers should judge a paper solely on its merits.
  • Reviewers should review the current submission, and not judge previous versions of the paper they may have reviewed for other venues.

Expectations

ISCA 2020 PC/ERC members and other reviewers are not allowed to:

  • Solicit external reviews of submitted papers from third parties, including their own students. Reviewers who have any reason to request a third-party review should contact the PC chair for third-party assignment.
  • Discuss the content of a submitted paper with anyone other than unconflicted reviewers of the paper, PC/ERC members, and the PC chair during the review period (from now until paper publication in any venue).
  • Discuss the content of reviews, including the reviewers' identities, with anyone other than unconflicted reviewers of the paper, PC/ERC members, and PC chair during the review period (from now until paper publication in any venue).
  • Reveal the name of paper authors in case reviewers happen to be aware of author identity. (Author names of accepted papers will be revealed after the PC meeting; author names of rejected papers will never be revealed.)
  • Disclose the outcome of a paper until its authors are notified of its acceptance or rejection.
  • Disclose the content of a paper until its publication.
  • Disclose the content of reviews, including the reviewers' identities, or discussions about a paper until its publication. After publication, reviewers, PC/ERC members, and the PC chair are allowed to discuss their own opinions of a paper, but not the content of others' reviews or any PC/ERC discussion about the papers.

Acknowledgments

This set of review ethics is derived and based on the ASPLOS 2020 review ethics.