分析审稿意见情感对多轮审稿时长的影响，发现正面评价可缩短审稿周期。
Which Review Aspect Has a Greater Impact on the Duration of Open Peer Review in Multiple Rounds? -- Evidence from Nature Communications
- 从审稿意见中提取细粒度维度并分析情感倾向。
- 评价与结果、研究价值等维度的情感越正向，审稿时长越短。
- 适用于希望高效修改稿件的作者及提升审稿效率的编辑和审稿人。
同行评审是科学出版的核心环节，但投稿量激增给审稿人和编辑带来巨大压力。本文研究特定审稿维度的情感倾向与审稿时长的关系，并考察该关系在不同学科和审稿轮次间的差异，旨在支持针对性稿件修改并提升评审效率。采用两阶段方法：首先从审稿报告中提取细粒度维度，并利用情感分类模型识别各维度的情感；其次分析维度级情感与审稿时长的相关性，并计算各轮次的情感得分以判断关系是否随轮次变化。结果显示，审稿情感与审稿时长呈微弱但显著的负相关，即正面评价往往伴随更短的审稿周期。其中，评价与结果、影响与研究价值等维度的相关性相对更强。此外，不同审稿轮次间该关系存在显著差异。本研究将审稿报告文本内容与评审时间特征关联，识别出与审稿时长更相关的维度，为作者优先修改提供依据，并协助审稿人与编辑优化评审流程，有助于减轻评审负担，加速学术传播。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Purpose: Peer review is essential to scientific publishing, but increasing submission volumes have placed growing pressure on reviewers and editors. This study examines the relationship between sentiment toward specific review aspects and peer review duration. It also investigates how this relationship varies across disciplines and review rounds, with the aim of supporting targeted manuscript revision and improving review efficiency. Design/methodology/approach: We adopt a two-stage approach. First, fine-grained aspects are extracted from peer review reports, and a sentiment classification model is used to determine the sentiment associated with each aspect. Second, correlations between aspect-level sentiment and peer review duration are analyzed. Sentiment scores are also calculated for different review rounds to determine whether these relationships change over successive rounds. Findings: Review sentiment has a weak but statistically significant negative correlation with peer review duration, indicating that more positive reviews tend to be associated with shorter review periods. Aspects concerning Evaluation and Results and Impact and Research Value show relatively stronger correlations with review duration. The relationships between aspect-level sentiment and review duration also differ significantly across review rounds. Originality/value: This study connects the textual content of peer review reports with the temporal characteristics of the review process. By identifying review aspects that are more closely associated with review duration, it provides evidence that may help authors prioritize revisions and assist reviewers and editors in improving review efficiency. The findings contribute to reducing the burden of peer review and accelerating scholarly communication and knowledge dissemination.
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