Multicriteria Selection of Conference Manuscript Evaluation System Type Based on TOPSIS in Scientific Review Management

When managing scientific review, to organize its successful functioning, the conference committee needs not only to conduct correct reviewer assignment on manuscripts received, but to provide reviewers with a high-quality scientific work evaluation system. A scoring rubric or special instruction usually acts as this system. Several studies focus on developing and evaluating manuscript scoring rubrics, however, in the former the main emphasis is on the content and descriptive components of the scoring rubrics. They do not consider a preferred degree of detail of the scoring rubric. Also, in the current works, the impact of this manuscript evaluation system on all the review process stakeholders is not sufficiently taken into account. To close this gap, a method of multicriteria selection of a conference manuscript evaluation system type based on TOPSIS, is suggested in the paper. When testing the method for international conferences, the scoring rubric type that in general accommodates the interests of the main review process participants was defined.