How NOT to review a paper: the tools and techniques of the adversarial reviewer

There are several useful guides available for how to review a paper in Computer Science [10, 6, 12, 7, 2]. These are soberly presented, carefully reasoned and sensibly argued. As a result, they are not much fun. So, as a contrast, this note is a checklist of how not to review a paper. It details techniques that are unethical, unfair, or just plain nasty. Since in Computer Science we often present arguments about how an adversary would approach a particular problem, this note describes the adversary's strategy.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: Graham Cormode
• Keywords: Computer Science, Database, SIGMOD 2008